Chang-Hee Suh has been a professor and director of rheumatology at the Ajou University School of Medicine since March 2011. He obtained his MD in medicine and Ph.D. in rheumatology from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles with more than 6,000 citations. His research interest is the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease, diagnostic and disease activity markers in lupus, and the development of new disease-specific treatments in autoimmune diseases.