Advisory Board
Steven B Abramson
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Associate Dean for Clinical Research
Department of Rheumatology/Medicine
Hospital for Joint Diseases
New York University
USA
Gunnar BJ Andersson
Professor and Chairman
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago
USA
Francis Berenbaum
Professor of Medicine
Head of the Department of Rheumatology
Faculty of Medicine Pierre and Marie Curie
AP-HP Saint-Antoine Hospital
Paris
France
Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester
Professor of Medicine
Director of the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Charité University Medicine Berlin
Humboldt University and Free University of Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Leslie J Crofford
Gloria W Singletary Professor of Internal Medicine
Chief of the Division of Rheumatology
Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women's Health
University of Kentucky
Lexington
USA
Jean-Michel Dayer
Honorary Professor of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Centre Médical Universitaire (CMU)
Geneva
Switzerland
Betty Diamond
Professor of Medicine
Chief of the Autoimmune Disease Center
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research – North Shore LIJ Health System
Manhasset
USA
C Garrison Fathman
Professor of Medicine
Chair of the Center for Clinical Immunology at Stanford
Division of Immunology and Rheumatology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford
USA
Gary S Firestein
Professor of Medicine
Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla
USA
Sherine E Gabriel
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Chair of the Department of Health Sciences Research
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester
USA
Steffen Gay
Professor of Experimental Rheumatology
Director World Health Organization Collaborating Center
for Molecular Biology and Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Rheumatic Diseases
Department of Rheumatology
University Hospital of Zurich
Zurich
Switzerland
Bevra H Hahn
Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles
USA
Robert D Inman
Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Toronto Western Hospital
Toronto
Canada
David A Isenberg
Professor and Academic Director Centre for Rheumatology
Department of Medicine
University College London Hospital
University College London
London
UK
Edward C Keystone
Professor of Medicine
Director of the Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disease
Mount Sinai Hospital
University of Toronto
Toronto
Canada
Ho-Youn Kim
Professor of Rheumatology and Immunology
Director of the Rheumatism Research Center
Kang-Nam St. Mary's Hospital
Catholic University of Korea
Seoul
Republic of Korea
Lars Klareskog
Professor of Rheumatology
Head of the Rheumatology Unit
Department of Medicine
Karolinska Institute/Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm
Sweden
Tore K Kvien
Professor of Rheumatology
Head of the Department of Rheumatology
Diakonhjemmet Hospital
Oslo
Norway
Nancy E Lane
Director and Endowed Professor
Aging Center, Medicine and Rheumatology
University of California at Davis Medical Center
Sacramento
USA
Chak-Sing Lau
Chair in Rheumatology
Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases Research Unit
University Division of Medicine & Therapeutics
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School
Dundee
UK
Matthew H Liang
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
USA
Professor Sir Ravinder N Maini
Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology
The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division
Imperial College London
London
UK
Elizabeth D Mellins
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford
USA
Kusuki Nishioka
Professor of Medicine
Institute of Medical Science
Arthritis Research Centre
St Marianna University School of Medicine
Kanagawa
Japan
Yehuda Shoenfeld
Professor of Medicine
Head Department of Medicine 'B' and Center for Autoimmune Diseases
Sheba Medical Center (Affiliated with Tel Aviv University)
Israel Incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune
Diseases
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv
Israel
Alan J Silman
Professor of Rheumatic Disease Epidemiology
Medical Director of the Arthritis Research Campaign
University of Manchester
Manchester
UK
Josef S Smolen
Professor of Medicine
Chairman of the Division of Rheumatology
Internal Medicine III
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna
Austria
Désirée van der Heijde
Professor of Rheumatology
Department of Rheumatology
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden
The Netherlands
Michael E Weinblatt
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston
USA
Cornelia M Weyand
David Lowance Professor of Medicine
Director of the Lowance Center for Human Immunology
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta
USA
Kazuhiko Yamamoto
Professor of Medicine
Chairman of the Department of Allergy and Rheumatology
Graduate School of Medicine
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo
Japan
