{"id":1651,"date":"2025-07-10T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/?page_id=1651"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:25:18","slug":"committees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Patron WSF<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Prof Dame Carol Black (UK)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Honorary Presidents<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Thomas Medsger (USA), Kazuhiko Takehara (Japan), Alan Tyndall (Switzerland), Frank Wollheim (Sweden)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Senior Advisors<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Phil Clements (USA), Nemanja Damjanov (Serbia), Ariane Herrick (UK), Jim Seibold (USA)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Steering Committee<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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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), Masataka Kuwana (Japan), Robert Lafyatis (USA), Marco Matucci-Cerinic (Italy), Maureen Mayes (USA), Susanna Proudman (Australia), John Varga (USA)<\/p>

  • EULAR Liaison: Ulf Muller-Ladner (Germany)<\/li>
  • ACR Liaison: Zsuszanna McMahan (USA)<\/li>
  • EUSTAR Liaison: Marie-Elise Truchetet (France)<\/li>
  • Meet the Professors: Laszlo Czirjak (Hungary)<\/li>
  • Workshops: Phil Clements (USA)<\/li>
  • Patients representatives: Sue Farrington (UK), Ilaria Galetti (Italy)<\/li>
  • Country members: Petros Sfikakis, Nic Liossis, Theodoros Dimitroulas, Stylianos Panopoulos (Greece)<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Co-Chairs of the Scientific Programme Committee<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Clinical:<\/em>\u00a0Vanessa Smith (Belgium)
    Basic:<\/em>\u00a0Benjamin Korman (USA)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Co-Chairs of the Abstract Committee<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Clinical:<\/em>\u00a0Rong Mu (China), Silvia Bellando-Randone (Italy), John Pauling (UK), Zsuzsanna McMahan (USA)
    Basic:<\/em>\u00a0Michal Tomcik (Czech Rep.), Yukie Yamaguchi (Japan)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Local Organising Committee<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Petros P. Sfikakis,\u00a0Chairperson
    <\/em>Stamatis Nick Liossis, Theodoros Dimitroulas, Stylianos Panopoulos, Maria Tektonidou, George Fragoulis, Vasiliki Bournia, Nikos Vlachogiannis,
    A Tzouvelekis\u00a0(pulmonologist)<\/em>, Sophie Mavrogeni\u00a0(cardiologist)<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Scientific Committe<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    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),\u00a0 H Yasuoka (Jp), Y Wang (China), X Zeng (China)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1651\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.aimgroupinternational.com\/2026\/sclerosiscongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}