VivianPatricia(Bykerk Kern)BykerkMD

Professor, Medicine, Weill Cornell Med College

Overview of Dr. Bykerk

Dr. Vivian Bykerk is a rheumatologist in New York, NY and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and Hospital for Special Surgery. She received her medical degree from Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and has been in practice 41 years. Dr. Bykerk accepts several types of health insurance, listed below. She is one of 94 doctors at Hospital for Special Surgery and one of 119 doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital who specialize in Rheumatology. She has more than 100 publications and over 500 citings.

Office
535 E 70th St
New York, NY 10021
Book by Phone+1(928) 440-9112

Fax+1 212-606-1605

Education & Training

Michael G. DeGroote School of MedicineClass of 1981

Certifications & Licensure

NY State Medical License 1981 - 2026
MA State Medical License 2009 - 2013
Royal College of Physicians (Canada)Board Certified Internal Medicine
Royal College of Physicians CanadaRheumatology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellow American College of Rheumatology

Clinical Trials

A Study of Novel Immune Modulating Biomarkers in Patients With Spondyloarthritis With Axial Involvement Start of enrollment: 2013 Jan 01
Active, not recruiting
Consortium of Early Arthritis Cohorts USA Start of enrollment: 2014 Dec 01
Recruiting
Strategy to Prevent the Onset of Clinically-Apparent Rheumatoid Arthritis Start of enrollment: 2016 Apr 27
Terminated
Phase 2

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

345 citations
Functionally distinct disease-associated fibroblast subsets in rheumatoid arthritis
Fumitaka Mizoguchi, Kamil Slowikowski, Kevin Wei, Jennifer L. Marshall, Deepak A. Rao
Nature Communications. 2018-02-23
1037 citations
EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2019 update.
Josef S Smolen, Robert B M Landewé, Johannes W J Bijlsma, Gerd R Burmester, Maxime Dougados
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2020-06-01
968 citations
Treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: 2014 update of the recommendations of an international task force
Josef S Smolen, Ferdinand C. Breedveld, Gerd R Burmester, Vivian P. Bykerk, Maxime Dougados
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2016-01-01

Journal Articles

Methods for High-Dimensonal Analysis of Cells Dissociated from Cyropreserved Synovial Tissue
Paul J Utz, William H Robinson, Ellen M Gravallese, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Alessandra B Pernis, Susan M Goodman, Michael B Brenner, Lionel B Ivashkiv, Brendan F Boyce, P..., BioMed Central
Randomized Controlled Trials of Biologic Treatment with Methotrexate in RA May Not Reflect Real World Practice: A Systematic Review and Assessment of Pragmaticism
Vivian (Bykerk Kern) Bykerk, MD, Arthritis Care & Research

Press Mentions

Expert Roundtable: How Clear Is the Concept of Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare?July 15th, 2022
HSS Presents Rheumatoid Arthritis Research at 2022 EULAR Annual CongressJune 6th, 2022
ACR 2021: 100+ Arthritis and Rheumatic Disease Updates You Need to KnowNovember 23rd, 2021
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Grant Support

A Pragmatic Clinical Trial of Treatment Withdrawal Using Shared Decision MakingCanadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR)2018–2021
Molecular Pathways in Treatment Response and Flare in RANIH2014–2021

Committees

Member, ACR Committee of Journals and Publications 2018 - 2020

Professional Memberships

American College of Rheumatology - ACR
Member

Insurance Accepted

Aetna Choice POS II
Aetna HMO
BCBS Blue Card PPO
CIGNA HMO
CIGNA Open Access
CIGNA PPO
Empire BCBS HMO
Empire BCBS PPO
First Health PPO
Great West PPO
Humana ChoiceCare Network PPO
Multiplan PHCS PPO
Multiplan PPO
Oxford Health Freedom
Oxford Health Liberty
UniCare PPO
United Healthcare - Direct Choice Plus POS
United Healthcare - Direct Options PPO
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