Naomi Schlesinger, MD is Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is a co-author of Gout.

Dr. Schlesinger received her medical degree from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and performed a fellowship in Rheumatology at Allegheny University Hospital in Philadelphia. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.

Dr. Schlesinger is a noted authority in the field of gout, having published papers regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and better understanding of the pathogenesis of gout. She is the author of over 190 scientific articles, abstracts, book chapters and reviews.

Currently the President of the New Jersey Rheumatology Association, Dr. Schlesinger is also the Co-chair, American College of Rheumatology – Crystal Study Group- as well as the Co-chair, American College of Rheumatology Abstract Reviewer Selection Process: Metabolic and Crystal Arthropathies. She has a special interest in evidence-based medicine and serves as a co-facilitator of the Acute Gout Review Group for Cochrane International Collaboration as well as a member of the OMERACT Gout Special Interest Organizing Group.