- Overview
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My main clinical research focus area include childhood onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE). cSLE is an autoimmune disease often presenting with more severe symptoms and involvement of the kidneys compared to adult patients. I am interested in disease outcomes, mental health, sexual and reproductive health and adolescent health of these patients. As this chronic disease can affect long-term health morbidity, I am striving to take a proactive role in improving outcomes as well as quality of life for these patients.
An additional research priority includes transition from pediatric to adult care as well as improving access to specialized care in rural areas across the province. Through my current Master of Public Health studies, with a specialty in Indigenous health I hope to incorporate my education into outreach and research efforts that improve culturally safe health care for these patients. My goal is to ensure that public health programs and healthcare systems better support young people and their families — including Indigenous communities — as they navigate this critical stage of life.
- Publications
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Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis or Growing Pains: Catching Arthritis Early
touchREVIEWS in RMD
Stephanie KA Wong and Marinka Twilt
11/2026Biomarkers for juvenile idiopathic arthritis treatment response—have we identified them?
Lancet Rheumatology
Wong, S.K.A. and Twilt, M.
DOI: 10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00189-4
2025A Tale of Many Canadas: Associations of Ancestry With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Categories and Disease Severity at Presentation to Care
Acr Open Rheumatology
Wong, S.K.A. and Tucker, L.B. and Houghton, K. and Cabral, D.A. and Chan, M. and Morishita, K.A. and Yeung, R.S.M. and Oen, K. and Duffy, C.M. and Berard, R.A. and Ch{\'e}deville, G. and Loughin, T. and Guzman, J. and Petty, R.E. and Human, A. and Bolaria, R. and Gross, K. and Turvey, S.E. and Ellsworth, J. and Benseler, S. and Johnson, N. and Miettunen, P. and Schmeling, H. and Larch{\'e}, M. and Cameron, B. and Laxer, R.M. and Spiegel, L. and Schneider, R. and Silverman, E. and Gibbon, M. and Roth, J. and Duffy, K.W. and Chetaille, A.-L. and Dorval, J. and Boire, G. and Bruns, A. and Campillo, S. and LeBlanc, C. and Scuccimarri, R. and Haddad, E. and St. Cyr, C. and Feldman, D. and Lang, B. and Ramsey, S.E. and Stringer, E. and Dancey, P.
DOI: 10.1002/acr2.70092
2025Advances in pharmacotherapy of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
Wong, S.K.A. and Appenzeller, S. and Twilt, M.
DOI: 10.1080/14656566.2025.2501146
2025Long-term safety of canakinumab in patients with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis: 5-year results from the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) registry
Pediatric Rheumatology
Correll, C. and Burciu, A. and Bansal, A. and Dennos, A. and Narayanswamy, D. and Aubrun, E. and Schanberg, L.E. and Yuhan, L. and Schneider, R. and Balevic, S. and Kimura, Y. and Beukelman, T. and Zic, C. and Zhu, A. and Zheng, Z. and Zhao, Y.D. and Zhang, Y.J. and Zeft, A. and Yeung, R. and Yalcindag, A. and Wu, E. and Wright, T. and Woolnough, L. and Wooldridge, S. and Wong, S. and Williams, C. and Widrick, K. and Wershba, E. and Weiss, J. and Weiss, P. and Weiser, P. and Waterfield, M. and Walters, H. and Wallgren, S. and Walker, B. and Wakefield, S. and Wahezi, D. and Wagner-Weiner, L. and Vora, S. and von Scheven, E. and Verstegen, R. and Verbsky, J. and Vega-Fernandez, P. and Vasquez, N. and Varghese, C. and Van Mater, H. and Vallee, A. and Valdovinos, R. and Valcarcel, T. and Twilt, M. and Twachtman-Bassett, J. and Tsin, C. and Tse, S. and Tse, T. and Treemarcki, E. and Toth, M. and Tory, H. and Torok, K. and Toib, D. and Todd, C. and Ting, T. and Timmerman, L. and Thomas, N. and Thomas, L. and Thomas, B. and Thieroff, G. and Theisen, A. and Tesher, M. and Taxter, A. and Tarvin, S. and Tanner, T. and Taneja, A. and Tambralli, A. and Tal, R. and Taber, S. and Szymanski, A.M. and Syverson, G. and Swaffar, C. and Sutter, M. and Sullivan, J. and Sule, S. and Stringer, E. and Stoll, M. and Stevenson, R. and Stevens, B. and Stern, S. and Sterba Rakovchik, Y. and Stephens, A. and Stapp, H. and Srinivasalu, H. and Spiegel, L. and Spencer, C. and Son, M.B. and Soep, J. and Smitherman, E. and Smith, J. and Sloan, E. and Sivaraman, V. and Singer, N. and Shishov, M. and Shirley, J. and Sherman, M. and Shenoi, S. and Shehab, A. and Sheets, R. and Seper, C. and Schutt, C. and Schulert, G. and Schmitt, E. and Schmeling, H. and Schlefman, A. and Schikler, K. and Schahn, J. and Scalzi, L. and Sarkissian, A. and Saper, V. and Santiago, L. and Sadun, R. and Sabbagh, S. and Ruth, N. and Rubinstein, T. and Rouster-Stevens, K. and Rothman, D. and Rothermel, H. and Rosenwasser, N. and Rosenkranz, M. and Rosado, A. and Ronis, T. and Rogers, D. and Rodriquez, M. and Rodgers, L. and Robinson, L. and Robinson, A. and Riskalla, M. and Rife, E. and Riebschleger, M. and Richard, B. and Reyhan, I. and Reid, H. and Reed, A. and Reed, A. and Ray, L. and Randell, R. and Rahimi, H. and Rafko, J. and Quinlan-Waters, M. and Prahalad, S. and Pooni, R. and Ponder, L. and Pinotti, C. and Perfetto, J. and Paul, S. and Patrick, A. and Patel, P. and Patel, J. and Pappo Toledano, A. and Panupattanapong, S. and Pandya, J. and Pan, N. and Padam, J. and Orandi, A. and Onel, K. and Oliver, M. and Ogbu, E. and Oberle, E. and Oakes, R. and Nowakowski, A. and Nolan, B. and Nocton, J. and Nigrovic, P. and Nguyen, A. and Neely, J. and Natter, M. and Nativ, S. and Nassi, L. and Najafi, A. and Mwizerwa, O. and Muscal, E. and Murray, E.T. and Murphy, A. and Murante, B. and Moyer, A. and Morgan, E. and Moorthy, L. and Moore, K. and Moore, T. and Mohan, S. and Modica, R. and Mitacek, R. and Milojevic, D. and Miettunen, P. and Mian, Z. and McIntosh, L. and McDonald, J. and McDaniels, K. and McCurdy, D. and McBrearty, K. and McAllister, L. and Matossian, S. and Mason, T. and Marzan, K. and Marston, B. and Manos, C. and Mannion, M. and Madison, J. and Machado, A. and Lytch, A. and Lvovich, S. and Lovell, D. and Lo, M. and Livny, R. and Lionetti, G. and Ling, N. and Lin, C. and Limenis, E. and Lim, L. and Lieberman, S. and Li, S. and Levy, D. and Levinsky, Y. and Lerman, M. and Lentini, L. and Lee, T. and Lee, P. and Lee, P. and Laxer, R. and Lawson, E. and Lasky, A. and Lapin, B. and Lapidus, S. and Lang, B. and LaFlam, T. and Lacy, C. and Kremer, C. and Krajewski, D. and Kovalick, L. and Knight, A. and Klein-Gitelman, M. and Klein, K. and Klauss, J. and Kitcharoensakkul, M. and Kingsbury, D. and Kimura, Y. and Kim, S. and Kienzle, B. and Khanam, M. and Kessler, E. and Kasinathan, S. and Kaidar, K. and Kafisheh, D. and Jones, J. and Johnson, N. and Johnson, L. and Jiang, Y. and Jared, S. and Janow, G. and James, K. and Jackson, A. and Inman, C. and Imundo, L. and Ibarra, M. and Hui-Yuen, J. and Huggins, J. and Huber, A. and Hsu, J. and Horton, D. and Hong, S. and Hollander, M. and Holland, M.J. and Hoffart, C. and Hobday, P. and Hiskey, M. and Hiraki, L. and Hersh, A. and Henrickson, M. and Henderson, L. and Hayward, K. and Hays, K. and Hay, A. and Harry, O. and Harris, J. and Haro, S. and Hammelev, E. and Halyabar, O. and Hahn, T. and Guzman, L. and Guevara, M. and Grom, A. and Grim, A. and Griffin, T. and Grevich, S. and Graham, T. and Gottlieb, B. and Goswami, N. and Gorry, S. and Goh, I. and Glaser, D. and Gironella, A.C. and Gilbert, M. and Gerstbacher, D. and Geiszler, M. and Futch-West, T. and Fuller, J. and Fuhlbrigge, R. and Franklin, L. and Fox, M. and Fox, E. and Fogel, L. and Flanagan, E. and Figueroa, C. and Ferguson, I. and Ferguson, P. and Fennell, J. and Feldman, B. and Favier, L. and Fair, D. and Failing, C. and Elzaki, Y. and Elder, M. and Edens, C. and Edelheit, B. and Ede, K. and Eberhard, A. and Dvergsten, J. and Durkee, D. and Dunnock, K. and Duncan, E. and Du, Q. and Driest, K. and Drew, J. and Dizon, B. and Dissanayake, D. and Dhanrajani, A. and Dhalla, M. and Devine, R. and DeSantis, E.L. and Delnay, N. and DeGuzman, M. and Dedeoglu, F. and DeCoste, C. and Dean, J. and De Ranieri, D. and Davis, T. and Datyner, E. and Dalrymple, A. and Dallas, L. and Dagci, A. and Curry, M. and Cron, R. and Cranley, S. and Correll, C. and Corbin, K. and Cooper, J. and Cooper, A. and Cook, K. and Connor, R. and Cohen, E. and Co, D. and Cidon, M. and Ciaglia, K. and Chen, A. and Chang-Hoftman, A. and Chang, J. and Chang, J. and Chang, M. and Chalom, E. and Cartwright, V. and Canny, S. and Cannon, L. and Canna, S. and Cancino, A. and Bullock, D. and Bukulmez, H. and Buckley, M. and Buckley, L. and Brunner, H. and Brown, D. and Brothers, M. and Brooks, E. and Bridges, J. and Boneparth, A. and Bohnsack, J. and Blakley, M. and Blackmon, B. and Black, C. and Binstadt, B. and Bingham, C. and Bigley, T. and Bernal, W. and Bermudez-Santiago, L. and Benham, H. and Bell-Brunson, H. and Beil, E. and Becker, M. and Baszis, K. and Basiaga, M. and Baluta, S. and Ballinger, S. and Balevic, S. and Balboni, I. and Aviran Dagan, N. and Armendariz, S. and Ardoin, S. and Angeles-Han, S. and Amoruso, M. and Amarilyo, G. and Allenspach, E. and AlBijadi, A. and Akoghlanian, S. and Ahmed, H. and Aguiar Lapsia, C. and Adams, A. and Aamir, R.
DOI: 10.1186/s12969-025-01144-w
2025Improving routine mental health screening for depression and anxiety in a paediatric lupus clinic: a quality improvement initiative for enhanced mental healthcare
Lupus Science & Medicine
Tala El Tal and Audrea Chen and Stephanie Wong and Asha Jeyanathan and Avery Longmore and Holly Convery and Dinah Finkelstein and Linda Hiraki and Chetana Kulkarni and Neely Lerman and Karen Leslie and Deborah M Levy and Sharon Lorber and Oscar Mwizerwa and Lawrence Ng and Vandana Rawal and Evelyn Smith and Alene Toulany and Andrea M Knight
DOI: 10.1136/lupus-2024-001282
10/2024Comparing Canadian paediatric rheumatology practice to the 2019 ACR Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis guidelines: Results from the CAPRI Registry
Rheumatology United Kingdom
Park, J. and Batthish, M. and Berard, R.A. and Ch{\'e}deville, G. and Proulx-Gauthier, J.-P. and Rumsey, D.G. and Tucker, L.B. and Wong, S. and Guzman, J. and Cabral, D. and Duffy, C. and Gerhold, K. and Hiraki, L. and Huber, A. and Schmeling, H. and Shiff, N. and Basodan, D. and Bolaria, R. and Bruns, A. and Campillo, S. and Cellucci, T. and Chan, M. and Chhabra, A. and Dancey, P. and Demirkaya, E. and Dhalla, M. and Duffy, K.W. and Gerschman, T. and Heale, L. and Houghton, K. and Human, A. and Jurencak, R. and LeBlanc, C. and Lim, L. and Miettunen, P. and Morishita, K. and Ng, H. and Roth, J. and Rozenblyum, E. and Scuccimarri, R. and Soon, G.
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keac468
2023A case report of a severe neonatal systemic vasculitis on the first day of life
Stephanie Wong and Erkan Demirkaya and Roberta Berard
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-278535/v1
03/2021Starting and stopping kinetics of a rear mounted power assist for manual wheelchairs
Assistive Technology
Stephanie Wong and Ben Mortenson and Bonita Sawatzky
DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2017.1366373
03/2019Learning to use a rear-mounted power assist for manual wheelchairs
Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology
Bonita Sawatzky and W. Ben Mortenson and Stephanie Wong
DOI: 10.1080/17483107.2017.1375562
11/2018 - Research
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Creating a local BC Children’s Hospital cSLE disease registry for current and newly diagnosed patients
In collaboration with the Nephrology department, we are creating a disease registry and collect clinical and research outcomes for future projects.Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) Blood Concentration in Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Pilot Study (Sick Kids Hospital)
The aim of our study is to measure HCQ blood levels in patients with cSLE and correlate drug concentration with dose regimen and SLE disease activity at baseline and over time. Our aim is also to correlate HCQ blood concentration with potential side effects and damage accrual.Honours & Awards2023 - Geoff Carr Fellowship award, Lupus Ontario
Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Dr. Mary E. Brunkow, Dr. Fred Ramsdell, and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. BCCHR's Dr. Megan Levings reflects on the significance of this area of research and how these immune cells could develop treatments for numerous diseases such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, organ rejection, and more.