Iazsmin Bauer Ventura, MD, MSc, is a board-certified rheumatologist with a primary focus on inflammatory myopathies, autoimmune lung and skin diseases and vasculitidies, as well as providing comprehensive general rheumatology care.

As part of UChicago Medicine’s multidisciplinary interstitial lung disease team, Dr. Bauer Ventura works with other specialty experts to diagnose, treat and manage interstitial lung diseases.

Dr. Bauer Ventura is an expert in inflammatory myopathies (also called myositis), including dermatomyositis, antisynthetase syndrome, immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies, inclusion body myositis, overlap myositis syndromes and polymyositis. She is the director of the Myositis Program at UChicago Medicine and a collaborator in numerous projects with well-recognized international leaders in the field.

In addition to her devotion to her clinical practice, Dr. Bauer Ventura serves in several international research groups that aim to advance knowledge in the fields of interstitial lung diseases and myositis. She is also a dedicated clinical educator, teaching and advising medical students, residents and fellows, providing guidance as they move through their medical career.