She graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, and went on to complete her medical residency at Tufts Medical Center. She then completed a clinical and research fellowship in Rheumatology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. During her fellowship, she also attended the Harvard School of Public Health and obtained an MPH. Specific areas of interest include SLE, scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis, and inflammatory myopathies. Elizabeth Matzkin