Dr. Aimee Hersh received her medical degree from Brown Medical School and completed her residency and clinical fellowship in Pediatric Rheumatology at University of California, San Francisco. She is currently an Associate Professor in Pediatric Rheumatology and Division Chief of Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children’s Hospital. She is an elected member of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) Steering Committee and Chair of the Lupus Committee. Her research focuses on understanding the long-term medical and psychosocial outcomes of patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus and juvenile idiopathic arthritis.