Honorary Presidents
C Black, F Wollheim, T Medsger

Steering Committee
DE Furst, L Guillevin, T Krieg, M Kuwana, M Matucci-Cerinic, U Mueller-Ladner, J Seibold,
K Takehara, A Tyndall, and the following Chairpersons:
   1. Chairpersons of the Abstract Committee: O Distler, P Sampaio Barros
   2. Chairpersons of the Clinical Committee: Y Allanore, D Khanna
   3. Chairpersons of the Basic Science Committee: J Distler, R. Lafyatis, J Varga
   4. Chairperson of the Workshops: P Clements
   5. Liaison officer with the Scleroderma Workshop: C Denton, R Lafyatis
   6. Chairpersons of the Mentoring Program: L Czirjak, M Mayes

Scientific Committee
D Abraham, L Ananieva, Y Asano, S Assassi, A Balbir-Gurmann, M Baron, P Carreira,
L Catoggio, C Chizzolini, M Cutolo, N Damjanov, F Del Galdo, J Distler, C Feghali-Botswick,
A Gabrielli, S Gay, E Hachulla, A Herrick, R Hesselstrand, H Ihn, M Inanc, S Johnson, B Kahaleh,
Y Kawaguchi, R Knobler, O Kowal-Bielecka, T Krieg, MT Li, P Merkel, J Pope, M Proudmann,
G Riemekasten, S Sato, R Silver, R Simms, V Steen, F van den Hoogen, J van Laar, M Vonk,
U Walker, J Wang, A Wells, F Wigley, Y Yamada

Local Organising Committee
Marie-Elise Truchetet
Joel Constans
Alain Taieb
Julien Seneschal
Eric Hachulla
Carine Boulon
Géraldine Wojtasik
Sandrine Morell-Dubois

FESCA Board
Annelise Roennow – President
Beata Garay-Toth – Vice-President
Alexandra Portales – Secretary
Despo Charalambous Demetriou – Treasurer
Counsellors:
Ann Tyrrell Kennedy
Kim Fligelstone
Joep Velling
Linda Schraven
Nadine Paciotti

FESCA Local Organizing Committee
Dominique Godard – President of the French Scleroderma Association
Yanne Courcoux