Biography
Dr Olga Petryna is a Board Certified Attending Rheumatologist at NYU Langone Medical Center ACWS and a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU School of Medicine. She completed her Rheumatology fellowship training at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical School. Dr. Petryna provides direct clinical care as well as clinical research and medical student and resident teaching. Her interests include cell immunologic treatments and the application of novel therapeutics in autoimmune and auto-inflammatory rheumatic diseases. She has been invited to present her research at several major national and international meetings and has published research articles in high impact peer-reviewed rheumatology journals. She was named “Rising Star in Rheumatology” in 2013 and 2014 by the New York Times Magazine.
Specialty
- Rheumatology
Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine-Rheumatology
- American Board of Internal Medicine-Internal Medicine
Education
- MD, Ivano-Frankowskij Medicinskij Inst
- Residency, Internal Medicine
Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Ct. - Fellowship, Rheumatology
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
- Clinical Instructor, NYU School of Medicine
Autoimmunity, Cellular Immunity, Immunology, Immunosuppression, Inflammation, T Cells
The Specific Regulation of Immune Responses by HLA-E/hsp60sp –restricted –CD8+ T cells and its role in autoimmunity.
Mentor: Leonard Chess, Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University, NY
07/01/2011-06/30/2013
The Role of Biomarkers in Predicting the Efficacy of Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Chart review study. Principal Investigator: Olga Petryna. Co- investigator Xuan Gao, M.D – -current