EULAR Education Committee

The Education Committee formulates and promotes education and training opportunities in rheumatology by developing tailored materials and courses, by deploying innovative learning approaches, by facilitating broad access to these educational offers, and by fostering and contributing to the harmonization of educational standards in rheumatology across Europe.The committee coordinates the work of the Sub-Committees (online courses, live courses, training/CME).

Education Committee By-Laws 

Educational Sub-Committee Regulations 

Live Courses Sub-Committee Regulations

Online Courses Sub-Committee  Regulations

Training CME Sub-Committee Regulations

Chair:  Prof. Christopher Edwards, United Kingdom
Chair-elect:   Simona Rednic,  Romania
Sub-committee Chairs:  Dr. Xenofon Baraliakos, Dr. Aurélie Najm, Dr. Christopher Edwards
Advisors:  Prof.   Annamaria Iagnocco, Prof. Maurizio Cutolo 
Consultants:  Dr. Catherine Haines, Prof. Eric Hachulla

  

 
 


Committee Members

Abhishek Abhishek, United Kingdom
Jordi Anton, Spain
Martin Aringer, Germany
Peter Balint, Hungary
Xenofon Baraliakos, Germany
Roberto Felice Caporali, Italy
Kaushik Chaudhuri, United Kingdom
Christian Dejaco, Austria
Benoit Le Goff, France
Jordi Antón López, Spain 
Espen Haavardsholm, Norway
Tue Kragstrup, Denmark
Andrea Ascencao Marques, Portugal
Aurelie Najm, United Kingdom
Sarah Ohrndorf, Germany
Ivan Padjen, Croatia
Wilfred Peter, Netherlands
Vappu Rantalaiho, Finland
Simona Rednic, Romania
Victoria Romero, Spain
Wolfgang Schmidt, Germany
Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Greece
Codruta Zabalan, Romania

 

Education Sub-Committee Live Courses 

Sub-committee chair:  Aurélie Najm
Alessia Alunno, Italy
Xenofon Baraliakos, Germany
Katerina Chatzidionysiou, Sweden
Maurizio Cutolo, Italy  
Christian Dejaco, Austria
João Madruga Dias, Portugal
Brunno Fautrel, France
Andrew Filer, United Kingdom
Francis Guillemin, France
Annamaria Iagnocco, Italy
Pedro Machado, United Kingdom
Peter Mandl, Austria
Silvia Manzoni, Italy
Andrea Marques, Portugal
Aurelie Najm, United Kingdom
Karin Niederman, Switzerland
Elena Nikiphorou, United Kingdom
Sofia Ramiro, Netherlands
Wolfgang Schmidt, Germany
Vanessa Smith, Belgium
Lene Terslev, Denmark 
Hans Ulrich-Scherer, Netherlands
Marie-Elise Truchetet, France

 

Education Sub-Committee Online Courses

Sub-committee chair(s): Xenofon Baraliakos
Consultant(s): Catherine Haines, Eric Hachulla
Alessia Alunno, Italy
Cosimo Bruni, Italy
Frank Buttgereit, Germany
Ricard Cervera, Italy​
Marco Cimmino, Italy
Maurizio Cutolo, Italy
Christian Dejaco, Austria
Torsten Diekhoff, Germany
Antonios Fanouriakis, Greece
Meryem-Maud Farhat, France
Daniel Glinatsi, Sweden​ 
Annamaria Iagnocco, Italy  
Martin Krusche, Germany
Alberto Martini, Italy
Elsa Mateous, Portugal
Carina Mihai, Switzerland
Aurelie Najm, United Kingdom
Elena Nikiphorou, United Kingdom
Terry O'Neil, United Kingdom
Wilfred Peter, Netherlands
Garifallia Sakellariou, Italy
Philipp Sewerin, Germany
Vanessa Smith, Belgium
Paul Studenic, Austria
Katerina Tsekoura, Greece
Nelly Ziade, Lebanon

 

Education Sub-Committee Training-CME

Sub-committee chair(s): Christopher Edwards
Alessia Alunno, Italy
Martin Aringer, Germany
Tadej Avcin, Slovenia
Xenofon Baraliakos, Germany
Roberto Felice Caporali, Italy
Richard Conway, United Kingdom
João Madruga Dias, Portugal
Eric Hachulla, France
Mette Holland-Fischer, Denmark
Martin Krusche, Germany
Jaap van Laar, Netherlands
György Nagy, Hungary
Marloes van Onna, Netherlands
Carlo Perricone, Italy
Thao Pham, France
Sofia Ramiro, Netherlands
Sebastien Sanges, France
Philipp Sewerin, Germany
José António Pereira da Silva, Portugal
Francisca Sivera, Spain
Jacob M. van Laar, Netherlands 
Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Greece

 

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