Dr. Marinka Twilt is an associate professor in the Department of pediatrics and a clinician scientist at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine and current CARRA JIA committee Chair. 

Dr. Twilt 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 established specific expertise in the field of JIA-associated TMJ arthritis, vasculitis, and precision medicine in JIA. Her current research interests center around JIA-associated TMJ arthritis, Vasculitis, and precision medicine.