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Aleksander Lenert, MD, MS, FRCPC

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Immunology

Introduction

Aleksander Lenert is an Adult Rheumatologist and Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Immunology at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics. He completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. His clinical interests are in the diagnosis and management of adults with autoinflammatory syndromes (i.e. periodic fever syndromes) and systemic vasculitis. Specifically, Dr. Lenert has expertise in the care of patients with adult onset Still’s disease (AOSD), Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), Behçet’s disease, periodic fever with aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenitis (PFAPA) and other autoinflammatory syndromes. In collaboration with his mentor Dr. Polly Ferguson (Pediatric Rheumatologist), Dr. Lenert is forming a specialized clinic for the management of adult patients with inflammatory bone diseases, focused on the comprehensive care of adult patients with chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO, or chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis) and SAPHO (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis). Additionally, Dr. Lenert has expertise in the management of patients with systemic vasculitis, including Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), Giant cell arteritis (GCA), Takayasu's arteritis, and other rare forms of vasculitis.

Current Positions

  • Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Immunology

Education

  • MD, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, Canada
  • MS, Clinical & Translational Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
  • Resident, Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Fellow, Rheumatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Selected Publications

  • Suman, S. & Lenert, A. (2019). Diagnostic Dilemma of Disseminated Histoplasmosis Mimicking Hemophagocytosis Lymphohistiocytosis in Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis on Anti-TNF Therapy: Case Report and Review of the Literature. (Vols. 2019). pp. 4169052. Case reports in rheumatology. DOI: 10.1155/2019/4169052. PMID: 30891325. PMCID: PMC6390234.
  • Lenert, A. & Fardo, D. W. (2017). Detecting novel micro RNAs in rheumatoid arthritis with gene-based association testing. Clinical and experimental rheumatology 35 (4) 586-592. PMID: 28134081.
  • Lenert, A., Niewold, T. B. & Lenert, P. (2017). Spotlight on blisibimod and its potential in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus: evidence to date. Drug design, development and therapy 11 747-757. DOI: 10.2147/DDDT.S114552. PMID: 28331294. PMCID: PMC5357079.
  • Lenert, A. & Lenert, P. (2017). Tapering biologics in rheumatoid arthritis: a pragmatic approach for clinical practice. Clinical rheumatology 36 (1) 1-8. DOI: 10.1007/s10067-016-3490-8. PMID: 27896522.
  • Lenert, A. & Yao, Q. (2016). Macrophage activation syndrome complicating adult onset Still's disease: A single center case series and comparison with literature. Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism 45 (6) 711-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2015.11.002. PMID: 26672682.
  • Lenert, A. & Lenert, P. (2015). Current and emerging treatment options for ANCA-associated vasculitis: potential role of belimumab and other BAFF/APRIL targeting agents. Drug design, development and therapy 9 333-47. DOI: 10.2147/DDDT.S67264. PMID: 25609919. PMCID: PMC4294650.
  • Matesic, D., Lenert, A. & Lenert, P. (2012). Modulating toll-like receptor 7 and 9 responses as therapy for allergy and autoimmunity. Current allergy and asthma reports 12 (1) 8-17. DOI: 10.1007/s11882-011-0233-4. PMID: 22086297.
  • Zheng, C., Lenert, A. & Sankoff, D. (2005). Reversal distance for partially ordered genomes. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 21 Suppl 1 i502-8. DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti1037. PMID: 15961497.
  • Lenert, A., Russell, M. J., Seagerstrom, S. & Kim, S. Claims Codes for the Diagnosis of Autoinflammatory Syndromes. J Clin Rheumatol.
  • Lenert, A. & Kim, S. Patient Education Materials in Rheumatology: Only Adequate at Best. (Vols. 69). (10) Arthritis & Rheumatology.

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