Dr. Ashira Blazer is a rheumatologist in Baltimore, MD and is affiliated with Hospital for Special Surgery. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and has been in practice 7 years. She is one of 95 doctors at Hospital for Special Surgery who specialize in Rheumatology. She has more than 60 publications and over 250 citings.
Apolipoprotein L1 Risk Variants Associate with Poor Renal Outcomes, Damage Accrual, and Death: A Prospective Ghanaian SLE Cohort
Ashira Blazer MD, Ida Dzifa Dey MD, Margret Reynolds, Festus Ankrah, Nancyanne Schmidt MD, Robert Clancy PhD, Jill Buyon MD, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/22/2018
Apolipoprotein L1 Risk Variants, Renal Histopathology, and Prognosis in African American SLE Nephritis Patients: A Cohort Study
Ashira Blazer, Ming Wu, Nancyanne Schmidt, Alana Engelbrecht, Feng-Xia Liang, Robert Clancy, Jill Buyon, and H. Michael Belmont, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/21/2018
Interferon-Induced APOL1 Over-Expression Causes Autophagic Dysfunction and Mitochondrial Stress in Risk Variant-Carrying Endothelial Cells
Ashira Blazer MD, Sara E Rasmussen, Androo J Markham, Shilpi Mehta-Lee MD, Jill P Buyon, Robert Clancy PhD, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/8/2017
Apolipoprotein L1 Risk Variants Associate with Hypertension and Nephritis Progression Despite Lower dsDNA titers in Ghanaian Systemic Lupus Erythematous Patients
Ashira D Blazer, Ida Dzifa Dey, Sara Rasmussen, Robert Clancy, Jill P. Buyon, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/7/2017
Apolipoprotein L1 Risk Variants Associate with Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease in African American Systemic Lupus Erythematous Patients
Ashira Blazer MD, Robert Clancy PhD, Michael Belmont MD, Sean Heffron MD, Peter Izmirly MD, Androo Markham, Jill Buyon MD, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/12/2016
Heritable Endotheliopathy and Apolipoprotein Risk Traits in SLE (HEARTS)
Ashira Blazer, Androo Markum, H. Michael Belmont, Peter Izmirly, Janet Nwaukoni, Sara Rasmussen, Jill P. Buyon, Robert Clancy, Rheumatology Research Workshop, 6/26/2015
The Interaction between Chronic Inflammation and ApolipoproteinL1 Risk Phenotypes
Blazer A, Belmont M, Zhdanova O, Clancy R, Markham A, Izmirly P, Buyon JP, Rheumatology Research Workshop, Rheumatology Research Foundation, 1/24/2015
Functional Genomics of Apolipoprotein L1 in Vascular Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Blazer A, Markham A, Rasmussen S, Buyon JP, Belmont HM, Mehta-Lee S, Nwaukoni J, Izmirly PM, Clancy R, African League of Associations for Rheumatology Annual Meeting, AFLAR, 1/21/2015
Heritable Endotheliopathy and ApolipoproteinL1 Risk Traits in SLE
Blazer A, Markham A, Rasmussen S, Buyon JP, Belmont HM, Mehta-Lee S, Nwaukoni J, Izmirly PM, Clancy R, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/9/2015
Association Between Carrying at Least One Apolipoprotein L1 Variant Allele and Hypertension in Lupus Patients with Normal Renal Function
Ashira Blazer, H. Michael Belmont, Robert Clancy, Peter M. Izmirly, Jill P. Buyon, American College of Rheumatology, 11/6/2014
Association Between Carrying at Least One Apolipoprotein1 Variant Allele and Hypertension in Lupus Patients with Normal Renal Function
Blazer, Ashira Belmont M, Clancy R, Izmirly P, Buyon P, American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, ACR, 1/5/2014
Scientist Development AwardRheumatology Research Foundation2015–2017
Research History
Research InstructorApolipoprotein L1 gene mutations are common in individuals of African Ancestry. I study how these mutations increase the risk of renal and cardiovascular disease in African American Lupus Patients.2015 - Present