Credits

ACR/ARP Highlights 2019 Editor

Leonard H. Calabrese, DO
ACR/ARP Highlights Editor
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

International Scientific Board

Alessia Alunno, MD, PhD
University of Perugia, Italy

Aurélie Najm, MD
Nantes University Hospital, France

Prof. Yukinori Okada, MD, PhD
Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Fabian Proft, MD
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Javier Rodríguez-Carrio, MD, PhD
University of Oviedo & Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Spain

Priscilla Wong, MD
Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong

Special thanks to

Dott. Stefano Alivernini
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma

Prof. Dr. med. Rieke Alten
Schlosspark-Klinik University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Marie-Claude Beaulieu, MD
Université de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

Stanley B. Cohen, MD
Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Prof. Bernard Combe
CHU et Université de Montpellier, France

Atul A. Deodhar, MD
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

Prof. Haner Direskeneli, MD
Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

Prof. Bassel El-Zorkany, MD
Cairo University, Egypt

Prof. Bruno Fautrel
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, AP-HP, Sorbonne University, UPMC university, Paris, France

Richard A. Furie, MD
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York, NY, USA

Linda Hiraki, MD
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Prof. Annamaria Iagnocco
Università degli studi di Torino, Italy

Diane Kamen, MD, MSCR
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Edward Keystone, MD
Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Dinesh Khanna, MD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Prof. Jesús Tornero Molina
Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, España

Elena Nikiphorou, MD
King’s College London, UK

Prof. Eduardo Paiva, MD, PhD
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

Ingris del Pilar Pelaez Ballestas, MD, PhD
Hospital General de Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Ciudad de México, México

Prof. Bernardo Pons-Estel, MD
Chief of the centro regional de enfermedades autoimmunes y reumaticas, Rosario, Argentina

Janet Pope, MD
University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

Julio Ramírez, MD
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain

Prof. Dr. med. Hendrik Schulze-Koops
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

PD Dr. med. Philipp Sewerin
Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf

Daniel H. Solomon, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Gregg Silverman, MD
New York University School of Medicine, NY, USA

Prof. Tsutomu Takeuchi, MD, PhD
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Lai-Shan Tam, MD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof. Josef Smolen, MD
Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Enrique R. Soriano, MD
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Di Wu, MD
Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

Prof. Francesco Zulian
Università di Padova

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Verona, Italy

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