EULAR Quality of Care Committee
The Quality of Care Committee improves the life of people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) by developing recommendations, points to consider and further guidance on the prevention, diagnosis, classification, and treatment of RMDs, by optimising the methodology for collecting, interpreting and communicating data leading to EULAR’s recommendations, by acquiring the best members for EULAR’s task forces according to EULAR’s standardised operating procedures for guideline development, and by supervising the training and quality of EULAR’s pool of methodologists.
Quality of Care Committee By-Laws
Chair: Dr George Fragoulis, Greece
Chair-elect: Prof Bernhard Hellmich, Germany
Advisors: Prof Daniel Aletaha, Austria & Prof Laure Gossec, France
ACR-EULAR Liaison: Dr Ulf Mueller-Ladner, Germany
Committee Members
Alessandro Consolaro, Italy
Mandate duration: Jun-25 – Jun-29
Jet Veldhuijzen van Zanten, United Kingdom
Mandate duration: Jun-25 – Jun-29
George Metsios, Greece
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Nadia Malliou, Greece
Mandate duration: Jun-25 – Jun-29
Nele Cayers, Belgium
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Fabian Proft, Germany
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Kim Lauper, Switzerland
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Catalin Codreanu, Romania
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Christopher Holroyd, United Kingdom
Mandate duration: Jun-26 – Jun-30
Íñigo Rua Figueroa, Spain
Mandate duration: Jun-25 – Jun-29
Kati Mykkanen, Finland
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Kotyla Przemyslav, Poland
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Adeline Ruyssen-Wiltrand, France
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Andreas Kerschbaumer, Austria
Mandate duration: Jun-25 – Jun-29
Annette van der Helm van Mil, Netherlands
Mandate duration: Jun-25 – Jun-29
Merete Heltand, Denmark
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Vincenzo Venerito, Italy
Mandate duration: Jun-25 – Jun-29
Paul Studenic, Austria
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Till Uhlig, Norway
Mandate duration: Jun-23 – Jun-27
Alessia Alunno, Italy
Mandate duration: Jun-24 – Jun-28
Philipp Bosch, Austria
Mandate duration: Jun-24 – Jun-28
Bruno Fautrel, France
Mandate duration: Jun-24 – Jun-28
Sofia Ramiro, Netherlands
Mandate duration: Jun-24 – Jun-28

Related Information
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EULAR Task Forces bring experts in rheumatology fields together to share expertise and facilitate best practice exchange and ongoing medical development. Discover the fields of EULAR Task Forces and join today.
EULAR Recommendations
The EULAR Committees regularly establish and publish recommendations for the treatment of various rheumatic disorders. Each of these recommendations are developed by a Task Force of specialists in their field.
Study Groups
EULAR study groups are established networks in their respective fields and play an active part in the research and treatment of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
EULAR Quality of Care General Project Proposals
All EULAR Quality of Care project proposals, that do not fit in the existing Task Forces or Implementation projects submission frameworks, should be submitted to the Quality of Care department in the following deadlines:
- 1 September
- 1 October
- 1 November
- 1 February
- 1 March
- 1 April
- 1 May
- 1 June
The final decision on project and budget approval will be communicated after the internal review processes have been completed.
Download the EULAR Project Proposal template
Submit your proposal to the EULAR Quality of Care Department :
[email protected]
EULAR Scientific and Clinical Activities
EULAR fosters a multitude of activities in the field of research and supports projects in rheumatology by funding collaborative research between European rheumatology groups in fields that are in line with the mission, goals and strategies of EULAR.
EULAR Statutes, Reports, and By-Laws
The official statutes of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology, EULAR
EULAR Committees
Established by the Board, Committees are set up to manage and perform the various activities of EULAR on behalf of the Council.