Dr. Ben-Chetrit is a graduate of the Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel. After training in Internal Medicine, Dr Ben-Chetrit was trained in Rheumatology and Immunology at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California.

 In 1991 he gained his subspecialty in Rheumatology.

His main research interests and publications include : pathophysiology of Auto-Immune diseases i.e; Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Sjogren's Syndrome (SS) and immune related Complete Congenital Heart Block. Dr Ben-Chetrit has detected a new antigen (52 KD component of SSA/Ro) and cloned the gene encoding the 60KD component of this antigen. His main current interest is the genetic, patophysiology and therapeutic response of Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). He was a member in the French FMF consortium which identified the gene associated with this disease.

Dr Ben-Chetrit is a recipient of several national and international awards and the author of more than 130 publications and chapters in books.

He is currently a Professor of medicine and runs the FMF Clinic at the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem. He is a visiting professor at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Since 2000 he is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology and a Guest Editor of a yearly issue dedicated to FMF and Behcet's Disease.

For List of Publications see PubMed