Marinka Twilt, MD, PhD, MSc

Alberta Children's Hospital
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr Marinka Twilt is a Professor of Pediatrics and Clinician scientist at the University of Calgary and pediatric rheumatologist at the Alberta Children's Hospital. She received her Medical School training in the Netherlands at the Erasmus University. After medical school she proceeded in obtaining her MSc Clinical epidemiology and her PhD at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam before her residency in pediatrics at the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden. Dr Twilt moved to Canada to perform her pediatric rheumatology training at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Before joining the Alberta Children’s Hospital and University of Calgary as a clinician scientist in 2015, Dr Twilt worked at the Birmingham Children's Hospital in Birmingham, UK and Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus Denmark. Dr Twilt has numerous publications in the field of TMJ arthritis and co-leads the international TMJ juvenile arthritis working (TMJaw) group. Dr Twilt is active in the CARRA registry as the CARRA JIA committee Chair and co-lead for the inactive disease working group. Dr Twilt’s research interests are in JIA-associated TMJ arthritis and precision medicine.

Presentation(s):

• Toward a Cure for Childhood Arthritis

  Monday, October 27, 2025
  10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Central Time

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose