Dr. Payam Azali

Consultant Rheumatologist

Specializations

• Investigation, diagnostic and treatment of chronic inflammatory joint diseases (like Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriasis Arthritis or other spondylarthritis)
• Investigation, diagnostic and treatment of autoimmune connective tissue diseases (like Lupus, Sclerodermi, Myositis or Sjögren disease) and autoinflammatory diseases like Familiar Mediterranean Fever
• Vasculitis and Behçet’s
• Inflammatory spinal diseases as Ankylosing spondylitis
• Osteoarthritis
• Gout
• Osteopenia and osteoprosis
• Fibromyalgia
• Biologic antirheumatic therapy
• Advanced antirheumatic therapy for high-risk patients as in pregnancy or other chronic diseases
• Musculoskeletal ultrasound examination of joints and soft tissue and vascular ultrasound ( Large vessel vasculitis- Temporalis Artritis)
• All rheumatologic diagnostic interventions as joint puncture, muscle biopsy, salivary gland biopsy or skin biopsy.
• All kind of intra- and extrarticular injections- ultrasound guided, small and larg joints, temporomandibular joint, bursa or enthesitis

Experience

Dr. Payam Azali is a Swedish Board-Certified consultant rheumatologist with over 12 years of clinical experience in Europe and the UAE. His professional journey includes completing a five-year postgraduate specialist education at the Karolinska Institute, Danderyds University Hospital, and Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. He has over 10 years of clinical experience as a specialist and senior consultant rheumatologist at these hospitals in Stockholm and has also worked as a consultant rheumatologist at hospitals in Dubai and Sharjah.

He served as the head of the rheumatology department at Danderyds University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, for 10 years. He continues to work remotely as a senior consultant rheumatologist at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.

He is a member of the Swedish Rheumatology Society (SRF), the Emirates Society for Rheumatology (ESR), and the Emirates Medical Association (EMA).

Qualifications

• MSK ultrasound certificate from Swedish Rheumatologic UltraSound (sRUL- EULAR)
• Member of Swedish Rheumatology Society (SRF)
• Member of Emirates Society for Rheumatology (ESR)
• Member of Emirates Medical Association (EMA)