Sarah Patterson, MD

Education
06/2020 - Integrative Medicine Clinical Fellowship, University of Califronia, San Francisco
06/2019 - Integrative Medicine Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
06/2018 - Rheumatology Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
06/2014 - Internal Medicine Residency, University of California, San Francisco
M.D., 5/2011 - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
B.A, 12/2003 - Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Publications

  1. Patterson SL, Ruvalcaba D, Issa A, Rai K, Katz P, Koenig CJ. Experiences with Complementary and Integrative Health Among People with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Qualitative Study. The Journal of rheumatology 2025. PMID: 40312102


  2. Narendra R, Van Phan H, Patterson SL, Almonte-Loya A, Lydon EC, Lanata C, Love C, Park J, Shimoda M, Barcellos L, Mekonen H, Detweiler A, Deosthale P, Neff N, Criswell LA, Maliskova L, Eckalbar W, Fragiadakis GK, Yazdany J, Dall'Era M, Katz P, Ye CJ, Sirota M, Langelier CR. Epigenetic attenuation of interferon signaling is associated with aging-related improvements in systemic lupus erythematosus. Science translational medicine 2025. PMID: 40561001


  4. Patterson SL, Park J, Hartogensis W, Katz P. Perceived Stress and Prediction of Worse Patient-Reported Outcomes in a Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort. Arthritis care & research 2025. PMID: 40181767


  5. Lee EY, Patterson S, Cutts Z, Lanata CM, Dall'Era M, Yazdany J, Criswell LA, Haemel A, Katz P, Ye CJ, Langelier C, Sirota M. Transcriptomic analysis reveals immune signatures associated with specific cutaneous manifestations of lupus in systemic lupus erythematosus. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025. PMID: 40488128


  6. Narendra R, Phan HV, Patterson SL, Almonte Loya AL, Lanata C, Love C, Park J, Lydon EC, Shimoda MA, Barcellos L, Mekonen H, Detweiler A, Deosthale P, Neff N, Criswell LA, Maliskova L, Eckalbar W, Fragiadakis G, Yazdany J, Dall'Era M, Katz P, Ye CJ, Sirota M, Langelier CR. Epigenetic attenuation of interferon signaling drives aging-related improvements in systemic lupus. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025. PMID: 39974140


  7. Patterson SL, Van Phan H, Ye CJ, Lanata C, González SC, Park J, Criswell LA, Barbour KE, Yazdany J, Dall'Era M, Sirota M, Katz P, Langelier CR. Physical inactivity exacerbates pathologic inflammatory signalling at the single cell level in patients with systemic lupus. EBioMedicine 2024. PMID: 39531917


  8. Cutts Z, Patterson S, Maliskova L, Taylor KE, Ye CJ, Dall'Era M, Yazdany J, Criswell LA, Fragiadakis GK, Langelier C, Capra JA, Sirota M, Lanata CM. Cell-Specific Transposable Element and Gene Expression Analysis Across Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Phenotypes. ACR Open Rheumatology 2024. PMID: 39143499


  9. DeQuattro K, Trupin L, Patterson S, Rush S, Gordon C, Greenlund KJ, Barbour KE, Lanata C, Criswell LA, Dall'Era M, Yazdany J, Katz PP. Positive psychosocial factors may protect against perceived stress in people with systemic lupus erythematosus with and without trauma history. Lupus science & medicine 2024. PMID: 38754905


  10. Katz P, Patterson SL, DeQuattro K, Lanata CM, Barbour KE, Greenlund KJ, Gordon C, Criswell LA, Dall'Era M, Yazdany J. The association of trauma with self-reported flares and disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Rheumatology (Oxford, England) 2022. PMID: 36477308


  11. Barth KE, Spottiswoode N, Hurabielle C, Subbaraj L, COMET Consortium, Calfee CS, Matthay MA, French S, Connolly A, Hewitt SM, Vannella KM, Barnett C, Langelier CR, Patterson S. Clinical and biological heterogeneity of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case series. Frontiers in medicine 2023. PMID: 37484839


  12. England BR, Smith BJ, Baker NA, Barton JL, Oatis CA, Guyatt G, Anandarajah A, Carandang K, Chan KK, Constien D, Davidson E, Dodge CV, Bemis-Dougherty A, Everett S, Fisher N, Fraenkel L, Goodman SM, Lewis J, Menzies V, Moreland LW, Navarro-Millan I, Patterson S, Phillips LR, Shah N, Singh N, White D, AlHeresh R, Barbour KE, Bye T, Guglielmo D, Haberman R, Johnson T, Kleiner A, Lane CY, Li LC, Master H, Pinto D, Poole JL, Steinbarger K, Sztubinski D, Thoma L, Tsaltskan V, Turgunbaev M, Wells C, Turner AS, Treadwell JR. 2022 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for Exercise, Rehabilitation, Diet, and Additional Integrative Interventions for Rheumatoid Arthritis. Arthritis care & research 2023. PMID: 37227116


  13. Patterson S, Trupin L, Hartogensis W, DeQuattro K, Lanata C, Gordon C, Barbour KE, Greenlund KJ, Dall'Era M, Yazdany J, Katz P. Perceived Stress and Prediction of Worse Disease Activity and Symptoms in a Multiracial, Multiethnic Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cohort. Arthritis care & research 2022. PMID: 36537191


  14. Patterson SL, Sun S, Rychkov D, Katz P, Tsitsiklis A, Nakamura MC, Serpa PH, Langelier CR, Sirota M. Physical Activity Associates with Lower Systemic Inflammatory Gene Expression in Rheumatoid Arthritis. The Journal of rheumatology 2022. PMID: 35777820


  15. Patterson SL, Trupin L, Yazdany J, Dall'Era M, Lanata C, Dequattro K, Hartogensis W, Katz P. Physical Inactivity Independently Predicts Incident Depression in a Multi-Racial/Ethnic Systemic Lupus Cohort. Arthritis care & research 2021. PMID: 33421358


  16. DeVoe C, Segal MR, Wang L, Stanley K, Madera S, Fan J, Schouest J, Graham-Ojo R, Nichols A, Prasad PA, Ghale R, Love C, Abe-Jones Y, Kangelaris KN, Patterson SL, Yokoe DS, Langelier CR. Increased rates of secondary bacterial infections, including Enterococcus bacteremia, in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2021. PMID: 34486503


  17. Patterson SL, Sagui-Henson S, Prather AA. Measures of Psychosocial Stress and Stressful Exposures. Arthritis care & research 2020. PMID: 33091267


  18. Patterson S, Schmajuk G, Evans M, Aggarwal I, Izadi Z, Gianfrancesco M, Yazdany J. Gaps in Ambulatory Patient Safety for Immunosuppressive Specialty Medications. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2019. PMID: 30686706


  19. Patterson SL, Schmajuk G, Jafri K, Yazdany J, Katz P. Obesity Independently Associates with Worse Patient-Reported Outcomes in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Arthritis care & research 2018. PMID: 29740985


  20. Schmajuk G, Jafri K, Evans M, Shiboski S, Gianfrancesco M, Izadi Z, Patterson SL, Aggarwal I, Sarkar U, Dudley RA, Yazdany J. Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) prophylaxis patterns among patients with rheumatic diseases receiving high-risk immunosuppressant drugs. Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism 2018. PMID: 30449650


  21. Patterson SL, Jafri K, Narvid JA, Margaretten M. A Young Woman With Sudden Urinary Retention and Sensory Deficits. Volume 70 of Issue 4. Arthritis care & research 2018. PMID: 29125903


  22. Jafri K, Ogdie A, Qasim A, Patterson SL, Gianfrancesco M, Izadi Z, Katz P, Yazdany J, Schmajuk G. Discordance of the Framingham cardiovascular risk score and the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association risk score in systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. Volume 37 of Issue 2. Clinical rheumatology 2017. PMID: 28993952


  23. Patterson SL, Goglin SE. Neuromyelitis Optica. Volume 43 of Issue 4. Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America 2017. PMID: 29061244


  24. Jafri K, Patterson SL, Lanata C. Central Nervous System Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Volume 43 of Issue 4. Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America 2017. PMID: 29061240


  25. Jafri K, Zahed H, Wysham KD, Patterson S, Nolan AL, Bucknor MD, Chaganti RK. Antimalarial myopathy in a systemic lupus erythematosus patient with quadriparesis and seizures: a case-based review. Volume 36 of Issue 6. Clinical rheumatology 2017. PMID: 28236156


  26. Patterson S, Moran P, Epel E, Sinclair E, Kemeny ME, Deeks SG, Bacchetti P, Acree M, Epling L, Kirschbaum C, Hecht FM. Cortisol patterns are associated with T cell activation in HIV. Volume 8 of Issue 7. PloS one 2013. PMID: 23922644


  27. Lovallo E, Patterson S, Erickson M, Chin C, Blanc P, Durrani TS. When Is "Pseudo-Ludwig's Angina" Associated With Coagulopathy Also a "Pseudo" Hemorrhage? Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports 2013. PMID: 26425576