Grant Schulert, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
- grant.schulert@cchmc.org
- Board Certified
About
Biography
As a pediatric rheumatologist and researcher, I specialize in treating autoinflammatory disorders, juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), systemic JIA, and complications of systemic JIA such as macrophage activation syndrome and lung disease.
I've always enjoyed working with children and families. I find the passion of parents inspiring and love the energy, humor and honesty of kids. I was drawn to rheumatology because we are asked hard questions, such as how to solve disease puzzles and how to find the best treatments. I also enjoy the long-term relationships with families and patients.
My interest in how the immune system works and how it fails led me to my research. My graduate work was in microbiology and how highly virulent microbes subvert the host immune system. In rheumatic diseases the immune system has become dysregulated to overreact or attack the body itself.
Broadly, I am interested in autoinflammation — how the body’s first line of defense becomes dysregulated in inflammatory diseases. More specifically, my principle interest is in the complications of systemic JIA such as macrophage activation syndrome and systemic JIA-associated lung disease.
My colleagues and I are trying to determine what causes severe complications of autoinflammatory disorders such as systemic JIA, how do we best treat and control hyperinflammation and how can we use novel biomarkers and genomics to direct our treatments.
I was extremely honored in 2018 to receive the Gold Medal Suzanne Dehoche Prize from the Kourir Association, a French organization for families of children with JIA. They present this prize to researchers whose work is most likely to lead to new treatments for juvenile arthritis. This was an amazing recognition of what we hope to do: Use genomics techniques to accelerate treatments.
MD: University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, 2009.
PhD: University of Iowa Department of Microbiology, Iowa City, IA, 2009.
Residency: Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
Fellowship: Pediatric Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Certification: Pediatrics, 2012; Pediatric Rheumatology, 2017.
Interests
Pediatric rheumatology; juvenile idiopathic arthritis; macrophage activation syndrome; autoinflammatory syndromes; periodic fevers
Services and Specialties
Interests
Systemic JIA; macrophage activation syndrome; innate immunity; monocyte and macrophage functions; whole exome sequencing
Research Areas
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Publications
Racial Disparities and Achievement of the Low Lupus Disease Activity State: A CARRA Registry Study. Arthritis Care and Research. 2025; 77:38-49.
Current treatment in macrophage activation syndrome worldwide: a systematic literature review to inform the METAPHOR project. Rheumatology. 2025; 64:32-44.
Effect of an Electronic Pill Bottle on Hydroxychloroquine Adherence in Pediatric Lupus: Results of a Novel Direct-to-Family Pilot Trial. ACR Open Rheumatology. 2025; 7:e11780.
Treatment and Visual Outcomes in Pediatric Patients with Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy: A Cohort Study. Ocular Immunology and Inflammation (Informa). 2024; 32:2441-2448.
Implementation study of the CARRA Uveitis Consensus Treatment Plans: feasibility for clinical practice and applicability for research. Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal. 2024; 22:88.
S100 proteins as potential predictive biomarkers of abatacept response in polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Arthritis Research and Therapy. 2024; 26:125.
National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel: Perspectives and Lessons Learned. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2024; 177:1547-1557.
Safety and efficacy of tofacitinib for the treatment of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: preliminary results of an open-label, long-term extension study. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2024; 83:1561-1571.
New discoveries in the genetics and genomics of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Expert Review of Clinical Immunology. 2024; 20:1053-1064.
Safety and effectiveness of abatacept in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: results from the PRINTO/PRCSG registry. Rheumatology. 2024; 63:SI195-SI206.
From the Blog
Aggressive Screening Needed to Detect sJIA Lung Complication
Grant Schulert, MD, PhD, Alexei A. Grom, MD10/29/2019
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