Rheumatology Update Europe 2025
Prague & Virtual, 4 – 5 April, 2025
Evaluation
Evaluation
Pathogenesis and Immunology
Institution:
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel
German Aeronautics and Space Research Centre, European Space Agency
2024 – present Scientist and Doctor for Clinical Aerospace Medicine
Christian Albrechts University Kiel
Department for Rheumatology and Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine, Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Kiel, Germany
2018 – present W3-Professor for Internal Medicine and Rheumatology and Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Research, CAU of Kiel
2015 – 2018 Assistant professor at the Department for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2015 Habilitation for Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Medical Faculty of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2005 – 2015 Research assistantat Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin and Specialisation in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology
2014 Board Certification in Rheumatology
2012 Board Certification in Internal medicine
2007 Visting Scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institut for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
2002-2005 Doctoral Thesis at Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin
2004 Approbation in Medicine
1997-2004 Medical School in Bonn, Rennes (France), Berlin, Montpellier (France) and Basel (Switzerland)
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General
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Data collection on our website
Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?
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How do we collect your data?
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What do we use your data for?
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You can object to this analysis. We will inform you below about how to exercise your options in this regard.
General information and mandatory information
Data protection
The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.
Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.
Notice concerning the party responsible for this website
The responsible body for data processing on this website is the website operator, see legal notice
The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).
Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities
If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Right to data portability
You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.
SSL or TLS encryption
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Encrypted payments on this website
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Information, blocking, deletion
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Data protection officer
Statutory data protection officer
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Nikolausstraße 11
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Email: privacy@medupdate-europe.com
Data collection on our website
Cookies
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Server log files
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Browser type and browser version
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Referrer URL
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IP address
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The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.
Contact form
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Registration on this website
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We will continue to store the data collected during registration for as long as you remain registered on our website. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.
Processing of data (customer and contract data)
We collect, process, and use personal data only insofar as it is necessary to establish, or modify legal relationships with us (master data). This is done based on Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract. We collect, process and use your personal data when accessing our website (usage data) only to the extent required to enable you to access our service or to bill you for the same.
Collected customer data shall be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.
Data transmitted when entering into a contract with online shops, retailers, and mail order
We transmit personally identifiable data to third parties only to the extent required to fulfill the terms of your contract, for example, to companies entrusted to deliver goods to your location or banks entrusted to process your payments. Your data will not be transmitted for any other purpose unless you have given your express permission to do so. Your data will not be disclosed to third parties for advertising purposes without your express consent.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.
Data transferred when signing up for services and digital content
We transmit personally identifiable data to third parties only to the extent required to fulfill the terms of your contract with us, for example, to banks entrusted to process your payments.
Your data will not be transmitted for any other purpose unless you have given your express permission to do so. Your data will not be disclosed to third parties for advertising purposes without your express consent.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.
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The storage of Matomo cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.
The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website will not be disclosed to third parties. You can prevent these cookies being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website.
If you do not agree with the storage and use of your data, you can disable this feature here. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser to prevent Matomo from storing your usage data. If you delete your cookies, this will mean that the opt-out cookie will also be deleted. You will then need to reactivate it when you return to our site if you wish your activity not to be tracked.
WordPress Stats
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WordPress Stats cookies remain on your device until you delete them.
The storage of “WordPress Stats” cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
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Each Google AdWords advertiser has a different cookie. Thus, cookies cannot be tracked using the website of an AdWords advertiser. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for the AdWords advertisers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. However, advertisers do not obtain any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can opt-out of this by easily disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie by changing your browser settings. In doing so, you will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.
Conversion cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.
For more information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking, see the Google Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.
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Google reCAPTCHA
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reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.
The reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place.
Data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam.
For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.
Newsletter
Sendinblue
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Sendinblue is a service which organizes and analyzes the distribution of newsletters. The data you provide to subscribe to our newsletter will be stored on Sendinblue servers in Germany.
If you do not want your usage of the newsletter to be analyzed by Sendinblue, you will have to unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide a link in every newsletter we send. You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter directly on the website.
Data analysis by Sendinblue
We use Sendinblue to analyze our newsletter campaigns. This allows us to determine if a newsletter message has been opened and which links you click on. We can thus find out how often various links are clicked.
In addition, we can see if certain actions take place after clicking on said links (conversion rate). We can thus determine whether the clicking of a link in a newsletter has led to a purchase, for example.
Sendinblue also allows us to classify newsletter recipients into different categories (clustering). For example, newsletter recipients can be subdivided according to gender, personal preference (e.g. vegetarian or non-vegetarian), or customer relationship (e.g. existing or potential customer). This allows us to adapt the newsletters to the respective target groups.
For detailed information on the functions of Sendinblue, see the following link: https://www.sendinblue.com/features/.
Legal basis
Data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.
Storage duration
The data provided when registering for the newsletter will be used to distribute the newsletter until you cancel your subscription when said data will be deleted from our servers and those of Sendinblue. Data we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area) remains unaffected.
For more information, see the privacy policy of Sendinblue at https://xxxxxxx
Completion of an outsourced data processing contract
We have entered into a data processing agreement with Sendinblue, in which we require Sendinblue to protect the data of our customers and not to disclose said data to third parties. It can be downloaded here: https://vvvvvv.
Plugins and tools
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Vimeo
Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our website or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.
If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.
For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.
Google Web Fonts (local hosting)
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. The Google fonts are installed locally. There is no connection to Google servers.
Google Maps
This site uses the Google Maps map service via an API. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To use Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of making our website appealing and to facilitate the location of places specified by us on the website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of Google at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
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Vasculitides
Dr. Dejaco is the head of the Department of Rheumatology of the South Tyrol Health Trust and an Associate Professor at the Medical University of Graz. He is the current abstract chair of the EULAR conference and his main fields of interest are imaging and vasculitis.
Systemic Sclerosis
Institution:
University Hospital for Rheumatology and Immunology, Bern, Switzerland
Professor of Rheumatology, University Bern
Director / Head, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Head of Experimental Rheumatology / Group Leader, Lung Precision Medicine Program, Department of Biomedical Research, University Bern, Switzerland
2016-2020 Senior Consultant Rheumatologist, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Switzerland
2012-2015 Consultant Rheumatologist, Department of Rheumatology, USZ, CH
2010-2012 Resident, Department of Rheumatology, USZ, CH
2004-2007 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Haematology & Oncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
2003-2004 Intern, Department of Internal Medicine, Salem Medical Centre and Laboratory of Alcohol Research, Liver Disease and Nutrition, Heidelberg, Germany
Since 2021 Full Professor for Rheumatology, Medical Faculty, University Bern, Switzerland
2015 Venia legendi (Habilitation) for Rheumatology, Medical Faculty, University Zurich, Switzerland
2012 Board examination for Rheumatology, SIWF / FHM, Switzerland
2005 Medical doctoral degree (dissertation), Medical Faculty, University Heidelberg, Germany
2003 State medical examination for human medicine (graduation), Medical Faculty, University Heidelberg, Germany
1996-2003 Medical School, University Heidelberg, Germany
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Axial Spondyloarthritis
Institution:
Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet at Marien Hospital, University Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum,
Herne, Germany
Dr Uta Kiltz gained her MD in 1997 from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Dr Kiltz is working as a rheumatologist at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Her main scientific interest focusses on the field of spondyloarthritis, focusing especially on patient-reported outcomes and quality standards. She has coordinated the developments and the update of the national guideline for axial spondyloarthritis in Germany for more than 10 years. Since 2022, she is chair of the EULAR quality of care committee.
SLE & APS
Institution:
TU Dresden, Germany
Small Vessel Vasculitis
Institution:
Cochin Hospital, Paris
Benjamin Terrier is Professor of Internal Medicine working in Cochin Hospital, Paris, France. He is involved in clinical and translational research in the filed of systemic vasculitis, within the French Vasculitis Study Group.
Psoriatic Arthritis
Institution:
University of Oxford
Laura Coates is an Associate Professor and NIHR Clinician Scientist whose research focuses on optimal therapeutic strategies in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Her PhD focused on the development of the minimal disease activity criteria for PsA and establishment of the TICOPA trial, the first study to show the benefit of treating to target in PsA. Her research is clinical and focuses on psoriatic arthritis and the spondyloarthritides including early diagnosis of PsA, development of PsA specific and validated outcome measures, optimal treatment pathways and strategies in PsA. She is on the steering committee of the British PsA Consortium (BritPACT) and the Group for Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA).
Osteoporosis
Institution:
University of Verona
Giovanni Adami is a rheumatologist at the Rheumatology Unit of the University of Verona (Italy). Dr. Adami holds a Ph.D. position in Clinical and Experimental Biomedical Sciences at the School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Verona (Italy) and has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, United States. Dr. Adami is the author of more than 90 scientific papers (Scopus H-index = 20, Google-scholar H-index = 24) published in peer-reviewed international journals and indexed in English and is first author in most of these scientific papers and second author in numerous others. Dr. Adami is also young author of the module “Osteoporosis: Pathogenesis and Clinical features” of “The EULAR Textbook on Rheumatic Diseases (2020)” and “EULAR on-line course on Rheumatic Diseases (2020)
Sjögren's Syndrome
Institution:
Bicêtre Hospital, Paris-Saclay
Xavier Mariette, MD, PhD, has served as the Head of the Rheumatology Department of Bicêtre Hospital, Paris-Saclay University since 1999, a role he took following 10 years of practice of clinical immunology in Paris-Diderot University.
Pr Mariette has initiated a number of clinical research studies on long-term tolerance of biotherapies in rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune diseases: RATIO (Research Axed on Tolerance of Biotherapy) for anti-TNF, AIR (Autoimmunity and Rituximab) and ORA (Orencia and Rheumatoid arthritis).
He initiated clinical trials in Sjögren’s syndrome with infliximab, hydroxychloroquine, rituximab and belimumab. He coordinated different consortia for setting-up activity scores for evaluation of the disease in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome: ESSDAI, ESSPRI and STAR.
Recently, he worked on rheumatic adverse effects observed with immune checkpoint therapy of cancer and he initiated clinical trials on immune modulators for the treatment of severe COVID-19, for example the first trial having demonstrated the efficacy of tocilizumab.
Pr Mariette is involved in basic research, leading a group working on pathogeny of Sjögren’s syndrome. He made the first emphasis on the role of the cytokine BAFF in pathogeny of this disease, which led to the development of promising therapeutic approaches for inhibiting it.
In basic research, his group also works on relationships between innate immunity and B-cell activation in autoimmunity, macrophages in rheumatoid arthritis and the relationships between autoimmunity and lymphoma.
Pr Mariette has been the President of the Scientific Committee of the EULAR meeting in Berlin in 2012 and has been from 2016 to 2020 the Chair of the EULAR standing committee on investigative rheumatology.
Pr Mariette is co-author of more than 650 publications referenced in PubMed with an H-index of 98 (Web of Science).
Esinophilic Diseases
Institution:
Hospital of Santa Maria, Center University Hospital North Lisbon
Cristina Ponte, MD, PhD, is a Rheumatologist at Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, where she leads the Vasculitis Clinic. She is an Assistant Professor of Rheumatology at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa and a Clinical Researcher at Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa. She has worked as a Vasculitis Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK (2013-2015), and has been involved in several vasculitis research projects, particularly related to the development of classification and diagnostic criteria in primary vasculitis and the use of ultrasound in the assessment of large vessel vasculitis.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Institution:
Leiden University Medical Center
Diane van der Woude M.D. Ph.D. is Associate Professor in Translational Rheumatology at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Diane van der Woude studied medicine at the university of Heidelberg in Germany and graduated with highest honors (summa cum laude) in 2004. She then commenced her training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands and combined this with her Ph.D.-research. In 2012 she defended her Ph.D.-thesis: “Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) in rheumatoid arthritis – linking genetic predisposition to clinical outcome” and obtained her Ph.D. with honors (cum laude). She completed her training in Rheumatology in 2014. She is now an Associate Professor in Translational Rheumatology at the LUMC. Her research is dedicated to the processes underlying the development of rheumatoid arthritis and ANCA-associated vasculitis. It mainly focuses on the risk factors and autoantibodies associated with these diseases. She has received various grants to support her research activities, including a Veni-grant and a Vidi-grant. Dr. van der Woude is actively involved in several international research consortia, and she supervises research activities of both graduate (Ph.D.) and undergraduate (medical) students. Furthermore, she participates in various teaching activities for medical students, graduate students and rheumatology nurses. Besides her work as a clinician, researcher and university teacher, she is editor-in-chief of the Dutch rheumatology journal, and rheumatology editor for the Dutch Journal of Medicine.
Hot Topic: Rheumatology meets Cardiology
Institution:
Paris Cité University, Paris
Yannick Allanore is Professor of Rheumatology at the Paris Cité University in Paris since 2008. Professor Allanore is the Head of a research group working on the cardio-pulmonary aspects of systemic sclerosis and other chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases through clinical research programs and basic research ones, including genetic and cellular biology approaches, and an animal model platform covering various models of inflammatory driven fibrosis (INSERM U1016, Cochin Institut). He has published over 500 papers in peer-review journals, H-Index 75. Professor Allanore is a member of several professional bodies, including the French Rheumatology Society and the American College of Rheumatology. He has been the elected chairman (2013-2019) of the The EUROPEAN Scleroderma Trials and Research group (EUSTAR). He is member of the board of direction of the World Scleroderma FOUNDATION. He is the head of the rheumatology department at Cochin Hospital. He became in 2022 vice-director of Institut Cochin (INSERM U1016 UMR 8104).
Myositis
Institution:
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
Antonella Notarnicola MD, PhD, Consultant Rheumatologist, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Notarnicola is responsible for the rheumatological day care and follows more than 250 patients with rheumatic diseases at the outpatient rheumatology clinic. She is one of the rheumatologists with expertise in diagnosing and following patients with myositis, therefore being consulted by colleagues at Karolinska and other hospitals in Stockholm and Sweden and one of the doctors performing muscle biopsies required for myositis diagnosis and follow-up. She is also the reference rheumatologist joining the multidisciplinary conferences for discussion of patients with interstitial lung disease at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm and part of a Swedish national group with the task to develop new guidelines for diagnosis and management of patients with Interstitial lung disease. Her main research area is on idiopathic inflammatory myopathies or shortly myositis and associated interstitial lung disease with particular interest about the role of autoantibodies in the pathogenesis of the disease and as diagnostic/prognostic markers.
Hot Topic: Febrile Syndrome
Institution:
Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa
Gülen Hatemi is a Professor of Medicine in Istanbul University – Cerrahpasa, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology. She is a member of the Behçet's Syndrome Research Center in Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, a multidisciplinary center specialized in research and care of patients with Behçet's syndrome. Her main research area is Behçet's syndrome and she has published several articles including drug trials and clinical research on this disorder. She has conducted a series of studies focused on understanding the life impact of Behçet’s syndrome. She is also interested in outcome measures development. She is currently the convenor of the Disease Assessment Study Group of the International Society for Behçet’s Disease and is co-chairing the OMERACT Behçet’s Syndrome working group.
Myositis
Institution:
Charles University, Prague
Jiří Vencovský is a professor of internal medicine and works at the Institute of Rheumatology and the Department of Rheumatology at the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague.
He is the head of the scientific research department at the Institute. He is a former long-time chairman of the Czech Society of Rheumatology and the editor-in-chief of the journal Czech Rheumatology. For six years he served as treasurer of the Foundation for Research in Rheumatology (FOREUM) and is currently a member of the FOREUM Board of Trustees.
His research interests include mainly idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, as well as autoantibodies in rheumatic diseases and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. He is one of the founding members of the European Registry for Inflammatory Myopathies and has hosted a number of meetings on this topic, most recently the 4th Global Conference of Myositis (GCOM) in 2022.
Retroperitoneal Fibrosis & IgG4-related Diseases
Institution:
University of Firenze, Florence
Augusto Vaglio is a consultant nephrologist at the Meyer Children's Hospital in Firenze and an Associate Professor of Nephrology at the University of Firenze, Italy. He is also Director of the Postgraduate Nephrology Fellowship program of the University of Firenze. His main areas of interest are systemic vasculitis, IgG4 related disease, lupus nephritis and systemic histiocytosis He has published >300 papers in international, peer reviewed journals and has an h-index of 61 (according to Scopus)
Pregnancy - New Guidelines
Institution:
Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen
Prof. Dr. med. Frauke Förger: Department of Rheumatology Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen • Head section pregnancy and rheumatic disease, Senior Consultant, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, University Hospital (Inselspital) and University Bern • Professor of Rheumatology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern Professional Qualifications: Titles of the German Board and the Swiss Medical Association (FMH) certification - Internal Medicine - Rheumatology - Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Research Interests: - Immunological adaptations in pregnancy that modulate rheumatic diseases - Safety of antirheumatic drugs in pregnancy and lactation
Hot Topic: Cellular Therapies
Institution:
University Hospital Erlangen
Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer is Professor for Clinical Systems Immunology at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and University Hospital Erlangen, Germany. He studied medicine and business administration. Ricardo per-formed his clinical training in medicine, rheumatology and immunology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Zurich, at Duke University School of Medicine and at Harvard Medical School. His immunological research focuses on neutrophils, inflammatory arthritis and bioinformatics. After post-doctoral training with the Boston-based ImmGen Consortium, he then established a DFG-funded research group at Heidelberg University as clinician scientist, focusing on neutrophil heterogeneity in rheumatic disease. In October 2023, Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer joined FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Department of Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology. In his clinical role, he heads the clinical trial unit and takes care of patients with rheumatic and immune-mediated diseases, in particular in the context of emerging therapies such as CAR-T cells. His research group investigates the mechanisms driving immune cell heterogeneity in tissues and inflammatory conditions and develops new bioinformatics analysis tools for high dimensional data.
Debate: Rheumatology meets Nephrology
Institution:
Charles University, Prague
Dr. Jakub Závada is a Consultant in Rheumatology and Nephrology and a Professor of Internal Medicine at the Institute of Rheumatology and the Department of Rheumatology, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague. He holds degrees in Medicine and a Ph.D. from the 1st School of Medicine, Charles University, and is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Rheumatology. He has completed externships at the Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, and at the CRISMA Clinical Research Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical School. His scientific focus includes SLE, Gout, renal involvement in rheumatic disease, and epidemiology of rheumatic diseases. He participates in various research groups, including the EULAR Sub-Committee for epidemiology and public health research, and the EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network. He also serves on the steering committee for the Czech biologics registry ATTRA. Dr. Závada has co-authored over 60 publications, contributing to the fields of rheumatology and nephrology.
Debate: Rheumatology meets Nephrology
Institution:
Medical University Innsbruck
Andreas Kronbichler is Consultant in Renal Medicine and Assistant Professor at Medical University Innsbruck, Austria, where he also completed his medical training. Previously, he was a Clinical Senior Research Associate/University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK. Professor Kronbichler was a Principal Site Investigator for the ADVOCATE and GOOD-IDeS01 and 02 trials. He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications, with one of his main research focuses being ANCA-associated vasculitis and nephrotic syndrome. Recently, he has authored a viewpoint on the effect of AI on the medical profession. In addition to this, he is a reviewer for several journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Professor Kronbichler is Chair Elect of the ERA Immunonephrology Working Group and a Board Member of the ERA European Communication Committee. In 2023, he was awarded the Dr Johannes und Hertha Tuba Preis and the Nils-Alwall-Preis by the German Society of Nephrology. He has recently been awarded the Eberhard Ritz Award of the European Renal Association (2024).
Gout & Crystal Arthropathies
Institution:
Norway
Till Uhlig studied medicine in Düsseldorf and Lübeck, Germany and in Bergen, Norway, and holds a PhD degree from the University of Oslo. He has been a specialist in rheumatology since 1996 and is presently consultant and senior researcher at the Division of Rheumatology at Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo, Norway. Further he holds a professorship in Rheumatology at the University of Oslo. After completing rheumatology specialist training in Bodø and at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, he pursued research in clinical rheumatology at the department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital as a PhD student and later postdoc. His thesis addressed epidemiological aspects in rheumatoid arthritis. In 2001 Till Uhlig began his tenure at the National Advisory Unit on Rehabilitation in Rheumatology at the same department. His research interests focused on outcomes assessment, especially regarding clinical aspects and application in clinical observational studies. Specific areas of interest have been scoring methods in RA, development and systematic evaluation of clinical treatments for rheumatic diseases, especially rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, as well as rehabilitation aspects. With his coworkers he further developed the Oslo Rheumatoid Arthritis Register database. This regional registry has been instrumental in providing high-quality data on health-related quality of life in RA. During the last 10 years gout has been the major research interest with research on follow-up of a gout cohort in Norway (NOR-Gout), providing clinical outcomes and patient related outcomes. Till Uhlig has authored over 250 papers, reviews and book chapters in the international literature, mainly on aspects of inflammatory joint diseases, including gout, with focus on epidemiology and outcome research. He is a member in the EULAR Quality of Care Committee.
Rheumatology meets Pneumology
Independent Medical Education Symposium
Institution:
Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway and University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Rheumatology meets Pneumology
Independent Medical Education Symposium
Institution:
rasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
