Dr. Michal Cidon is an assistant professor of pediatrics and Program Director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA). She trained at Stanford University Medical Center with a focus on medical education. Dr. Cidon participated in the APA Educational Scholars Program, focusing on e-Learning in medical education. In 2012 she secured the ACR REF Clinical Scholars Education Award in this area.

She transitioned to CHLA in 2016. Her focus expanded to immune mediated lung disease after her involvement in the ILD-sJIA project. In the fall of 2018, she established the pulmonary division of the DLD Rheumatology Clinic at CHLA. The Clinic provides comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic services to pediatric rheumatic patients with diffuse lung disease and patients with significant immune dysregulation impacting the lungs. The Clinic focuses on studies that evaluate factors and interventions that influence pulmonary clinical outcome in pediatric patients with immune dysregulation.

She serves as the PI on a study with Stanford Children’s Health and Mayo Clinic which focuses on validating an established imaging analysis technique in adults with diffuse lung disease (Computer-Aided Lung Informatics for Pathology Evaluation and Rating [CALIPER]) in children with systemic rheumatologic disease who have acute lung injury and signs of diffuse lung disease (pSRDLD). She is also involved in various research projects which are directed by the Children’s Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance ( CARRA) and is a member of the ChILD research network.