Dr. Kontzias is also an Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr Kontzias has a research focus on autoinflammatory syndromes which are conditions of innate immunity frequently genetically inherited presenting with fever, rash and arthritis. He is the Director of the Autoinflammatory Clinic which operates within the The R. J. Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology. He has established a biobank registry in collaboration with the Genomics Institute at the Cleveland Clinic and has forged national and international collaborations to study these conditions.