Dr. Tal Gazitt is a staff rheumatologist at Carmel Hospital at the Lin Multi-Subspecialty Clinic of Clalit Health Services in Haifa, Israel. She is a member of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Ultrasound School of North American Rheumatologists (USSONAR). She currently serves as a preceptor for medical students and rheumatology fellows at Carmel Hospital and is actively involved in the Early Arthritis Clinic and in the microbiome research at Carmel Hospital. She also holds an affiliate instructor position at the University of Washington Division of Rheumatology. Dr. Gazitt graduated with the highest academic honors with a BS in Biology as a Goodrich C. White Scholar from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996, followed by a combined MD/MSc degree in Microbiology and Immunology from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, in 2009, with the highest honors. She then completed her internal medicine residency in the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in 2013, followed by her rheumatology fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, as well as postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Prof. Keith Elkon, focusing on hypercitrullination as a mechanism underlying the immunopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.