Laniyati Hamijoyo MD

Laniyati Hamijoyo is on the medical staff of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Padjadjaran Bandung, Indonesia. After finishing her residency training in internal medicine and magisterial of health education at the University of Padjadjaran, Bandung in 2005, she took her fellowship training in rheumatology at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital, Manila, Philippines, and graduated in 2007. 

Dr Hamijoyo has received several national and international awards including International Scholarship Awards from the Japanese College of Rheumatology (2007) and Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology Congress (APLAR, 2008), Research Paper Award from the UST, Manila (2007), Philippine Rheumatology Association (PRA, 2008) and Indonesian Rheumatology Association (IRA, 2008). She serves as a member of several medical organizations, such as IRA, PRA, APLAR, and the Asia Pacific Lupus Collaboration (APLC), and is actively involved in several national and international clinical trials. 

Her main interest is in the field of lupus where she has conducted several studies, been the author and co-author of several journal articles, and has worked on the lupus database in the Philippines. She is currently developing a lupus database in Indonesia, where she also supervises physicians and lay education programs.