Organising Committees

EULAR Executive Committee

• President
  Prof. Maxime Dougados, France
• President-elect
  Prof. Maurizio Cutolo, Italy
• Past President
  Prof. Paul Emery, United Kingdom
• Vice-President representing national PARE organisations
  Mr. Neil Betteridge, United Kingdom
• Vice-President representing the Health Professionals
  in Rheumatology
  Prof. Kare-Birger Hagen, Norway
• Treasurer
  Prof. Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester, Germany
• General Secretary
  Prof. Nemanja Damjanov, Serbia
• Editor in Chief of the "Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  The EULAR Journal"
  Prof. Tore K. Kvien, Norway
• Education Officer
  Prof. Hans Bijlsma, Netherlands
• Liaison to the EMEUNET
  Dr. Laure Gossec, France
• * Liaison to the American College of Rheumatology ACR
  Prof. Iain McInnes, United Kingdom
• * Liaison International Organisations
  Prof. Josef S. Smolen, Austria
• * President UEMS Section of Rheumatology
  Dr. Deborah Bax, United Kingdom
• Executive Director
  Mr. Heinz Marchesi, Switzerland

* These functions are not included in the Congress Programme Committee

EULAR Standing
Committee Chairpersons

(Ex-officio members of the EULAR Executive Committee)

• Investigative Rheumatology
  Prof. Paul-Peter Tak, Netherlands

• Clinical Affairs
  Dr. Daniel Aletaha, Austria

• Education and Training
  Prof. Dimitrios Boumpas, Greece

• Epidemiology and Health Services Research
  Dr. Loreto Carmona, Spain

• Musculoskeletal Imaging
  Prof. Mikkel Ostergaard, Denmark

• Paediatric Rheumatology
  Prof. Johannes Roth, Germany

• PARE
  Ms. Maria Batziou, Greece

• Health Professionals in Rheumatology
  Dr. Thea Vliet-Vlieland, Netherlands

Congress Programme Committee

Scientific, Health Professionals, PARE, Primary Care

• The EULAR Executive Committee Members (excluding functions marked with *)

• The EULAR Standing Committee Chairpersons

• Prof. Xavier Mariette, France
  Chairperson of the Scientific Programme Committee

• Prof. Chris Buckley, United Kingdom
  Chairperson of the Abstract Selection Committee

• Dr. Stefan Bergman, Sweden

• Prof. Stanley Cohen, United States

• Ms. Patricia Cornell, United Kingdom

• Prof. Maurizio Cutolo, Italy

• Prof. Maria-Antonietta d'Agostino, France

• Dr. Jurgen Damen, Netherlands

• Dr. Oliver Distler, Switzerland

• Prof. Elaine Hay, United Kingdom

• Mr. Marios Kouloumas, Cyprus

• Dr. Fernando León Vazquez

• Prof. Rik Lories, Belgium

• Prof. Gary J. Macfarlane, United Kingdom

• Prof. Dennis McGonagle, United Kingdom

• Prof. Ulf Müller-Ladner, Germany

• Dr. Ana Maria Nielsen Bentsen, Spain

• Prof. Costatino Pitzalis, Greece

• Prof. Berent Prakken, Netherlands

• Prof. François Rannou, France

• Prof. Jane D. Salmon, United States

• Prof. Georg Schett, Germany

• Dr. Tanja Stamm, Austria

• Dr. René Toes, Netherlands

• Prof. Ronald van Vollenhoven, Sweden

• Dr. Louise Warbuton, United Kingdom

• Dr. Richard Watts, United Kingdom

• Prof. Angela Zink, Germany