2011 Speakers/Chairs
Confirmed speakers & chairs listed in alphabetical order
- Joseph Ahearn, Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President, Allegheny Singer Research Institute-West Penn Allegheny Health System, USA
- Aysen Akinci Tan, Professor, General Secretary, Turkish League Against Rheumatism, Ankara, Turkey
- Nurullah Akkoç, Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
- Daniel Aletaha, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Austria
- Şebnem Ataman, MD, Professor, Ankara University, School of Medicine, PM&R Department, Chief of Rheumatology Division, Ankara, Turkey
- Paul Bacon, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology, Division of Immunity and Infection, Medical School, University of Birmingham, UK
- Joan Bathon, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Hans Bijlsma, Professor of Rheumatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Dimitrios T. Boumpas, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine and Head, Department of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece
- Jurgen Braun, Professor, Medical Director, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Rhur-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
- George AW. Bruyn, MD, PhD, Consultant, Rheumatologist, MC Groep IJsselmeerziekenhuizen, Lelystad, The Netherlands
- Frank Buttgereit, Professor, MD, Deputy Director, Charité University Medicine Berlin (CCM), Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Germany
- Fernando Cavalcanti, Professor Adjunct, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
- Philip Cohen, Professor and Chief, Section of Rheumatology, Temple University School of Medicine, USA
- Bernard Combe, Professor of Rheumatology, Rheumatology Department, Lapeyronie Hospital, Montpellier 1 University, Montpellier, France
- Juliet Compston, Professor of Bone Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician, Division of Bone Research, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK
- Maurizio Cutolo, Full Professor of Rheumatology, Director Research Laboratory and Academic Unit of Clinical Rheumatology University of Genova, Director Academic Postgraduate, School of Rheumatology, Medical School - University of Genova, Italy
- Betty Diamond, Investigator/ Head, Center of Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, USA
- Ayhan Dinc, Professor, Gulhane Military School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Ankara, TURKEY
- Haner Direskeneli, Professor, Chief of Rheumatology Department, School of Medicine, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Turkey
- Dirk Elewaut, MD, PhD, Assistant Research Professor of the Research Council, Department of Rheumatology, Gent University, Belgium
- Sukran Ergin, Dr, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
- Andrea Evers, Research and Patient Coordinator Adult care, Department of Medical Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands
- Richard Furie, MD, Chief, Division of Rheumatology and Allergy, Clinical Immunology, North Shore, Long Island Jewish Health System, USA
- Daniel Furst, Director of Therapeutic Research, Professor of Rheumatology, UCLA, USA
- Cem Gabay, Professor of Medicine, Head of the Division of Rheumatology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
- Giampiero Girolomoni, MD, Professor of Dermatology and Head of the Dermatology Section, Department of Biomedical and Surgical Sciences, University of Verona, Italy
- Feride Gogus, Dr, Associate Professor, Gazi University, Ankara, TURKEY
- Walter Grassi, Professor of Rheumatology, Clinica Reumatologica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Ahmet Gul, Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Turkey
- Vedat Hamuryudan, Professor of Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Turkey
- Mieke Hazes, Professor of Rheumatology, Head of Department, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Garry S. Hoffman, Harold C. Schott Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation/Lerner College of Medicine, USA
- Jonathan Kay, M.D., Director of Clinical Research, Division of Rheumatology, Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, USA
- Clive Kelly, Consultant Physician, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK
- George D. Kitas, Professor, Consultant Rheumatologist, Director of Research & Development, Clinical Director, Ambulatory Care, Dudley Group of Hospitals, UK
- Yiannis Koutedakis, Professor in Applied Physiology, University of Thessaly Greece, University of Wolverhampton, UK
- Steven Krilis, Professor, Department of Immunology, Allergy & Infectious Disease St. George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Ayse A. Kucukdeveci, Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Faculty of Ankara University, Turkey
- Tore K. Kvien, Professor, University of Oslo & Head of Department, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Norway
- Robert Lafyatis, Professor of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, USA
- Robert Lahita, Chairman of Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, USA
- Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo, Professor, Helsinki University Central Hospital and Helsinki University, Finland
- Raashid Luqmani, Consultant Rheumatologist/Senior Lecturer, Rheumatology Department, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and University of Oxford, UK
- Ravinder Maini, Professor Sir, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology , The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London, UK
- Walter Makysmowych, Dr., F.R.C.P.(C), Scientist Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Professor of Medicine, Consultant Rheumatologist, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Susan Manzi, Chair, Department of Medicine, West Penn Allegheny Health System, USA
- Charles Masson, MD, Service de Rhumatologie, CHU Angers, France
- Monica Østensen, Consultant, Pregnancy Research Unit, Department of Rheumatology, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Mikkel Østergaard, Professor of Rheumatology/Arthritis, MD, PhD, DMSc, Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark
- Levent Özçakar, Associate Professor, Hacettepe University Medical School, Turkey
- Ömer Pamuk, Associate Professor, Department of Rheumatology, Trakya University Medical Faculty, Turkey
- Andras Perl, Professor of Medicine, Chief of Rheumatology, State University of New York, USA
- Theodore Pincus, Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, USA
- Janet Pope, MD FRCPC MPH, Professor of Medicine and Division Head, Rheumatology, University of Western Ontario, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada
- David M. Reid, Professor of Rheumatology, Head of Division of Applied Medicine, School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Walter Reinisch, MD, Head, Austrian IBD Study Group, Medical University of Vienna, Working Party on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Austria
- Brad H. Rovin, MD, FACP, FASN, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Vice Chairman of Research for Internal Medicine, Director, Division of Nephrology, Director, Acute Dialysis Programs, University Hospitals, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, USA
- David G. I. Scott, Consultant Rheumatologist, Honorary Professor of Rheumatology, Norwich Medical School, Department of Rheumatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, UK
- John Scott, Professor, Consultant in Pulmonary Medicine and Medical Director Lung Transplant Program Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, USA
- Anne Grete Semb, MD, PhD, post doc researcher, Cardiologist, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Nan Shen, Professor of Medicine, Director, Shanghai Institute of Rheumatology , Renji Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, China
- Yehuda Shoenfeld, Professor, Head of Center for Autoimmunity, Department of Medicine ‘B’, Sheba Medical Center (Affiliated to Tel-Aviv University), Israel
- Josef Smolen, Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna and 2nd Department of Medicine, Hietzing Hospital, Austria
- Isaac E. Stillman, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
- John Stone, Clinical Director, Rheumatology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
- Samy Suissa, James McGill Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medicine, McGill University, Director, Centre For Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital - Lady Davis Research Institute, Canada
- Gregory Summers, Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal Derby Hospital, UK
- Deborah Symmons, Professor of Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology, The University of Manchester. Medical Director and Head of the Arthritis research UK Epidemiology Unit, UK
- Paul Peter Tak, Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Peter C. Taylor, Professor, Head of Clinical Trials and Campus Dean, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, Imperial College London, UK
- Kati Thieme, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, USA
- Betty Tsao, Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California - Los Angeles, USA
- George C. Tsokos, Professor, Chief, Rheumatology Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Martinus A.F.J. van de Laar, Professor Dr., Rheumatologist, Medisch Spectrum Twente & University Twente, The Netherlands
- Leo van de Putte, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Bart van den Bemt, Pharmacist/Senior Researcher, Sint Maartenskliniek, The Netherlands
- Laura van Hulst, Department of Rheumatology, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands
- Piet Van Riel, Professor, Head of the Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Walther J. Van Venrooij, Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- John Varga, John and Nancy Hughes Distinguished Professor in Rheumatology, Northwestern University in Chicago, USA
- Carlos Vasconcelos, Head of Clinical Immunology Unit, Centro Hospitalar do Porto – Hospital Santo Antonio, Portugal
- Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine-Rheumatology, Athens University School of Medicine, Greece
- Jiří Vencovský, Vice-director, Head of Research and Laboratory Department, Institute of Rheumatology, Czech Republic
- Bruce Volpe, Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, USA
- Frank Wollheim, Emeritus Professor, MD PhD FRCP, University of Lund Hospital, Sweden
- Hasan Yazici, Professor and Chief Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Turkey
- Alex Zautra, Foundation Professor of Clinical Psychology, Arizona State University, USA
