2011 International Scientific Committee

International Scientific Committee

  • Joseph Ahearn, Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President, Allegheny Singer Research Institute-West Penn Allegheny Health System, USA
  • Paul Bacon, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology, Division of Immunity and Infection, Medical School, University of Birmingham, UK
  • Alejandro Balsa, Dr., Servicio de Reumatología, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Spain
  • Hans Bijlsma, Professor and Chair, Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Stefano Bombardieri, Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, ITALY
  • Dimitris Boumpas, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Departments of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete, Greece
  • Peter Brooks, Director, Australian Health Workforce Institute (AHWI), The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Australia
  • Ian Bruce, Professor of Rheumatology, University of Manchester, Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, UK
  • Frank Buttgereit, Deputy Director, Charité University Medicine Berlin (CCM), Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, GERMANY
  • Fernando Cavalcanti, Professor Adjunct, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - BRAZIL
  • Ricard Cervera, Dr., Head of Department Of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, SPAIN
  • Ernest Choy, Professor of Rheumatology and Head of Department, Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK
  • Nemanja Damjanov, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Belgrade University School of Medicine, Head of the Institute, Institute of Rheumatology, Belgrade, SERBIA
  • Christopher Denton, Professor of Experimental Rheumatology, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, Department of Inflammation, Division of Medicine, UCL Medical School, UK
  • Michael Ehrenstein, Professor, Department of Inflammation, UCL Division of Medicine, UK
  • Marc Feldmann, Professor- Clinical, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London, UK
  • Gary Firestein, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Rheumatology Allergy & Immunology, Dean, Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • Daniel Furst, Dr., Director of Therapeutic Research, Profeesor of Rheumatology, UCLA, USA
  • Mauro Galeazzi, Full Professor of Rheumatology, Siena University, Italy
  • J. Hill Gaston, Professor, School of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK   
  • Steffen Gay, Director, Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, SWITZERLAND
  • Richard Glassock, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, USA
  • Juan Jesus Gomez Reino, Professor of Medicine, Head Rheumatology Service, Hospital Clinico Universitario, Universidad de Santiago, Spain
  • Rohini Handa, Senior Consultant Rheumatology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
  • Dorian Haskard, BHF Sir John McMichael Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Head of Vascular Sciences Section, National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Head of the Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Honorary Consultant Physician and Lead Clinician in Rheumatology, Hammersmith Hospital 
  • Kim Ho Youn, MD.,PhD. The Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Republic of Korea
  • David Hunter, Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Gunnar Husby, Institute of Immunology and Rheumatology, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, NORWAY
  • John Isaacs, Professor Of Clinical Rheumatology, Institute Of Cellular Medicine, University Of Newcastle, UK 
  • Layla Kazkaz, MD, PhD,FRCP, Consultant Rheumatologist, President of the Syrian Association for Rheumatology
  • Raashid Luqmani, Consultant Rheumatologist/Senior Lecturer, Rheumatology Department, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, University of Oxford, UK
  • Rizgar A. Mageed, Professor of Experimental Immunology, Bone and Joint Research Unit, The William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK
  • Ravinder Maini, Professor Sir, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology , The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London, UK
  • Emilio Martin Mola, Head of the Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario la Paz, Spain
  • Haralampos Moutsopoulos, Professor and Head, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical School, National University, Athens Greece
  • Ulf Müller-Ladner, Professor, Chair, Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Director, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kerckhoff-Clinic Bad Nauheim, GERMANY
  • Karel Pavelka, Professor, Institute of Rheumatology and Clinic of Rheumatology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Michelle Petri, Professor of Medicine, Director of Lupus Center, Johns Hopkins University Lupus Center, USA
  • Petros Sfikakis, Professor, University of Athens, Greece
  • Alan Silman, Medical Director, Arthritis Research UK
  • Sekib Sokolovic, Associate Professor, Head of Department and Research Clinical Center, University Clinical Center Sarajevo, Department of Rheumatology, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • John Stone, Director, Clinical Rheumatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
  • Tsutomu Takeuchi, Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief of Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine/School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, JAPAN
  • Martinus A.F.J. van de Laar, Professor, Rheumatologist, Medisch Spectrum Twente & University Twente, The Netherlands
  • John Varga, Professor, Director, Division of Rheumatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University , USA
  • Douglas Veale, Professor of Rheumatology, St Vincent’s University Hospital, IRELAND
  • Bruce Volpe, Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, USA.
  • Anthony Woolf, Professor, Department of Rheumatology, Royal Cornwall Hospital, UK
  • Paul Wordsworth, Professor of Clinical Rheumatology, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, UK
  • Jane Worthington, Professor of Chronic Disease Genetics, Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, UK
  • Frank Wollheim, Emeritus professor, Department  of Rheumatology, Lund University, SWEDEN