She provides care for children and teenagers with a variety of rheumatologic diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus, childhood arthritis, dermatomyositis, vasculitis and musculoskeletal pain. She has particular interest in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and mental health. She is participating in multiple multi-center studies investigating depression and anxiety in youth with SLE and other chronic rheumatic diseases, as well as ways to enhance effective interventions in patients with SLE affected with depression and anxiety.
She is the leader in a multicenter study investigating the characteristics of Juvenile idiopathic Arthritis based on ethnicity with centers here in the US and Latin America.
Dr. Rodríguez participates in multiple multicenter studies and clinical trials of drugs to treat children with rheumatic diseases. She also participates in clinical registries to define the characteristics and to better define the disease pattern of a variety of rheumatologic conditions. She is the leader of a multicenter study with centers in US and Latin America comparing the clinical characteristics, physician assessment of disease activity, parent/subject assessment of disease activity and pain and presence/absence of imaging evidence of joint damage among Hispanic patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis vs Non-Hispanic patients.She is also participating in a multicenter study in US and Canada screening depression and anxiety in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
Dr. Rodríguez clinical interests include systemic lupus erythematosus, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Juvenile Dermatomyositis, vasculitis, Autoinflammatory conditions, Periodic Fever Syndromes, uveitis and musculoskeletal pain.
