Josefina Gracia Duran is an Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile, Santiago, Chile. She is a specialist in Internal Medicine Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Master of Science in Epidemiology Boston University. School of Public Health. Mass. USA Later she served as a Research Assistant in the clinical Epidemiology and Research Training Unit. Boston University. USA she Recently she rejoined our department. She directs a FONIS project on Rheumatoid Arthritis and a sub-project of the National Health Survey to determine the prevalence of Rheumatoid arthritis in Chile. She directs the Department's PROGRAM for People with Rheumatoid Arthritis (PROSPERAR).