Dr. Janet Pope is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), Schulich School of Medicine, London, Ontario, Canada. She is the Division Head in Rheumatology at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, London. She obtained her MD, and Fellowship in Internal Medicine at UWO and a Fellowship in Rheumatology and Masters of Public Health were acquired at Boston University. She then completed a Canadian Arthritis Society Research Fellowship in Scleroderma.

Her research includes epidemiologic studies in scleroderma, SLE and RA, including outcome measurements, clinical trials and disease manifestations. She has published over 455 peer-reviewed articles, 15 chapters, 500 abstracts and several Cochrane meta-analysis reviews. The h-index is 49 with more than 11,000 citations. She was the lead in the American College of Rheumatology and European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for systemic sclerosis (scleroderma). Mentoring of students and trainees numbers more than 100 for research projects. She was awarded the Lupus Hope Award. She has received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Canadian Rheumatology Association, Rheumatologist of the Year from the Ontario Rheumatology Association, Department of Medicine Research Achievement Award, and the Dean’s Award of Excellence in Research.