Lesley Ann Saketkoo MD, MPH

Lesley Ann Saketkoo, MD, an associate professor of clinical medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, has been named Doctor of the Year by the Scleroderma Foundation. The award recognizes leadership and commitment to the community battling scleroderma, a disabling and life-limiting multi-organ autoimmune disease with progressive lung, heart, kidney, gastrointestinal tract and/or vascular involvement.

Saketkoo is an internationally recognized researcher, educator and clinician in scleroderma/systemic sclerosis, sarcoidosis, myositis, pulmonary hypertension and interstitial lung disease. She was the principal investigator of a large study that identified the minimal set of outcome measures for connective tissue disease-related Interstitial Lung Disease and also for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis for use in the clinical trials. She is also the principal investigator for multiple clinical trials and registries in scleroderma, sarcoidosis, pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension.