Karen I. Cyndari, MD, PhD
University of Iowa
Department of Emergency Medicine
200 Hawkins Drive
SE203 GH
Iowa City, IA 52242
Member Since: 2023
Member Status: Member
Title
Physician
Specialty/Subspecialty
Immunology
Clinical Interest(s)
Emergency Medicine,
Research Interest(s)
- Infectious arthritis
- Inflammatory arthritis
- Lyme arthritis
- macrophages
- synovium
Current / Former SSCI Roles
Tinsley Harrison scholar
Publications
About Karen I. Cyndari, MD, PhD
Karen is a physician-scientist in Emergency Medicine. Using her background in immunology (MS, Roswell Park Cancer Institute) and orthopedic basic science (PhD, SUNY Upstate), she focuses on the immune regulation of joint space in the setting of infectious and inflammatory arthritis. She is using Lyme Arthritis as a human model of the transition from infectious arthritis to chronic inflammatory arthritis (antibiotic refractory lyme arthritis).