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Pediatric rheumatologists treat children with arthritis and other rheumatic diseases that affect joints, muscles, bones, skin and other tissues. These diseases affects a child’s ability to move and play. Our goal is to improve their quality of life with early intervention.
Conditions treated (list is not comprehensive)
- Angioedema
- Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
- Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
- Hypermobility Syndrome
- Immunodeficiencies
- Juvenile Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Juvenile DermatomyositisJuvenile
- Idiopathic Arthritis
- Kawasaki Disease
- Periodic Fever Syndromes
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Rheumatic Fever
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroderma
- Sjogren’s Syndrome
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
- Vasculitis

Kevin Baszis, MD
Pediatric Rheumatology
Locations:
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
St. Louis Children’s Specialty Care Center – South County
St. Louis Children’s Specialty Care Center – West County

Tarin Bigley, MD, PhD
Pediatric Immunology
Pediatric Rheumatology
Locations:
St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Leslie Fogel, MD, PhD
Pediatric Immunology
Pediatric Rheumatology
Locations:
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
St. Louis Children’s Specialty Care Center – South County

Bradley Ornstein, MD
Pediatric Rheumatology
Locations:
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
St. Louis Children’s Specialty Care Center – West County

Erica Schmitt, MD, PhD
Pediatric Immunology
Pediatric Rheumatology
Locations:
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
St. Louis Children’s Specialty Care Center – South County

Claire Seper, CPNP-PC
Pediatric Rheumatology
Locations:
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
St. Louis Children’s Specialty Care Center – West County

Reema Syed, MD
Pediatric Rheumatology
Rheumatology
Locations:
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital – Medical Office Building 2
St. Louis Children’s Specialty Care Center – West County
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Center for Advanced Medicine
Village Square – North County