Rodolfo Curiel, MD, FACP, FACR is the Program Director of the Rheumatology Fellowship, Division Director, Director of the GW Myositis Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates.
The GW Myositis Center was created with the help of a generous grant from Cure JM, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding a cure for juvenile-onset myositis. The center provides clinical consultation to patients with established or suspected inflammatory muscle diseases. The center has several ongoing research studies including Identifying Genetic Risk and protective Factors for Myositis, Outcome Studies in Juvenile and Adult Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis , Environmental Exposures and Disease Flare in Adult and Juvenile Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis and clinical trials which focus on the response of myositis patients to different therapeutic agents.