Committees
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)
Scientific Committe
D Abraham (UK), Y Asano (Jp), A Balbir-Gurmann (Israel), M Baron (Canada), C Bruni (CH, I), C Campochiaro (I), P Carreira (Spain), I Castellvi (Spain), J Colic (Sr), M Cutolo (Italy), L Dagna (Italy), G De Luca (I), 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), M Hughes (UK), L Hummers (USA), N Hunzelmann (Germany), M Inanc (Tr), JB Jun (South Korea), B Kahaleh (USA), C Kayser (Brazil), Y Kawaguchi (Japan), O Kowal-Bielecka (Poland), D Launay (France), EB Lee (South Korea), A Lescoat (France), Y Levy (Israel), MT Li (China), C Mihai (Switzerland), GL Moroncini (I), L Mouthon (France), V Nagaraja (USA), M Nikpour (Australia), J Pope (Canada), G Riemekasten (Germany), P Sampaio Barros (Brazil), L Sakkas (Gr), P Shenoy (India), K Solanki (New Zealand), V Steen (USA), Y Suliman (Egypt), E Volkmann (USA), M Vonk (Netherlands), J Wang (China), H Yasuoka (Jp), Y Wang (China), X Zeng (China)
