Anne R. Bass, MD
Rheumatology
Anne R. Bass, MD
Dr. Bass is an Attending Physician in the Division of Rheumatology at Hospital for Special Surgery and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She specializes in the treatment of patients with autoimmune side effects of cancer immunotherapy, and also sees patients with rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and autoimmune eye and ear disease. Dr. Bass co-directs the HSS Checkpoint inhibitor associated arthritis registry and is doing translational research to better understand this condition.
Patient Stories
Appointments
Attending Physician, Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Departments
Specialized Centers
Special Expertise
Cancer Immunotherapy
Vasculitis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Psoriatic Arthritis
Venous Thromboembolism
Inflammatory Eye Disease
Awards
Castle Connolly Top Regional Doctor, 2014-2020
New York Magazine Top Doctors, 2014-2021
Castle Connolly Top Doctors in New York Metro Area, 2015-2021
Languages
English
Insurance Information
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Industry Relationships
One of the goals of HSS is to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and related disciplines for the benefit of patients. Physicians at HSS may collaborate with outside companies for education, research and medical advances. HSS supports this collaboration in order to foster medical breakthroughs; however HSS also believes that these collaborations must be disclosed.
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As of December 22, 2020, Dr. Bass reported no relationships with healthcare industry.
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Dr. Bass in the News
- A New Rheumatic Disease?
- Flight Risk - 2017
- Genetic Testing Reduces Risk Of Side Effects From Anticoagulation After Surgery
- Genetic testing improves blood thinner dosing
- Customized Coumadin Via Genetic Testing
- Genetic testing can help determine safest dose of warfarin
- Genotype-guided warfarin dosing linked with reduced risk of clinical events after hip, knee arthroplasty
- Study: Genetic Testing Can Help Determine Safest Dose of Common Blood Thinner
- FDA Approves Second Remicade biosimilar
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Medication: Beware of Sunburn if You Take These Drugs
- Flight Risk - 2016
- Racial and Socioeconomic Factors Contribute to Increased Revision Risk Following Joint Replacement
- Why is it so Hard to get a Lyme Disease Diagnosis?
- What You Should Do If You Find a Tick
- Ticks Infected With Lyme Disease and New Pathogen Found in California Parks
- RA Increases Risk for Blood Clots
Education
MD, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
Residency
Fellowship
Certification
Internal Medicine, 1988
Rheumatology, 1992, 2002, 2012
State Licensure
Patient Education by Dr. Bass on HSS.edu
Blog Posts by Dr. Bass
Selected Books by Dr. Bass
Bass AR. “Venous Thromboembolism and Orthopedic Surgery” in Perioperative Care of the Orthopedic Patient. MacKenzie CR, Cornell CN, Memtsoudis SG eds. Springer 2019
Bass AR, Rogatsky I. Immunomodulatory drugs. Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine. 26th edition. Goldman, Schafer ed. Elsevier 2019
Selected Publications
Papers:
Goodman SM, Mandl LA, Parks ML, Zhang M, McHugh KR, Lee Y-Y, Nguyen JT, Russell LA, Bogardus MH, Figgie MP, Bass AR. Disparities in total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: Census Tract Data Demonstrates Interactions between Race and Poverty. Clinical orthopaedics and related research. 2016; 474(9):1986-95. PMID: 27278675, PMCID: PMC4965380
Bass, AR, McHugh K, Fields K, Goto R, Goodman S. Higher Knee Arthroplasty Revision Rates among U.S. Blacks: a Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis J Bone Joint Surg (Am) 2016; 98(24):2103-2108. PMID: 28002374.
Gage BF, Bass AR, Lin H, Woller SC, Stevens SM, Al-Hammadi N, Li J, Rodríguez T Jr, Miller JP, McMillin GA, Pendleton RC, Jaffer AK, King CR, Whipple BD, Porche-Sorbet R, Napoli L, Merritt K, Thompson AM, Hyun G, Anderson JL, Hollomon W, Barrack RL, Nunley RM, Moskowitz G, Dávila-Román V, Eby CS. Effect of Genotype-Guided Warfarin Dosing on Clinical Events and Anticoagulation Control Among Patients Undergoing Hip or Knee Arthroplasty: The GIFT Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2017 Sep 26;318(12):1115-112
Bolster MB, Bass A, Monrad S, Ditmyer M, Batttafarano D. 2015 ACR/ARHP Workforce Study in the U.S.: The Role of Graduate Medical Education (GME) in Adult Rheumatology. Arthritis Rheum 2018 PMID 29399986
Bass AR, Mehta B, Szymonifka MA, Lyman S, Lai E, Parks M, Figgie M, Mandl L, Goodman S. Racial Disparities in Total Knee Replacement Failure Are Not Explained by Poverty. AC&R. EPub 2019. PMID 31309739
Gage BF, Bass AR, Lin H, Woller S, Stevens S, Al-Hammadi N, Li J, Rodriguez T, Miller JP, McMilin G, Pendleton R, Jaffer A, King C, DeVore B, Porche-Sorbet R, Napoli L, Merritt K, Thompson A, Hyun G, Anderson J, Hollomon W, Barrack R, Nunleys R, Moskowitz G, Davila-Roman V, Eby C. Genetics Informatics Trial (GIFT) of Warfarin to Prevent Deep Venous Thrombosis: Safety of a Target INR 1.8. JAMA 2019 322(9):834-842. PMID 31479138; PMCID PMC6724181
Chan KK, Margro C, Shoushtari A, Rudin C, Rotemberg V, Rossi A, Lezcano C, Carrino J, Fernandez D, Postow MA, Apollo A, Lacouture ME, Bass AR. “Eosinophilic Fasciitis Following Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: Four Cases and a Review of Literature”. The Oncologist 2019 Oct Epub 2019 Oct 15.PMID: 32043775
Chan KK, Bass AR. Autoimmune Complications of Immunotherapy: Pathophysiology and Management. British Medical Journal Apr 6. PMID: 32253223
Ghosh N, Tiongson MD, Stewart. C, Chan KK, Jivanelli B, Cappelli L, Bass AR. Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Arthritis: A Systematic Review of Case Reports and Case Series. J Clin Rheumatol. 2020.PMID: 32345841
Chan KK, Tirpack A, Vitone G, Benson C, Nguyen J, Ghosh N, Jannat-Khah D, Bykerk V, Bass AR. Higher checkpoint inhibitor arthritis disease activity may be associated with cancer progression: Results from an observational registry in ACR Open Rheumatology 2020 ePub
Ghosh N, Tirpack A, Chan KK, Bass AR. Impact of COVID-19 on patients with rheumatic complications of cancer immunotherapy: results of a registry survey. J Immunother Cancer. 2020 Oct;8(2):e001550. PMID: 33067320; PMCID: PMC7569707.
Abstracts:
Runci Wang, Karmela Kim Chan, Amy Cunningham-Bussel, Gregory Vitone, Aidan Tirpack, Caroline Benson, Gregory Keras, A. Helena Jonsson, Michael B. Brenner, Laura T. Donlin, Anne R. Bass*, Deepak A. Rao* Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Arthritis Synovial Fluid Mononuclear Cells: High-Dimensional Analyses Reveals a Unique, Proliferating CD38hi Cytotoxic CD8 T Cell Population Induced by Type 1 IFN. * co-senior authors. Plenary ACR Convergence, November 2020
Anne Bass, Bella Mehta, Peter Sculco, Yi Zhang, Huong Do, Linda Russell and Susan Goodman. The Risk of Venous Thromboembolism After Septic Total Knee Replacement (TKR) Revision Is Double the Risk After Aseptic TKR Revision: An Analysis of Administrative Discharge Data. Oral presentation ACR Convergence, November 2020
Nilasha Ghosh, Karmela Kim Chan, Bridget Jivanelli and Anne Bass. Over Half of Patients with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-related Myositis, Myasthenia Gravis and/or Myocarditis Have Autoantibodies: Results from a Systematic Literature Review. Poster ACR Convergence, November 2020
Research Interests
- Are racial disparities in TKR revision risk explained by hospital or surgeon choice? (CJRC grant)
- Biomarkers of checkpoint inhibitor-associated arthritis & autoimmunity (PI Karmela Chan)