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Dr. Susana Serrate-Sztein is a Senior Advisor to the NIAMS Director. Dr. Serrate-Sztein previously served as the Associate Director for Strategic Initiatives, a position she held from 2018 until her retirement in January 2025. She also directed the former NIAMS Division of Skin and Rheumatic Diseases where she oversaw a large portfolio of grants and contracts dealing with the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of skin and rheumatic diseases. In addition, she also directed the Rheumatic Diseases Biopsychosocial Research Program.
Between 1990 and 1993, Dr. Serrate-Sztein was Chief of the Autoimmunity Section of the Division of Allergy Immunology and Transplantation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases where she managed a scientific portfolio dealing with basic and translational research on immune mediated diseases.
Before joining the NIH, Dr. Serrate-Sztein was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, where she worked on cytokine regulation of cell mediated immune responses. She received postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Immunodiagnosis at the National Cancer Institute where she worked on natural killer cell activity against breast tumors in mice. Her clinical training is on anatomic and clinical pathology.
Dr. Sztein is a graduate of Buenos Aires University School of Medicine.