Carol Feghali-Bostwick, PhD

SScores Associate Director; Lung Histopathology Core PIMUSC Feghali Bostwick pic

Institution: Medical University of South Carolina

Graduate school:  Tulane University/PhD/1992

Academic rank:  Professor

Mailing address:  96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Suite 912, PO Box 250637, Charleston, SC 29425

Email:  feghalib@musc.edu

Phone:  843.792.1991

Summary of academic interest:  Pathogenesis of fibrosis, IGFBP mechanisms of action, study of twins with scleroderma

Recent publications relevant to the SScores:

Skin gene expression correlates of severity of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis.  Assassi S, Wu M, Tan FK, Chang J, Graham TA, Furst DE, Khanna D, Charles J, Ferguson EC, Feghali-Bostwick C, Mayes MD.  Arthritis Rheum. 2013 Nov;65(11):2917-27. doi: 10.1002/art.38101. PMID:23897225

Lung tissues in patients with systemic sclerosis have gene expression patterns unique to pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension.  Hsu E, Shi H, Jordan RM, Lyons-Weiler J, Pilewski JM, Feghali-Bostwick CA.  Arthritis Rheum. 2011 Mar;63(3):783-94. doi: 10.1002/art.30159.