Dr. Kyttaris is the rheumatology training program director at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). He is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kyttaris received his medical degree in 1994 from the University of Patras, Greece. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine in 2001. He subsequently completed fellowships in rheumatology at Washington Hospital Center, and in autoimmune diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research/Washington Hospital Center. Dr. Kyttaris specializes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). His research focuses on the role of T cells in the pathogenesis of SLE and especially how aberrant cooperation between T and B cells result in overproduction of pathogenic autoantibodies.

Dr. Victoria Werth is a Professor of Dermatology and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Dermatology at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital. Dr. Werth earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and dermatology residency and immunodermatology fellowship at New York University School of Medicine in New York. She joined the faculty at Penn in 1989 and has developed an internationally recognized program in autoimmune skin diseases.

Dr. Vidya Sivaraman is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital. She is the Director of Quality Improvement for the rheumatology division. Her research interests include childhood vasculitis, scleroderma and vaccination in children with rheumatic diseases.

Dr. Steen is a clinical research physician at Georgetown University.

After completing his residency at Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, Dr. Vladimir Despotovic completed a two year Rheumatology fellowship program at Washington University in St. Louis in 2009.

Post Rheumatology fellowship, Dr. Despotovic continued to follow his love of learning into a fellowship with the Pulmonary Critical Care Program at Washington University. Dr. Despotovic currently holds joint appointments with both Rheumatology and Pulmonary Critical Care Divisions at WashU as an Associate Professor.  

He attends and treats critically ill patients on the Medical ICU and Bone Marrow Transplant Services while also treating patients with Rheumatologic disorders in the inpatient and outpatient settings. He continues to teach trainees of all ranks with his unique perspective.