Megan Elizabeth Bowles Clowse MD, MPH

Dr. Megan Clowse is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology. Her clinical research focuses on the management of rheumatic diseases in pregnancy. She has cared for over 600 pregnancies in women with rheumatic disease, collecting information on these pregnancies initially in the Duke Autoimmunity in Pregnancy Registry and Repository, and now the MADRA (Maternal Autoimmune Disease Research Alliance) registry and repository. She served on the Core Leadership Team for the inaugural American College of Rheumatology's Reproductive Health Guidelines, published January 2020. Dr. Clowse was the founding director of the Duke Lupus Clinic, where she continues to see patients each week and mentor junior faculty researchers. The team has developed a new approach to lupus classification and management and is currently collecting and analyzing patient- and physician-reported measures to better clarify this construct.

As the Co-Director of Duke Forge, Dr. Clowse has shepherding multiple Department of Medicine-funded studies to identify and build innovative approaches to using health data to improve patient care.