Dr Ada Man – Biography

Dr. Ada Man completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Toronto.  She then undertook her Rheumatology residency at the University of British Columbia, and was the recipient of Gurmej Kaur Dhanda Scholarship awards for Systemic Sclerosis in 2011 & 2012.  She spent two years in Boston, USA at the Boston University Scleroderma Research Center for a research fellowship with an emphasis on epidemiology research as applied to Systemic Sclerosis.  Her research was focused on cardiovascular outcomes, interstitial lung disease progression, as well as patient reported outcome measures in Systemic Sclerosis.  She and her team developed the SSPRO – Scleroderma Skin Patient Reported Outcome – which has been validated in Systemic Sclerosis patients, and will be used in clinical trials.  She practices General Rheumatology with a special interest in Systemic Sclerosis at the Manitoba Clinic in Winnipeg, and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.  She is a member of the Canadian working group for stem cell transplant in Systemic Sclerosis