Atrium Health Provider
Accepts New Patients
Treats All Ages
In-person visits only“I enjoy helping patients sort through challenges that arise with rheumatic disease, which often cultivates long-term relationships.”
Dr. Peta-Gay Ricketts is board certified in internal medicine. She focuses on treating rheumatic diseases. She has clinical interests in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and other spondyloarthropathies (joint diseases of the vertebral column), lupus, Sjogren’s disease, polymyalgia rheumatica, scleroderma and inflammatory myopathies.
Additionally, she treats vasculitis and other autoimmune connective tissue disorders, gout and other crystalline arthropathies, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.
Dr. Rickett’s interest in rheumatology began while she was working as a research assistant in the Department of Autoimmune Disease at The Feinstein Institute-Northwell Health.
During medical school, she received a Medical Student Preceptorship award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation. She completed the National Medical Fellowships Diversity in Clinical Trials Research program through National Medical Fellowships (NMF).
Dr. Rickett received her master’s degree in biology at Seton Hall University and her degree in osteopathic medicine at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed residency at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital and a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.
She was the co-author on 2 peer-reviewed publications in The Journal of Immunology and in Rheumatology.
