Vidya Limaye is a staff specialist Rheumatologist in the Department of Rheumatology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. After completing her rheumatology training she undertook a PhD in the Vascular Biology Laboratory at the Hanson Institute studying the role of sphingosine kinase in inflammation and angiogenesis. She has since established the South Australian Myositis Database; this is a large repository of over 900 patients with myositis which has enabled the study of clinical, epidemiological and immunogenetic aspects of inflammatory myopathies. She has a particular interest in myositis-specific autoantibodies and in the increasingly recognised subgroup of patients with necrotising myopathy.
