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Meredith Profeta Riebschleger, M.D. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital profile
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Dr. Riebschleger is Board Certified in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Rheumatology. She received her M.D. degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in 2005. She moved to Michigan for her residency, and chose to stay at the University of Michigan for all of her post-graduate training (Pediatrics residency, Chief year, and Pediatric Rheumatology & Health Services Research fellowship). Dr. Riebschleger has been on faculty since 2012. She currently has one in-person clinic at Mott, two at the Northville Health Center, and one virtual clinic. She also travels to Traverse City for an outreach clinic 2-4 times per year.
Dr. Riebschleger has 3 children, 1 husband, and 2 dogs. She enjoys watching her kids play sports and she’s obsessed with Star Wars and super heroes.
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Jacqueline Madison, M.D. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Profile
Dr. Madison is Board Certified in General Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Michigan Medical School. She remained in Michigan for her Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency and combined adult and Pediatric Rheumatology fellowship at the University of Michigan. She sees pediatric rheumatology patients at Mott and adult rheumatology patients at the Taubman Clinic. She does the majority of her research on antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and lupus, though she also collaborates on work related to COVID-19 and juvenile myositis. Outside of work, Dr. Madison enjoys spending time with her child, partner, and dog. She likes to run, read fiction, get outdoors, and travel to new countries and national parks.
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Smriti Mohan, M.D. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital profile
Dr. Mohan is Board Certified in General Pediatrics and in Pediatric Rheumatology.
She received her M.D. degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine in 2007. She completed her residency in General Pediatrics at the University of Michigan, Mott Children's Hospital in 2010, and stayed at UM to complete her clinical and postdoctoral fellowships in Pediatric Rheumatology. She has been on faculty since 2015. She currently has clinics at Mott and West Ann Arbor. She is the site PI for the Children's Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), and is collaborating with colleagues in TMJ arthritis research.
Dr. Mohan keeps herself busy outside of work with her 3 children, husband, and multitude of hobbies which include gardening, running, sewing, and reading young adult sci-fi/fantasy.
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital profile
Dr. Turnier is Board Certified in General Pediatrics. She received her MD degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2011. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, Children’s Hospital Colorado in 2014. She returned to the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and completed her Pediatric Rheumatology fellowship and training in clinical and translational research in 2017. Dr. Turnier spends the majority of her time on research related to the skin manifestations of juvenile myositis. She has received funding from the Cure JM Foundation and the American College of Rheumatology. She has clinic at Mott.
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Dr. Saad is Board Certified in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Rheumatology. She received her MD degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar in 2014. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Wright State University in 2017. Dr. Saad completed her fellowship in Pediatric Rheumatology in 2020 at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Dr. Saad has an interest in auto-inflammatory disorders, particularly in periodic fever syndromes. She is involved in the auto-inflammatory group through the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), as well as in the North American Immuno-Hematology Clinical Education and Research (NICER) Consortium. Dr. Saad is currently working on a multi-center, international study to validate a disease activity measure in PFAPA. She has clinic at Mott twice a week, and in the Immuno-Hematology Comprehensive Program at Mott twice a month.
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Cyrena work closely with our nurses and providers to answer and respond to patient phone calls, as well as helping with the scheduling of new patients, follow-up appointments, overbooked appointments and urgent appointment requests.
Sheri works closely with our providers, nurses, and administrative staff to coordinate prior authorizations for procedures, testing, and off-site infusions.
Dawn works closely with our providers, nurses, and administrative staff to coordinate prior authorizations for mediations.
Anne received her Bachelor of Science from Boston University. She practiced as a nurse in the UM Pediatric Infectious disease unit for 4 years, UM pediatric emergency department for 10 years and has been with Pediatric Rheumatology since 1998.
Cindy has been with the University of Michigan for 10 years and worked mostly with children and adults with cancer. She joined the Pediatric Rheumatology team in October 2015 with 34 years of nursing experience.
Jeff received his bachelors in nursing from Chamberlain College. He practiced as a Pediatric Oncology Nurse for 8 years at ST Vincent Mercy Children’s Hospital and as a Pediatric Emergency room nurse at ST Joseph for 3 years before joining the Pediatric Rheumatology team in January of 2017.
