Patron WSF

Prof Dame Carol Black (UK)

 

Honorary Presidents

Thomas Medsger (USA), Kazuhiko Takehara (Japan), Alan Tyndall (Switzerland), Frank Wollheim (Sweden)

 

Senior Advisors

Phil Clements (USA), Nemanja Damjanov (Serbia), Armando Gabrielli (Italy), Ariane Herrick (UK), Jim Seibold (USA)

 

Steering Committee

Yannick Allanore (France), Shervin Assassi (USA), Laszlo Czirjak (Hungary), Francesco Del Galdo (UK), Chris Denton (UK), Oliver Distler (Switzerland), Dan Furst (USA), Dinesh Khanna (USA), Thomas Krieg (Germany), Masaka Kuwana (Japan), Marco Matucci-Cerinic (Italy), Maureen Mayes (USA), Ulf Mueller-Ladner (Germany), Susanna Proudman (Australia), John Varga (USA)
Patient representative: S Farrington (UK) & Ilaria Galetti, EULAR

 

Co-chairs of the Programme Committee

Clinical: Lorinda Chung (USA)
Basic: Jorg Distler (Germany)

 

Co-chairs of the Abstract Committee

Clinical: Andrea Low (Singapore), Susanna Proudman (Australia)
Basic: Benjamin Korman (USA), Marie Elise Truchetet (France)

 

Scientific Committee

D Abraham (UK), Y Asano (Japan), A Balbir-Gurmann (Israel), M Baron (Canada), S Bellando Randone (Italy), C Bruni (Switzerland & Italy), C Campochiaro (Italy), P Carreira (Spain), I Castellvi (Spain), M Cutolo (Italy), L Dagna (Italy), JK De Vries-Bouwstra (Netherlands), C Foocharoen (Thailand), T Frech (USA), D Giuggioli, (Italy), E Hachulla (France), M Hinchcliff (USA), M Hughes (UK), A Hoffmann-Vold (Norway), L Hummers (USA), N Hunzelmann (Germany), JB Jun (South Korea), B Kahaleh (USA), C Kayser (Brazil), Y Kawaguchi (Japan), O Kowal-Bielecka (Poland), U Kumar (India), R Lafyatis (USA), D Launay (France), A Lescoat (France), EB Lee (South Korea), Y Levy (Israel), MT Li (China), Z McMahan (USA), C Mihai (Romania), G Moroncini (Italy), L Mouthon (France), V Nagaraja (USA), M Nikpour (Australia), J Pauling (UK), J Pope (Canada), G Riemekasten (Germany), P Sampaio Barros (Brazil), L Sakkas (Greece), P Sfikakis (Greece), P Shenoy (India), V Smith (Belgium), K Solanki (New Zealand), V Steen (USA), Y Suliman (Egypt), E Volkmann (USA), M Vonk (Netherlands), J Wang (China), Y Wang (China), H Yasuoka (Japan), X Zeng (China)

 

Local Organising Committee

Coordinator: R Bečvář
P Jansa, MD PhD, head PH unit, Clinic of Cardiology and Angiology, General Teaching Hospital, Prague
O Kodet, MD, PhD, Clinic of Dermatovenerology, General Teaching Hospital, Prague
M Koziar-Vašáková, MD PhD head Clinic of Pulmonology, Thomayer Teaching Hospital, Prague
M Tomčík, MD PhD, Institute of Rheumatology, Prague
S Oreská, MD Institute of Rheumatology, Prague
H Šmucrová, Institute of Rheumatology, Prague

 

Fesca Board

S Farrington, President
I Galetti, Vice-President
L Schraven, Secretary
A Rønnow, Communications Manager