Dr. Ardalan is a Pediatric Rheumatologist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Ardalan's clinical interests are in juvenile myositis, lupus, and scleroderma and he is co-director of the Duke-Cure JM Center of Excellence in Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies. His research interests encompass health-related quality of life, patient-reported outcomes, mental health, psychological stress, adverse childhood experiences, cardiovascular health and outcomes research, psychometrics, and qualitative/mixed methods research. His most recent work, funded by the Rheumatology Research Foundation Investigator Award, focuses on the relationships between psychological stress, inflammation, and cardiovascular health in juvenile lupus and dermatomyositis.