Dr. Akhavan runs the Early Arthritis clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital. Her main research interests include outcome measures and prognostic modeling in early RA, knowledge transfer, clinical practice guidelines and quality indicators in rheumatic diseases. She collaborates with two Canadian observational studies, Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort (CATCH) and Ontario Best Practice Research Initiative, as a clinician investigator. Dr. Akhavan also collaborates with Canadian Rheumatology Ultrasound Society (CRUS) on several research projects and teaches Point-of-Care Ultrasound to U of T rheumatology trainees.