Ashira D. Blazer MD MSCI (She/Her)

PubMed

• Where You Live Shouldn't Dictate Your Care: Multilateral Strategies Are Needed for National and Regional Equity in Psoriatic Arthritis Treatment.
  Jihwan Hwang, Ashira Blazer, Irene Blanco
  Arthritis & Rheumatology. 2026-01-29
• A 20-year reflection on women in rheumatology.
  Ashira D Blazer, Grace C Wright
  Nature Reviews. Rheumatology. 2025-11-01
• Identifying High-Impact Solutions to Address Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Lupus: A Consensus-Based Approach.
  Joy Buie, Michael P Fisher, Kristen Backor, Hannah Tyldsley, Ashira Blazer
  Arthritis Care & Research. 2025-08-25

Journal Articles

• Apolipoprotein L1 risk variants associate with prevalent atherosclerotic disease in African American systemic lupus erythematosus patients  
  Blazer A, Wang B, Simpson D, Kirchhoff T, Heffron S, Clancy RM, Heguy A, Ray K, Snuderl M, Buyon JP, PLoS One, 1/1/2017
• ApoL1 and the Immune Response of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus  
  Blazer AD, Clancy RM, Curr Rheumatol Rep, 1/1/2017

Abstracts/Posters

• Apolipoprotein L1 Risk Variants Associate with Poor Renal Outcomes, Damage Accrual, and Death: A Prospective Ghanaian SLE Cohort
  Ashira Blazer MD, Ida Dzifa Dey MD, Margret Reynolds, Festus Ankrah, Nancyanne Schmidt MD, Robert Clancy PhD, Jill Buyon MD, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/22/2018
• Apolipoprotein L1 Risk Variants, Renal Histopathology, and Prognosis in African American SLE Nephritis Patients: A Cohort Study
  Ashira Blazer, Ming Wu, Nancyanne Schmidt, Alana Engelbrecht, Feng-Xia Liang, Robert Clancy, Jill Buyon, and H. Michael Belmont, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/21/2018
• Interferon-Induced APOL1 Over-Expression Causes Autophagic Dysfunction and Mitochondrial Stress in Risk Variant-Carrying Endothelial Cells
  Ashira Blazer MD, Sara E Rasmussen, Androo J Markham, Shilpi Mehta-Lee MD, Jill P Buyon, Robert Clancy PhD, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/8/2017

Lectures

• Am I Equipped to Make an Impact in Global Medicine? 
  1/1/2019
• Cardiovascular Comorbidities in SLE: Disparities, Diagnosis, and Prevention 
  1/1/2019
• Apolipoprotein L1 Polymorphisms and Their Implications for Organ Damage in SLE 
  1/1/2019

Other

• How Doctors Deal with Racist Patients 
  Ashira Blazer, Wall Street Journal
  https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-doctors-deal-with-racist-patients-1516633710
  1/1/2018
• Lupus Management Considerations for African American Patients 
  Ashira Blazer, reachMD.com
  https://reachmd.com/profiles/ashira-blazer-md/j3Ygr0/
  1/1/2018
• Rheumatoid Arthritis 
  Ashira Blazer, healthination.com
  https://www.healthination.com/about/ashira-blazer
  1/1/2018