Lihi Eder, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral research fellow
Centre for Prognosis Studies in the
Rheumatic Diseases
Department of Rheumatology
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I graduated from the Ben-Gurion University Medical School in Beer Sheva, Israel in 2002. I completed my internship and residency in internal medicine at the Carmel Medical Centre that is affiliated to the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. During that period I began my training in rheumatology at the same institute and developed an interest in clinical research of psoriatic arthritis.

I came to Toronto in 2008 to complete my training at the Rheumatology department in the University of Toronto. From 2008 to 2011 I have been a clinical research fellow under the supervision of Prof. Dafna Gladman at the Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases. My research focused on identifying genetic and environmental risk factors for psoriatic arthritis among patients with psoriasis. During that period I also obtained a PhD degree in clinical and genetic epidemiology from the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. In 2011 I returned to Israel and worked for a year as an attending physician at the department of rheumatology at the Carmel Medical Centre in Haifa. I returned to Toronto in 2012, to do post-doctoral research, again under the supervision of Prof. Gladman, studying risk factors for progression of atherosclerosis in psoriatic disease.