Ori Elkayam
Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel
Professor Ori Elkayam is Head of the department of Rheumatology, at the Tel Aviv Medical Center. She has completed her studies of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University and her training in rheumatology at the Tel Aviv Medical Center.
She was the President of the Israeli Society of Rheumatology from 2011 to 2017 and has published more than 190 publications in leading journals of rheumatology.
Her main clinical fields of interest are vaccination in rheumatic diseases, spondyloarthritis and interventional rheumatology.
Prof. Elkayam is a leading researcher on the effect of vaccinations in autoimmune diseases, being the chair of the EULAR task aimed at formulating the EULAR recommendations for vaccination in auto-immune inflammatory diseases. She is one of the architect of the Israeli Registry of rheumatic patients treated with biologics.
