She obtained her medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. Thereafter, she completed her internal medicine residency at New York Downtown Hospital where she also served as Chief Resident in the Department of Medicine. She then pursued fellowship training in Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine after which she joined the faculty.
She is the Director of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Injection Clinic [MUSIC] and heads the rheumatology musculoskeletal ultrasound program providing exposure and training to fellows at Johns Hopkins, a recognized strength of the fellowship program.
Albayda also has expertise in the inflammatory muscle diseases and evaluates patients at the Johns Hopkins Myositis Center. As noted, Dr. Albayda has a special interest in the role of musculoskeletal ultrasound to further the understanding and care of the rheumatic diseases. These efforts are particularly focused on understanding the role of ultrasound for diagnosis and follow-up of patients with inflammatory muscle disease.
Albayda's research is focused on the areas of arthritis, myositis and imaging with musculoskeletal ultrasound. Clin Exp Rheumatol. Inflammatory myopathy associated with anti-mitochondrial antibodies: A distinct phenotype with cardiac involvement. Semin Arthritis Rheum. Epub Jun Automated diagnosis of myositis from muscle ultrasound: Exploring the use of machine learning and deep learning methods. PLoS One. Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the best score.
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