Dr. Pari Basharat

Pari Basharat, MD, FRCPC is completed her medical school training as well as fellowships in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the University of Western Ontario. She also completed a fellowship in Inflammatory Myopathies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Basharat has a special interest in both general rheumatology and inflammatory myopathies. She currently runs a specialized multidisciplinary clinic for Inflammatory Myositis bimonthly with Dr. Shannon Venance, a neuromuscular specialist from the Department of Neurology at Western University. The clinic serves to enhance the care and assessment of patients with possible autoimmune muscle disorders.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Basharat is also involved in research at the local, national and international levels in autoimmune myopathies. She has received the AMOSO Opportunities Fund Award from the Department of Medicine, Western University, for her research in this area.

• Favourite Food: Zereskh polo (a Persian dish of chicken kabob, basmati rice, barberries and saffron)
• Must have luxury: Going out for “high tea”
• Animal that best describes you: A fish (I’m a typical Pisces)
• Where you are when you're not working: At my cottage on the lake
• Weirdest place you've ever slept: An apartment in a historical building in Boston with creepy, old portraits on the walls that were staring at me!

Reports by Dr. Pari Basharat

• Do I Look Fat on This? Early Fatty Replacement of Muscle on MRI in Immune Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy
• Muscle, Malignancy and Mortality – the Role of Comorbidities in Inflammatory Myopathies
• More Than Skin Deep – Fibrosis of Muscle in Scleroderma is Associated With Increased Mortality
• Death by Macrophage: Rethinking the Concept of Inflammation in Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy
• Does Treatment of Gout Cause Muscle Doubt? Colchicine, Statins and the Risk of Myotoxicity
• Risk Factors for Malignancy in Dermatomyositis
• Exercise is Beneficial in Myositis Patients
• A New Prednisone for Lupus Nephritis
• Weak in the Knees, Heart Skips a Beat: Cardiac Involvement in Myositis
• Inflammatory Myopathy with ILD is Seasonal!
• Time is Muscle: Treatment Trends in Juvenile Dermatomyositis
• Parting Ways with Prednisone: Are Steroids Really Necessary in the Treatment of Myositis?