Janet E. Pope MD, MPH, FRCPC

Dr. Janet E. Pope is a rheumatologist; epidemiologist and professor of medicine. Her interests include epidemiologic studies and randomized trials in scleroderma (systemic sclerosis), SLE (lupus, systemic lupus erythematosus), rheumatoid arthritis (RA; including early rheumatoid arthritis). She supervises master's students and is involved in many multi-site databases with stored serum, antibodies, and well-defined patient characteristics (including early RA, SLE, scleroderma, and RA treated with biologics).

Dr. Pope is the Division Head in Rheumatology at St. Joseph's Health Centre, London. She obtained her MD and Fellowship in Internal Medicine at UWO (1985) and a Fellowship in Rheumatology and Masters of Public Health (in Epidemiology and Biostatistics) at Boston University. She then did an Arthritis Society research fellowship in scleroderma. She is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and also Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.