Professor Ben-Chetrit is a graduate of the Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel. After training in Internal Medicine, Dr Ben-Chetrit was trained in Rheumatology and Immunology at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California.
In 1991 he gained his subspecialty in Rheumatology.
His main research interests and publications include: pathophysiology of Auto-Immune diseases i.e; Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Sjogren's Syndrome (SS) and immune related Complete Congenital Heart Block. Dr Ben-Chetrit has detected a new antigen (52 KD component of SSA/Ro) and cloned the gene encoding the 60KD component of this antigen. His main current interest is the genetic, patophysiology and therapeutic response of Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and Behcet's disease (BD). He was a member in the French FMF consortium which identified the gene associated with FMF and recently (2010) he participated in the NIH study which discovered the association of a SNP in the gene encoding IL-10 with Behcet's disease.
Prof. Ben-Chetrit is a recipient of several national and international awards and the author of more than 200 publications and chapters in books.
He is currently a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Rheumatology Unit and the FMF Clinic at the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem. He is a visiting professor at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (1996), Stanford University (2004) and McGill Universities (2010). During the years 1997-2000 and 2007-8 he served as Head of the Department of Medicine at Hadassah.
Since 2000 he is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal of Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology and a Guest Editor of a yearly issue dedicated to FMF and Behcet's Disease. Recently he became a deputy Editor of a new rheumatology journal (Letters to the Editor Rheumatology -LER)