✔ Dr. Ziegenbein has excellent clinical skills and a solid medical knowledge foundation obtained from three decades of continuous medical education and two decades of caring for patients.
✔ Dr. Ziegenbein has first-hand experience with an autoimmune rheumatic illness, rheumatoid arthritis, and her own experience with fibromyalgia and chronic pain (non-autoimmune rheumatic conditions) that positions her to be your Rheumatologist of choice. Her lived-in experience with physical pain gives her the “edge” of knowing what it feels like to live with, and especially what it takes to work through pain and make daily decisions while having pain.
✔ Dr. Ziegenbein genuinely cares about her patients and wants them to succeed in all aspects of their lives. She does it by sharing her knowledge, time, compassion, own lived-in experiences and hope.