Dr. Hoftman received her medical degree from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and completed a Pediatrics Internship/Residency and a Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship at the UCLA Medical Center. She worked at CHOC Children's for 2.5 years before returning to UCLA in 2011. Her clinical interests include juvenile idiopathic arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, but she also sees patients with all rheumatologic illnesses. Dr. Hoftman employs the use of ultrasound to assist in the clinical evaluation of childhood rheumatologic diseases. Her research interest focuses on autoantigens and autoantibodies in lupus. Miriam Parsa, MD, MPH