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Fellow’s Forum Case Report: Limited Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis

Eunjung Kim, MD, Hyun Bae, MD, Ritu Kathuria, MD, Alexandra Gottdiener, MD, & Girish Sonpal, MD, FACR  |  Issue: September 2015  |  

Alexandra H. Gottdiener, MD, has been chief of medicine at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center since 2009 and residency faculty since 2001. She is a fellow in the American College of Physicians, and a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American Association for Physician Leadership. And Girish M. Sonpal, MD, FACR, is an associate faculty member of the rheumatology department at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, N.J.

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