Dr. 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 gain 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).
He was a member in the French FMF consortium which identified
the gene associated with this disease.
Dr Ben-Chetrit is a recipient of several national and international
awards and the author of more than 130 publications and chapters
in books. He is currently a Professor of medicine and runs the
FMF Clinic at the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem.
He is a visiting professor at the Oklahoma Medical Research
Foundation. 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. He is currently director of Student Health Service.
