Maria Dall’Era is the Jean S. Engleman Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

She is Director of the UCSF Rheumatology Clinical Research Center and Lupus Clinic. She also serves as the Chair of the Lupus Clinical Investigators Network (LuCIN) and is a steering committee member of the Lupus Academy, Lupus Forum, and the Lupus 21st Century annual conference. She is the PI of a CDC-funded population- based longitudinal lupus cohort in the San Francisco Bay Area called the California Lupus Epidemiology Study and the PI on clinical trials focused on SLE and lupus nephritis.

She completed her Medical Degree in 1997, from the University of California, San Francisco, where she later completed her Internship and Residency, and became Chief Resident and the Fellow. She has authored numerous publications in the areas of SLE and lupus nephritis. She is a co-author of the Treatment of Lupus Nephritis chapter in Up-To-Date. She received the Edmund L. Dubois Memorial Lectureship Award from the American College of Rheumatology and the Evelyn V. Hess award from the Lupus Foundation of America.

Her research interests include systemic lupus erythematosus, lupus nephritis, novel biologic agents, lupus nephritis outcomes, and clinical trials.