Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD, is the Scoville Endowed Chair and Head of the Division of Rheumatology and an associate professor of medicine and of immunology and microbiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. Her research program focuses upon mechanistically connecting the microbiome, metabolome, and mucosal immune changes during the development of animal models and in human cohorts of rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis.