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photo Siamak Moghadam-Kia, MD, MPH

Rheumatology

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Staff Rheumatologist-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Staff Rheumatologist-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Email: moghaddamkias@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-383-8123
Contact
Office: Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower-South
3500 Terrace Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
 
Phone: 412-383-8123
Fax: 412-383-8864
E-mail: moghaddamkias@upmc.edu
Administrative Assistant:
Mackenzie Martin
Address: Biomedical Science Tower, South - 7th Floor
3500 Terrace Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Email: mtm144@pitt.edu
Phone: 412-383-8123
Fax: 412-383-8753
Education and Training
Education
M.D., Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2003
M.P.H., University of Pittsburgh, 2015
Training
Residency: Internal Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center, 2012
Fellowship: Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 2014
Research Interest
Dr. Moghadam-Kia’s interests are inflammatory myopathies: biomarker clinical studies
Clinical Interest
Inflammatory myopathies
Cutaneous manifestations of systemic rheumatic disease
Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD)
Rheumatoid arthritis
Spondyloarthritis
Educational Interest
Rheumatology Course Director/Content Lead, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Teaching and training rheumatology fellows and medicine residents
Update in Internal Medicine, Course Director, University of Pittsburgh
Publications
For my complete bibliography, Click Here.
Selected Publications:
Moghadam-Kia, S., Oddis, C.V. Myositis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease. Revista Colombiana de Reumatología (English Edition). 2023; In press.
Saygin, D., Biswas, P., Nouraie, S., Ren, D., Moghadam-Kia, S., McGeachy, M., Oddis, C., Dzanko, S., Koontz, D., Ascherman, D., Aggarwal, R. Serum Cytokine Profiles of Patients with Adult Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies. Clinexprheumatol (In Press). 2023.
Sen, P., Naveen, R., Houshmand, N., Moghadam-Kia, S., Joshi, S., Saha, S., Jagtap, K., Agarwal, V., Nune, A., Nikiphorou, E., Tan, A.L., Shinjo, S.K., Ziade, N., Velikova, T., Milchert, M., Parodis, I., Edgar Gracia-Ramos, A., Cavagna, L., et al. Vaccine hesitancy decreases, long term concerns remain in myositis, rheumatic disease patients: A comparative analysis of the COVAD surveys. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2023 Feb 3:kead057. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kead057. PMID: 36734536. 2023; Epub ahead of print.
Yamaguchi, K., Poland, P., George, T.B., Saygin, D., Moghadam-Kia, S., Aggarwal, R., Oddis, C.V., Zhu, L., Ascherman, D.P. Correlation between B cell epitope profile and clinical features of anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis. Rheumatology (Oxford). Oct 10:kead550. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kead550. 2023; Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37815819.
Adeghate, J., Bonhomme, G., Indermill, C., Taylor, S., Rocha, M., Moghadam-Kia, S., Errera, M. Retinal neovascularization in Susac’s syndrome: A rare imaging finding. Oman J Ophthalmol (In Press). 2023.
Oldroyd, AGS., Callen, J.P., Chinoy, H., Chung, L., Fiorentino, D., Gordon, P., Machado, P.M., McHugh, N., Selva-O'Callaghan, A., Schmidt, J., Tansley, S.L., Vleugels, R.A., Werth, V.P., Moghadam-Kia, S. International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies Group Cancer Screening Expert Group; Aggarwal R. International Guideline for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy-Associated Cancer Screening: an International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies Group (IMACS) initiative. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2023; 12: 805-817.
Oddis, C.V., Rockette, H.E., Zhu, L., Koontz, D.C., Lacomis, D., Venturupalli, S., Moghadam-Kia, S., Ascherman, D.P., Crofford, L., Dimachkie, M.M., Ernste, F., Gazeley, D., Marder, G., Aggarwal, R. Randomized Trial of Tocilizumab in the Treatment of Refractory Adult Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis. ACR Open Rheumatol. PMID: 36128663. 2022; 4 (11): 983-990.
Hosono, Y., Sie, B., Pinal-Fernandez, I., Pak, K., Mecoli, C.A., Casal-Dominquez, M., Warner, B.M., Kaplan, M.J., Albayda, J., Danoff, S., Lloyd, T.E., Paik, J.J., Tiniakou, E., Aggarwal, R., Oddis, C.V., Moghadam-Kia, S., Carmona-Rivera, C., et al. Coexisting autoantibodies against transcription factor Sp4 are associated with decreased cancer risk in patients with dermatomyositis with anti-TIF1? autoantibodies. Ann Rheum Dis. PMID: 36008132. 2023; Feb;82(2): 246-252.
Moghadam-Kia, S., Oddis, C.V. Current and new targets for treating myositis. Curr Opin Pharmacol.PMID: 35724455. 2022; Aug;65:1022557.
Notable Achievements
Japan College of Rheumatology Award, 2015
Certificate of achievement for top oral presentation, Congress of Clinical Rheumatology Meeting, Destin, Florida, 2015
American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Fellow Award, 2014
Honorable mention-American College of Rheumatology Annual Image Competition, 2013
Caplan Research Award, University of Pittsburgh Arthritis Center, 2012-2013
Best Poster Award, American College of Physicians D.C. Chapter Annual Meeting, DC, 2010

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