Fernando Pérez-Ruiz, MD, PhD
Senior Consultant and Chief of the Rheumatology Division in Cruces University Hospital; Head of the Investigation Group for Arthritis at Biocruces Health Research Institute; Associated Professor of the Department of Medicine in School of Medicine and Nursery at the Basque Country University, Biskay, Spain
Email: fperezruiz@telefonica.net
Jürgen Braun, MD
Interests: Rheumatoid arthritis, Gout, Osteoporosis
Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Herne, Germany
Ali Ghasem Zadeh,
Interests: Osteoporosis, Bone Mineral Density, Quantitative Bone Imaging
Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Rebecca Grainger, PhD
Interests: Gout, Rheumatoid arthritis, Health services, Digital health
Department of Medicine, University of Otago, and Hutt Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand
Vivien Hsu, MD
Interests: Scleroderma spectrum disorders
Scleroderma Program, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Elena Jones, PhD
Interests: Knee joint, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatology, Orthopedic surgery, Arthroplasty
Associate Professor, Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Reuven Mader, MD
Interests: Hypertrophic bone disease, Spondyloarthritis, Inflammatory arthritis
Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
Peter Mandl, MD, PhD
Interests: Musculoskeletal imaging, Musculoskeletal ultrasound, Fibroblast, Synovial biopsy, Rheumatoid arthritis
Division of Rheumatology, 3rd Dept.of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Vienna, Austria
Javier Narváez, MD, PhD
Interests: Systemic autoinmune diseases, Vasculitis, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Systemic sclerosis
Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge; Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
Joan M. Nolla, MD, PhD
Interests: Treatment of immune-mediated rheumatic diseases, Comorbidities in rheumatoid arthritis, Sarcopenia, Osteoporosis Comorbidities in rheumatoid arthritis
Head of Rheumatology Department, Bellvitge University Hospital. Barcelona; Professor of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Ahmad Oryan, PhD
Interests: Fracture healing, Biomechanical performance, Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, Histopathology, Ultrastructure, Tendon healing
Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Rubén Queiro, MD, PhD
Interests: Spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, outcome measures
Rheumatology Division & Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA). Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias & Oviedo University School of Medicine, Oviedo, Spain
Naomi Schlesinger, MD
Interests: Gout, Gouty inflammation
Division of Rheumatology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Blanka Stiburkova, Ph.D.
Interests: Hyperuricemia, hypouricemia, gout, inherited metabolic disorder, purine metabolism.
Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech republic & Department of Pediatrics and Inherited metabolic Disorders, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
Jagadeesh Kumar Venkatesan, PhD
Interests: Gene therapy, Cartilage repair, Meniscus
Center of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany
Amin Bigham-Sadegh, DVM
Interests: Bone, tendon and cartilage healing biology, Tissue engineering research, Animal modeling for healing research
Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Marek Brzosko, PhD
Interests: Epidemiology of rheumatic diseases, Diagnostics of cardiovascular complications in systemic connective tissue diseases and vasculitis
Department of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
Ivan Castellví Barranco, MD, PhD
Interests: Systemic Sclerosis, Sclerodermia, Myositis, Interstitial lung disease, Pulmonary hypertension
Department of Rheumatology and Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Universitari de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Paiva Eduardo, PhD
Interests: Fibromyalgia, Relapsing Polychondritis, CACH Syndrome
Rheumatology, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil; Brazilian Society of Rheumatology, Brazil.
Reinhard Graf, MD, Univ.Prof, Prof.h.c.
Interests: Baby hip joints, Sonography
Academic hospital Stolzalpe, Austria
Carlos Antonio Guillen-Astete, MD, PhD
Interests: Spondyloarthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Musculoskeletal ultrasound
Rheumatology Department, University Hospital Ramón y Cajal; Associated Professor at Biomedical Sciences Faculty at Universidad Europea de Madrid; Associated Professor at Medicine Faculty at Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain
Tamás Oláh, PhD
Interests: Knee osteoarthritis, Subchondral bone, Osteochondral unit, Animal models, Micro-CT
Center of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
Nader Rahnama, MSc, Mphil, PhD, Uni Professor
Interests: Sports Injuries & Sport Medicine
Department of Sport Injury & Corrective exercises. Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
Stefano Soldano, PhD
Interests: Inflammation in Rheumatoid arthritis, mechanism of fibrosis in autoimmune diseases, macrophage polarization, fibroblasts-to myofibroblast transition, fibrocyte- myofibroblast transition
Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology, Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, IRCCS Polyclinic San Martino hospital, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy
Xinping Tian, MD, PhD, MS
Interests: Vasculitis and pregnancy in women with rheumatic diseases
Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
