Speakers/Chairs
Joseph Ahearn
Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President, Allegheny Singer Research Institute; Temple University School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
John Atkinson
Dr, Professor of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology; Interim Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
Paul Bacon
Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology, Division of Immunity and Infection, Medical School, University of Birmingham, UK
Dominique Baeten
University of Amsterdam,THE NETHERLANDS
Xenophon Baraliakos
Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, GERMANY
Michael Becker
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Department of Rheumatology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Alisa Bosworth
Chief Executive National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, UK
Simon Bowman
Consultant Rheumatologist & Honorary Clinical Reader, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Juergen Braun
Medical Director, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, & Professor of Rheumatology, Ruhr University Bochum, & Professor of Rheumatology, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Sue Brown
Clinical Nurse Specialist in Connective Tissue Diseases, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK
Ian Bruce
Professor of Rheumatology, University of Manchester, Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, UK
Rubén Burgos-Vargas
Professor, Hospital General De Mexico and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO
Nele Caeyers
Tools, BELGIUM
Fernando Cavalcanti
Professor Adjunct, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Ricard Cervera
Dr., Head of Department Of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, SPAIN
Vinod Chandran
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Karen H. Costenbader
Associate Physician and Co-Director, Lupus Center, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Maria J Cuadrado
Dr., Consultant Rheumatologist, Lupus Research Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Eugenio de Miguel
Hospital Universitario La Paz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SPAIN
Betty Diamond
M.D. Head, The Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore LIJ – Health Systems, New York, USA
Ben Dijkmans
VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Michael Doherty
Professor of Rheumatology and Head of Academic Rheumatology, University of Nottingham, UK
Jaap Fransen
Clinical Epidemiologist, Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS
Armen Yuri Gasparyan
MD, PhD, FESC, Associate Professor of Medicine, ARMENIA
Juan Jesus Gomez-Reino
Professor of Medicine, Head Rheumatology Unit, Hospital Clinico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Miguel A. Gonzalez-Gay
Head, Rheumatology Section, Hospital Universitario Marques De Valdecilla Santander, Spain
Walter Grassi
Clinica Reumatologica-Universita Politecnica Delle Marche, ITALY
Piet Geusens
Professor, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center & University Hasselt, Maastricht, The Netherlands & Biomedical Research Center, University Hasselt, Belgium
Loic Guillevin
Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics & Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Cochin Hospital, University of Paris Descartes, Paris, FRANCE
Elizabeth Hale
Chartered Health Psychologist / Research Psychologist, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley, UK
John Hamburger
Senior Clinical Lecturer & Honorary Consultant in Oral Medicine University of Birmingham, UK
Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont
MD, Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Autonoma University of Madrid, Director of Bone and Joint Research Laboratory, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Spain
Raphael Hirsch
Aldo V. Londino Professor of Pediatrics, Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
Marc C. Hochberg
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health and Head, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, USA
Gary S. Hoffman
Professor of Medicine, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, Cleveland Clinic/Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
Diane Home
Consultant Nurse – Rheumatology, West Middlesex University Hospital, Nurse Advisor for England to National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, UK
Holly John
Rheumatology Research Fellow, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley, UK
Jonathan Kay
M.D., Director of Clinical Research/ Professor of Medicine, Divis. of Rheumatology/ University of Massachusetts Medical School, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Sylvia S.M. Kamphuis
MD, PhD, Dr, Pediatric rheumatologist/Immunologist, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Erasmus University MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Munther A. Khamashta
Reader / Consultant Physician, Director, Lupus Research Unit, The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas’ Hospital , London, UK
Rodanthi C. Kitridou
MD, FACP, MACR, Professor Emerita of Medicine (Rheumatology) USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
Rainer Klocke
PhD, MRCP (UK); Consultant Rheumatologist, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley; and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Division of Immunity, Infection and Rheumatology, University of Birmingham & Department of Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Research Group, University of Manchester/ UK
Margreet Kloppenburg
MD, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden, The Netherlands
Steven Krilis
Professor, Department of Immunology, Allergy & Infectious Diseases, St. George Hospital, University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Marja Kruithof
Secretary, Lupus Europe, UK
Annegret Kuhn
Associate Professor, Senior Physician (dermatology), Department of Dermatology, University of Muenster, GERMANY
Tore K. Kvien
Professor, University of Oslo & Head of Department, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Norway
Floris Lafeber
Manager of Research, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Rheumatology (F02.127), THE NETHERLANDS
Nancy Lane
Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology, University of California at Davis Medical Center, California, USA
Raashid Luqmani
Professor of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford, UK
Susan Manzi
Professor of Medicine, Temple University. Chair Medicine, West Penn Allegheny Health System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ana Marušić
MD, PhD, Prof, Department of Anatomy and Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Philip Mease
MD, Seattle Rheumatology Associates, Director, Division of Rheumatology Research, Swedish Medical Center & Clinical Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Joan T. Merrill
Head, Clinical Pharmacology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma, USA
Robert Moots
Professor of Rheumatology, University of Liverpool, Clinical Sciences Centre, University Hospital Aintree, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool, UK
Juan Mulero Mendoza
MD, Head of the Rheumatology Service, Associate Professor, UAM, Hospital Puerta De Hierro Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
Esperanza Naredo
Rheumatologist, Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa, Madrid, SPAIN
Federico Navarro
Head, Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain
Frank Nestle
Professor, Mary Dunhill Chair of Cutaneous Medicine, Kings College London, UK
Peter Norton
Treasurer, Lupus Europe, UK
Yvonne Norton
MBE, Chair, LUPUS EUROPE, UK
Susan Oliver
Nurse Consultant Rheumatology, Independent Nurse Consultant, Susan Oliver Associates, Devon, UK
Monika Ostensen
Consultant, Department of Rheumatology, Sörlandet Hospital, Kristiansand, Norway
Gabriel S Panayi
Professor Emeritus of Rheumatology, King's College London, Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust UK, London, UK
Eliseo Pascual
Professor of Medicine, University Migel Hernandez and Head Rheumatology Section, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Spain
Philip Perkins
NHS Trust, UK
Andras Perl
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Co-Director, M.D., Ph.D. Program, State University of New York, UMU, College of Medicine, USA
Michelle Petri
Professor of Medicine, Director of Lupus Center, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA
Ross Petty
Professor, University of British Columbia and British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, CANADA
David S. Pisetsky
MD, PhD, Chief, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, and Director, Duke University Arthritis Center, USA
Gina Plunkett
Chiarperson, Chronic Pain Ireland, IRELAND
Athimalaipet Ramanan
Dr, Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children & Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, UK
Manuel Ramos-Casals
Specialist Physician, Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, SPAIN
Lisa Rider
MD, Deputy Chief, Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Brad H. Rovin
Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Vice Chairman of Research for Internal Medicine, Director, Division of Nephrology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA
David G.I. Scott
Hon. Consultant Rheumatologist, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Hon. Professor of Rheumatolgy, Norwich Medical School, Chief Medical Advisor to the National Rheaumtoid Arthritis Society, UK
Anne Grete Semb
MD, PhD, senior researcher,Leader preventive cardio-Rheuma Clinic, Cardiologist, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Peter Sfikakis
Professor, University of Athens, GREECE
Nan Shen
Professor of Medicine, Director, Shanghai Institute of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital, JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, CHINA
Georg Schett
Prof. MD, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Robert Shmerling
Clinical Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Senior Editor, Harvard Health Publications, Boston MA, USA
Yehuda Shoenfeld
Professor, Head, Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center (affiliated to Tel-Aviv University), ISRAEL
Joachim Sieper
Rheumatology, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin Germany
Richard Silver
Distinguished University Professor, Interim Chairman, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Isaac E. Stillman
MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
Tsutomu Takeuchi
Professor of Medicine, Chief of Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine,School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, JAPAN
Gareth Treharne
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Auckland, New Zealand
Paul P. Tak
MD PhD, Professor of Medicine, Div. Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lai-Shan Tam
MD, Professor, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
Peter Taylor
MA, PhD, FRCP , Norman Collison Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences Botnar Institute Nuffield, Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Oxford, UK
Maria Trojanowska
PhD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Arthritis Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
George C. Tsokos
Chief, Rheumatology Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma
Associate Professor Rheumatology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jacob M. van Laar
Professor of Clinical Rheumatology, Musculoskeletal Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, The Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Mart A.F.J. van de Laar
Professor, Dr., Rheumatologist, Medisch Spectrum Twente & University Twente, THE NETHERLANDS
Piet Van Riel
Head of the Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS
John Varga
John and Nancy Hughes Distinguished Professor in Rheumatology, NorthWestern University in Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Douglas Veale
Professor of Rheumatology, St’ Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Jack T. Watters
Vice President for External Medical Affairs, Pfizer, NY, USA
Maarten de Wit
Representative for research and international collaboration, Dutch League of Arthritis Patient organisations, Zaltbommel, The Netherlands
Frank Wollheim
Emeritus Professor, MD PhD FRCP, University of Lund Hospital, SWEDEN
Patricia Woo
Emeritus Professor, Paediatric Rheumatology, University College London, UK
Nico Wulfraat
Dept. Pediatric Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Hasan Yazici
Professor and Chief Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Turkey
Pierre Yves Youinou
Professor of Immunology, Brest University Medical School, FRANCE
