Rula Hajj-Ali, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Vasculitis Center for Care and Research, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Disease and at the Cleveland Clinic, she is board-certified in internal medicine and Rheumatology. Dr. Hajj-Ali is a graduate of the American University of Beirut medical school in Lebanon. She performed her internal medicine training at American University of Beirut medical school in Lebanon, Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester NY and the Cleveland Clinic, followed by fellowship in rheumatic and immunologic disease at the American University of Beirut and the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases at the Cleveland Clinic. She joined the Staff at the Cleveland Clinic in 2002 She holds an academic rank of Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. She is the Vice Chair for Quality and Safety for Rheumatology at the Cleveland Clinic Dr. Hajj-Ali has a particular interest in systemic inflammatory disease and vascular inflammatory disease including systemic vasculitis, central nervous system vasculitis and inflammatory eye disease. Her clinical and research interests include central nervous system vasculitis, giant cell arteritis, Behçet’s Disease, Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis and Inflammatory Eye diseases. Dr. Hajj-Ali, is the Founder and Director of many Multidisciplinary programs at the Cleveland Clinic including the CNS vasculitis Clinic and the Inflammatory Eye Disease Clinic. Dr. Hajj-Ali holds the alpha omega alpha honor and was elected as “America’s Top Physicians “and received the Cleveland Society of Rheumatology Best Fellow award, and the Clinical Research Award from the American Heart Association. She has been awarded the “Teacher of the Year award “in recognition to her excellence and dedication to the education of the fellows, residents and medical students. She has been elected by her peers as the “Best Doctors in America” and received the Castle Connolly Top Doctor for 2019 and 2020 along the Castle Connolly’s Exceptional Women in Medicine award. She has lectured at various national and international scientific meetings. Her work in CNS vasculitis has been published in leading professional and scientific journals. She is the author of multiple chapters in major books for the topic of CNS vasculitis. She chairs the international consortium for the longitudinal Study for Central Nervous System Vasculitis. Dr. Hajj-Ali is a member of numerous societies including the American College of Rheumatology and American College of Physicians. She is currently a consultant for the Vasculitis Foundation. She has served repeatedly in several committees for the American College of Rheumatology. Dr. Hajj-ali has lectured nationally and internationally on the subjects of Vasculitis, CNS vasculitis and inflammatory eye diseases.