Dr. Lovely Kumari

• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Spondyloarthritis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Inflammatory myopathy
• Sjogrens disease
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• Systemic sclerosis
• Vasculitis
• Fibromyalgia
• IgG4RD
• Biologicals and immunotherapy

• DM (Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology), JIPMER, Puducherry
• DrNB (Internal Medicine), NBE
• MD (Internal Medicine) UCMS and GTB Hospital New Delhi
• MBBS, Pt JNM Medical College Raipur, Chhattisgarh

• Assistant Professor, Clinical Immunology
• Rheumatology, JIPMER Puducherry

• IRA Travel grant for ACR 2024: Received ₹50,000 INR travel funding from IRA to attend the ACR 2024 conference.
• ICMR Travel grant for non-scientist international conference 2024: Awarded ₹117,000 INR by ICMR for international conference participation as a non-scientist delegate.
• KCR travel grant for oral presentation 2025: Secured $1,000 USD travel grant from KCR for delivering an oral presentation at their 2025 conference
• 2nd prize -CRC 2026 Quiz at Hyderabad

• Member of Indian Rheumatology Association

Research & Publications:

• Performance of IMACS malignancy risk stratification in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: a single-centre retrospective cohort study from India -Indian Journal of Rheumatology
• Case series: The overlapping spectrum of primary tubercular myositis and immune mediated myositis: diagnostic challenges In three cases -American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene