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), Ariane Herrick (UK), Jim Seibold (USA)

Steering Committee

Yannick Allanore (France), Shervin Assassi (USA), Francesco Del Galdo (UK), Chris Denton (UK), Oliver Distler (Switzerland), Jorg Distler (Germany), Dan Furst (USA), Dinesh Khanna (USA), Thomas Krieg (Germany), Masaka Kuwana (Japan), Robert Lafyatis (USA), Marco Matucci-Cerinic (Italy), Maureen Mayes (USA), Susanna Proudman (Australia), John Varga (USA)

• EULAR Liaison: Ulf Muller-Ladner (Germany)
• ACR Liaison: Zsuszanna MacMahan (USA)
• Meet the Professors: Laszlo Czirjak (Hungary)
• Workshops: Phil Clements (USA)
• Patients representatives: Sue Farrington (UK), Ilaria Galetti (Italy)
• Country members: Petros Sfikakis, Nic Liossis, Theodoros Dimitroulas, Stylianos Panopoulos (Greece)

Co-Chairs of the Scientific Programme Committee

Clinical: Vanessa Smith (Belgium)

Basic: Benjamin Korman (USA)

Co-Chairs of the Abstract Committee

Clinical: Rong Mu (China), Silvia Bellando-Randone (Italy), John Pauling (UK), Zsuzsanna McMahan (USA)

Basic: Michal Tomcik (Czech Rep.), Yukie Yamaguchi (Japan)

Local Organising Committee

Petros P. Sfikakis, Chairperson

Nic Liossis, Theodoros Dimitroulas, Stylianos Panopoulos, Maria Tektonidou, George Fragoulis, Vasiliki Bournia, Nikos Vlachogiannis, A Tzouvelekis (pulmonologist), Sophie Mavrogeni (cardiologist)