Dr. Maleewan graduated with first class honors in receiving a medical degree from Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand and completed Pediatric Residency and combined Allergy/Immunology and Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship training at St. Louis Children’s Hospital at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Dr. Maleewan is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Rheumatology and Immunology as well as Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also the Program Director of the Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine.

, received his MD and MPH from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and School of Hygiene and Public Health, respectively. He completed residency training in internal medicine and fellowship training in rheumatology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a member of the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1977 to 1991. He currently is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health; Head, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology; and Vice Chair, Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine as well as Director, Medical Care Clinical Center, for the VA Maryland Health Care System.

Dr. Hochberg received the Clinical Research Award from the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) in 1999, was named one of only 50 “Postdoctoral Fellow Heroes” by the Arthritis Foundation in 2001, received the Mary Betty Stevens Clinical Research Award from the American College of Physicians (Maryland Chapter) in 2002, the Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 2012, the Lifetime Achievement Award from OARSI in 2013, the Art Modell Presidents Award from the Arthritis Foundation, Maryland Chapter in 2013 and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from both Franklin & Marshall College and The Johns Hopkins University in 2014. He also was named a Master of both the American College of Physicians and the ACR in 2014.

Dr. Marcy B. Bolster is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is the Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Training Program in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; since 2012).Prior to joining the faculty at MGH, she was the Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Training Program at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) for 13 years.With a strong interest in training and education Dr. Bolster has devoted her career to the training of rheumatology fellows, internal medicine residents and medical students.  She values the importance of mentorship in her own professional development as well as through her commitment to sharing her dedication to patient care and education in the rheumatic diseases with learners at all stages of training.  She has helped to train over 50 rheumatology fellows. She is the recipient of the ACR Distinguished Program Director Award (2019) and was named the Mass General Brigham Outstanding Program Director (2019). 

Dr. Bolster has held leadership roles in ACR curriculum design and assessment, ACGME Milestones, and the ABIM Rheumatology Exam Committee, Rheumatology Specialty Board and Council. She has served as Chair, ACR Committee on Training and Workforce (COTW, 2012-2015) and had a leadership role in the graduate medical education (GME) component of the ACR Adult Rheumatology Workforce Study (2015).

Marianna Marques did her medical school and residency in Brazil, and later did her second pediatrics residency at the Boston Combined Residency Program. She spent her first year of pediatric rheumatology at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and then transferred to the program at Children’s National Hospital and at NIH. Last year, she was awarded the distinguished fellow award from the ACR and is now a Shulman Scholar in the Translational Genetics and Genomics Section at NIAMS where she focuses on research in the genomics of SJIA and autoinflammatory diseases.

Dr. Marinka Twilt received her Medical School training in the Netherlands at the Erasmus University. After medical school she proceeded in obtaining her MSc Clinical epidemiology and her PhD at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam before her residency in pediatrics at the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden. Dr. Twilt moved to Canada to perform her pediatric rheumatology training at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Before joining the Alberta Children;s Hospital and University of Calgary as a clinician scientist in 2015, Dr Twilt worked at the Birmingham Children's Hospital in Birmingham, UK and Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus Denmark. Dr Twilt has numerous publications in the field of TMJ arthritis and co-leads the international TMJ juvenile arthritis working (TMJaw) group. Dr Twilt is active in the CARRA registry as a past CARRA registry Associate and current assistant director of the CARRA associate Program and CARRA TMJ interest group.

Mark Hwang is an assistant professor of medicine at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Martha Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Rheumatology at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University. Her clinical interests are SLE, mental health in chronic rheumatic diseases and health disparities.

Dr. Cheatle is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He directs the Pain and Chemical Dependency Research Program within the Center for Studies of Addiction and serves as Director of Behavioral Medicine in the PENN Anesthesia Pain Medicine Center. He has more than three decades experience in the treatment of complex chronic pain conditions, with a particular focus on research and treatment of opioid use disorders in patients with chronic pain, improving pain care and risk of suicide in patients with pain and substance use disorders.

Dr. Margaretten is a clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the Clinical Director of Rheumatology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital where she teaches medical students, residents, and fellows in the rheumatology outpatient clinic and in-patient consult service. Dr. Margaretten is committed to serving vulnerable patients while supporting the three traditional domains of academic medicine – clinical care, research, and education. Her academic interests are improving clinical reasoning skills to enhance physician problem-solving and quality improvement research. In 2016 she was selected as an inaugural Coach for the UCSF School of Medicine Bridges Curriculum. She is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and Council of Master Clinicians.

Mary Beth Son is the Section Chief of Rheumatology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is a co-PI for the CARRA Registry. She has research interests in Kawasaki Disease, MIS-C and pediatric lupus.