Dr. Oshrat E. Tayer-Shifman, MD is a Senior Rheumatologist and Head of the Lupus Clinic at Meir Medical Center, and Lecturer at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medicine. She earned her BMedSc (with honors) and MD from the Hebrew University–Hadassah School of Medicine, and completed a clinical research fellowship in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and psoriatic arthritis at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on systemic lupus erythematosus and related autoimmune diseases, with an emphasis on comorbidities, kidney involvement, cognitive impairment, damage accrual, and quality of life. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and contributes to advancing outcome measures in rheumatology through her work with OMERACT. She is a member of the Israeli Society of Rheumatology and the American College of Rheumatology.