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