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.
Attending Physician, Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Cancer Immunotherapy
Vasculitis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Psoriatic Arthritis
Venous Thromboembolism
Inflammatory Eye Disease
Castle Connolly Top Regional Doctor, 2014-2020
New York Magazine Top Doctors, 2014-2020
Castle Connolly Top Doctors in New York Metro Area, 2015-2020
English
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MD, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
Internal Medicine, 1988
Rheumatology, 1992, 2002, 2012
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
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.
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