BCHP Specialty: Pediatric Rheumatology
We are devoted to caring for children with arthritis, autoimmune diseases, auto-inflammatory diseases, musculoskeletal pain disorders, osteoporosis and genetic diseases. Our goal is to help children with these sometimes disabling conditions grow and develop as normally as possible.
Our services
We have experience caring for a wide range of conditions, including some very serious diseases that can be difficult to diagnose and treat. Our physicians have special expertise in:
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- neonatal lupus erythematosus
- Lyme arthritis
- rheumatic fever
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura
- Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA)
- Takayasu arteritis
- Kawasaki disease
- familial mediterranean fever
- periodic fever syndromes
- idiopathic uveitis
- Behcet syndrome
- sarcoidosis
- thrombophilic syndromes
- dermatomyositis
- systemic sclerosis
- linear scleroderma
- antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
We often work with other specialists to help manage these complex, chronic conditions.
Your first visit
If your child is a new patient, please download and fill out our New Patient Questionnaire before your child’s first visit.
For referring providers
Download our specialty sheet for a complete list of our Pediatric Rheumatology locations by county.
Contact us
Phone: 914-594-2270
Fax: 914-449-2389
Chief of Pediatric Rheumatology
Chun Chao, MD
Chief of Pediatric RheumatologyPediatric Rheumatology Staff
Christine Hom, MD
Pediatric Rheumatologist
