Speakers/Chairs

Confirmed speakers & chairs listed in alphabetical order*

1. Joseph Ahearn, Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President, Allegheny Singer Research Institute-West Penn Allegheny Health System, USA
2. Nurullah Akkoc, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dokuz Eylul Universit,Turkey
3. Daniel Aletaha, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Austria
4. Joan Bathon, Professor, John Hopkins University, USA
5. J.W.J. Bijlsma, Professor and Chair, Dept of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht , The Netherlands 
6. Dimitris Boumpas, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Departments of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete, Greece
7. George AW Bruyn, MD, PhD, Consultant Rheumatologist, Medical Centre Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
8. Frank Buttgereit, Professor, Deputy Director, Charité University Medicine Berlin (CCM), Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Germany 
9. Philip Cohen, Professor and Chief, Section of Rheumatology, Temple University School of Medicine, USA
10. Bernard Combe, Professor, Departement de rhumatologie,Hopital Lapeyronie, CHU Montpellier, France
11. Juliet Compston, Professor of Bone Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician, Division of Bone Research, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK
12. Betty Diamond, Investigator, Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease, USA
13. Haner Direskeneli, Professor, Chief of Rheumatology Department, Department of Rheumatology, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Turkey
14. Andrea Evers, Research coordinator & Principal Investigator Medical Psychology / Patient Coordinator Adult Care, Radboud University Nijmegen, Medical Centre,  The Netherlands
15. Bruce Furie, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
16. Richard Furie, Dr. Chief, Division of Rheumatology and Allergy, Clinical Immunology, North Shore, Long Island Jewish Health System, USA
17. Daniel Furst, Dr., Director of Therapeutic Research, Professor of Rheumatology, UCLA, USA
18. Cem Gabay, Associate Professor of Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Head, Division of Rheumatology, Geneva, Switzerland
19. Walter Grassi, Prof, Director of the Postgraduate School in Rheumatology at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, and Chief of the Rheumatology Clinic at the Jesi Medical Center, Ancona, ITALY
20. Ahmet Gul, Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Turkey
21. Mieke (J.M.W.) Hazes, MD, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Rheumatology Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
22. Garry S. Hoffman, Harold C. Schott Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation/Lerner College of Medicine, USA
23. Jonathan Kay, M.D., Director of Clinical Research, Rheumatology, Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, UMass Memorial Medical Center, USA
24. Clive Kelly, Consultant Physician, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK
25. George D. Kitas, Consultant Rheumatologist, Director of Research & Development, Clinical Director, Ambulatory Care, Dudley Group of Hospitals, UK
26. Yiannis Koutedakis, Professor in Applied Physiology, University of Thessaly Greece, University of Wolverhampton, UK
27. Tore Kvien, Professor, University of Oslo, Head of Department, Dept of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, NORWAY
28. Robert Lahita, Chairman of Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, USA
29. Robert Lafyatis, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Boston University, USA
30. Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo, Professor, Helsinki University Central Hospital and Helsinki University, Finland
31. Raashid Luqmani, Consultant Rheumatologist/Senior Lecturer, Rheumatology Department, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and University of Oxford, UK
32. Ravinder Maini, Professor Sir, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology , The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London, UK
33. Susan Manzi, MD, MPH, Chair, Department of Medicine West Penn Allegheny Health System, Vice Chair and Professor of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, USA
34. Charles Masson, MD, Service de Rhumatologie, France
35. Monica Østensen, Pregnancy Research Unit, Dep. of Rheumatology, University of Bern, Switzerland
36. Mikkel Østergaard, Professor of Rheumatology, MD, PhD, DMSc, Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospitals at Hvidovre and Glostrup, Denmark
37. Levent Özçakar, Associate Professor, Hacettepe University Medical School, Turkey
38. Andras Perl, Professor of Medicine, Chief of Rheumatology, State University of New York, USA
39. Theodore Pincus, Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, USA
40. Janet Pope, MD FRCPC MPH, Professor of Medicine and Division Head, Rheumatology, University of Western Ontario, Shculich School of Medicine & Dentistry, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London Ontario Canada
41. David Reid, Professor of Rheumatology, Head of Division of Applied Medicine & Interim Co-Director of the Institute of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, UK
42. 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
43. David GI. Scott, Consultant Rheumatologist, Honorary Professor of Rheumatology, Clinical Director Comprehensive Local Research Network for Norfolk and Suffolk, Patient Involvement Officer Royal College of Physicians, Chief Medical Advisor to the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, Department of Rheumatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, UK
44. John Scott, Consultant in Pulmonary Medicine and Medical Director Lung Transplant Program Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation
45. Nan Shen, Professor of Medicine, Director, Shanghai Institute of Rheumatology , Renji Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, China
46. Yehuda Shoenfeld, Head, Department of Medicine 'B' and Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center (Affiliated to Tel-Aviv University), ISRAEL
47. John Stone, Director, Clinical Rheumatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
48. Isaac Stillman, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
49. Josef Smolen, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Austria
50. 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
51. Gregory Summers, Dr., Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal Derby Hospital, UK
52. Deborah Symmons, Professor of Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology, The University of Manchester. Medical Director and Head of the Arthritis research UK Epidemiology Unit, UK
53. Paul Peter Tak, Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, EULAR & FOCIS Center of Excellence, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
54. Peter Taylor, Professor, Head of Clinical Trials and Campus Dean, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, Imperial College London, UK
55. Kati Thieme, Visiting Professor, Center for Neurosensory Disorders, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
56. Betty Tsao, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
57. George C. Tsokos, Chief, Rheumatology Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
58. Bart van den Bemt, Pharmacist/ Clinical Scientist,  Sint Maartenskliniek, The Netherlands
59. Martinus A.F.J. van de Laar, Professor, Rheumatologist, Medisch Spectrum Twente & University Twente, The Netherlands
60. David M Reid, Professor of Rheumatology, Head of Division of Applied Medicine & Interim Co-Director of the Institute of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, UK
61. Piet Van Riel, Head of the Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands
62. Jane Salmon, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Collette Kean Research Professor, Hospital for Special Surgery, USA
63. Laura van Hulst, Department of Rheumatology, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands
64. Walther J. van Venrooij, Professor of Biochemistry, Dept. Biomolecular Chemistry, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
65. John Varga, Professor, Director, Division of Rheumatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University , USA
66. Carlos Vasconcelos, Head of Clinical Immunology Unit, Centro Hospitalar do Porto – Hospital Santo Antonio, Portugal
67. Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine-Rheumatology , Athens University School of Medicine, Greece
68. Jiří Vencovský, Vice-director, Head of Research and Laboratory Department, Institute of Rheumatology, Czech Republic
69. Bruce Volpe, Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, USA
70. Frank Wollheim, Emeritus Professor, MD PhD FRCP, University of Lund Hospital, Sweden
71. Hasan Yazici, Professor and Chief Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Turkey
72. Alex Zautra, Foundation Professor, Department of Psychology (Clinical), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, USA

* as of November 18th, 2010