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EDITION AUGUST 2015
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EDITION AUGUST 2015 THE EMERGING EULAR NETWORK SPECIAL EDITION: MEET THE EMEUNET WORKING GROUP 2015-2016 EDITORIAL Dear young rheumatologists and DIRECTORY researchers in rheumatology, We are happy to present you a new issue of EMEUNEWS
THE EMERGING EULAR NETWORK
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We are happy to present you a new issue of EMEUNEWS and to introduce the EMEUNET Working Group 2015-2016. This group represents the EMEUNET Community and undertakes the organisational role to facilitate the wider aims of EMEUNET. Currently the EMEUNET Working Group has 43 people from most of the EULAR Countries. The application process is competitive and takes place annually in April-May. Applications are scored by the EMEUNET Steering Committee and a decision is made primarily on scientific merit, but also by country representation, age, and prior work done within EMEUNET or in national young rheumatologists’ associations. If you would like to join the EMEUNET Working Group and be actively involved in our activities keep an eye on emails from EMEUNET and do not miss next call for application! If you already applied but have not been selected, this does not preclude you to apply again the following year. In this issue you will also find details about upcoming educational EULAR events. If this is your first contact with EMEUNET, we invite you to explore more and join us. If you are already part of our community, we kindly remind you that sharing is caring. Spread the word about
young rheumatologists and researchers. We hope that you enjoy reading this Newsletter and would be happy to receive any comments or contributions for future issues. The EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup EMEUNET WORKING GROUP 2015-2016 4 EMEUNET Steering Committee EMEUNET Working Group EULAR POSTGRADUATE COURSE 14 EULAR REGISTERS AND OBSERVATIONAL DRUG STUDIES (RODS) 15
More information about EMEUNET can be found in http://emeunet.eular.org You can also reach us through the following email emeunet@eular.ch www.facebook.com/EMEUNET www.twitter.com/EMEUNET
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Sofia Ramiro, MD PhD- Portugal/The Netherlands
Sofia is a rheumatology trainee at the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. She has recently finished her PhD at the University of Amsterdam on long-term outcomes in ankylosing spondylitis under the supervision of Prof. Landewé and Prof. van der Heijde. She has done a Master in Epidemiology at Maastricht University. Her research focuses in axial spondyloarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, imaging and outcomes research. She comes originally from Portugal and has an appointment at Nova Medical School in Lisbon. Sofia is currently Chair-Elect for EMEUNET. sofiaramiro@gmail.com
Anna Moltó, MD PhD- Spain/France
Anna became a rheumatologist in 2010, and defended this year her PhD thesis on diagnosis and treatment in real life in early axial spondyloarthritis. She is currently a staff Rheumatologist and Clinical/Epidemiological researcher in Pr Dougados Department of Rheumatology in Cochin Hospital in Paris. Her professional and scientific interests focuses on outcome measures, especially in spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy in rheumatic inflammatory diseases. Anna is currently the Chair of EMEUNET. anna.molto@cch.aphp.fr
Caroline Ospelt, MD PhD- Switzerland
Caroline works as postdoctoral fellow in the Center of Experimental Rheumatology in Zurich, Switzerland since 2003. Her research focuses on epigenetic changes, microRNA expression and innate immune pathways in synovial fibroblasts of rheumatoid arthritis patients. Caroline is the past Chair of EMEUNET. caroline.ospelt@usz.ch
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Mike Becker, MD- Germany
Mike, after starting out in Haemato-Oncology, has been a clinical and research fellow in the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the Charité Medical Faculty in Berlin, Germany, since 2007. He earned a MSc degree by doing immunology research at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University, UK. His main interests are connective tissue diseases, especially systemic sclerosis. Mike is a member of the EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup. Mike.Becker@charite.de
Christian Gytz Ammitzbøll, MD PhD– Denmark
Christian currently works in the Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital,
c.ammitz@gmail.com
Sibel Zehra Aydin, MD- Turkey
Sibel, following a research fellowship in Leeds, now works as consultant rheumatologist and clinical researcher in Istanbul. Her main interests are imaging in spondyloarthritis, focusing on ultrasonography
Peer Mentoring Subgroup. drsibelaydin@gmail.com
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Alessia Alunno, MD- Italy
Alessia became a rheumatologist in 2012 and currently works as consultant and PhD candidate at the Rheumatology Unit, University of Perugia, Italy. Her research interest focuses on the role of T and B lymphocyte subsets in the pathogenesis of Sjögren’s syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. She is currently the leader of the EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup and a member of the Country Liaison Subgroup. alessia.alunno@libero.it
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Mary Canavan, PhD- Ireland
Mary is a postdoctoral research fellow within the Translational Rheumatology Research Group in St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin. She previously worked as a Research Assistant in the University of Pennsylvania before obtaining her PhD in Immunology from Dublin City University in
dendritic cells and synovial fibroblasts. Current projects include examining the metabolic profile of these cells within the inflamed synovium. Mary is a member of the EMEUNET Social Media and Country Liaison Subgroups and in addition to this is a social media editor for Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. mary.canavan@ucd.ie
Christian Beyer, MD PhD- Germany
Christian is a rheumatology fellow and post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Internal Medicine 3, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (head: Georg Schett). He completed his training at Medical schools of University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Duke University. His main interests are translational fibrosis research, animal models and scleroderma. He is member of F1000, EUSTAR, EULAR online course and German National Academic Foundation. Christian is a member of the EMEUNET Education Subgroup. Christian.Beyer@uk-erlangen.de
Francesco Carubbi, MD PhD- Italy
Francesco has completed his specialist training in rheumatology and a PhD in Internal Medicine and Applied Immunology. He currently works as consultant at the Department of Internal Medicine, ASL 1 Avezzano, L’Aquila, Sulmona, and research associate at the Rheumatology Unit, University
for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology, Queen Mary University of London, UK. His main interests are Sjögren’s syndrome, B-cell targeted therapies, salivary gland histopathology, spondyloarthritis and musculoskeletal ultrasonography. Francesco is a member of the EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup. francescocarubbi@libero.it PAGE 5
Richard Conway, MD- Ireland
Richard, MB BCh BAO MRCPI LRCSI CCD, has completed specialist training in rheumatology and general internal medicine and is currently a vasculitis fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland. His major research interests include giant cell arteritis and meta-analysis. Richard is a member of the EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup. drrichardconway@gmail.com AUGUST15
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Tamas Gati, MD- Hungary
Tamas is a Rheumatologist consultant (2010), at Department Section of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy of the Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God in Budapest, Hungary. His main research area focuses
inflammatory rheumatic diseases, registers, and musculoskeletal ultrasound. Tamas is a member of the EMEUNET Website Subgroup. tomgati@gmail.com PAGE 6
Rucsandra Dobrota, MD- Romania
Rucsandra is a resident in Rheumatology and PhD student from Romania. She is currently working as a clinical science research fellow within the Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital
She is the leader of the EMEUNET Country Liaisons Subgroup and the Country Liaison for Romania. rucsandradobrota@yahoo.com
Christian Dejaco, MD PhD- Austria
Christian is rheumatologist since 2012, and he is currently working as a consultant physician and Associate Professor at the Division of Rheumatology at the Medical University Graz. His main research interests are the value of ultrasound in rheumatology, clinical research on polymyalgia rheumatica/giant cell arteritis and translational research on T lymphocyte senescence in
EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup. christian.dejaco@gmx.net
Ida K. Haugen, MD PhD- Norway
Ida is a Rheumatology fellow and post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Rheumatology at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway. Her research activity is mainly focused on hand
Mentoring subgroup. haugen_ida@hotmail.com AUGUST15
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Jan Leipe, MD- Germany
Jan is a board-certified rheumatologist, has completed specialist training in rheumatology and general internal medicine and is currently an attending physician at University of Munich,
the pathogenesis of autoimmune arthritis. Jan is a member of the EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup. jan.leipe@med.uni-muenchen.de PAGE 7
Marie Kostine, MD- France
Marie is a clinical fellow in Rheumatology at Bordeaux Hospital in France. Currently she is working as a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, on immune infiltrate in bone and soft-tissue tumours. Her main interest area focuses on onco-rheumatology. She is a member of the EMEUNET Global Affairs Subgroup. mariekostine@hotmail.fr
Meghna Jani, MD- United Kingdom
Meghna, MBChB, MSc, is an MRC Clinical Research Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics/ rheumatology specialty trainee, completing her PhD at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests focuses on immunogenicity in response to biologic therapies, biomarkers of treatment response, stratified medicine and drug safety in inflammatory
meghna.jani@manchester.ac.uk
João Madruga Dias, MD- Portugal
João is a Rheumatology Consultant at Centro Hospitalar Médio Tejo (Portugal) with a special interest in inflammatory rheumatic diseases in pregnancy, musculoskeletal ultrasound and
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Christelle Nguyen, MD PhD- France
Christelle is a rheumatologist, she obtained her MD in Paris in 2010, and went on to complete a PhD in Paris in 2015. She was a visiting scientist in the Division of Genomics of Development and Disease at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience in Brisbane, Australia, from 2013 to 2014. She is now Assistant Professor in the Rehabilitation Department of Cochin Hospital in Paris (Prof. Poiraudeau), and clinician scientist at INSERM UMR-S1124 (Prof. Rannou). Her main interests are: intervertebral disc diseases, cartilage biology and non- pharmacological interventions in systemic sclerosis and osteoarthritis. Christelle is a member
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Victoria Navarro, MD- Spain
Victoria is working as a researcher at University Hospital La Paz (IdiPaz) in Madrid, Spain. She is also a PhD candidate at Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, the Netherlands. Her main interests are focused in assessing inflammation and damage in axial spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. She is the leader of the EMEUNET Education Subgroup. mvictorianavarroc@gmail.com
Marcin Milchert, MD PhD- Poland
Marcin is an internist and rheumatologist working as a clinician and research fellow in Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, North-West of Poland. As a clinician he's especially interested in vasculitides and aging related diseases. As a researcher he's happy to join both of these interests, which simply means he's the giant cell arteritis biggest fan. As EMEUNET's Country Liaison he is searching for a proper motivation for young rheumatologists in Poland to get involved in EULAR. Marcin is a member of the EMEUNET Country Liaison and Education subgroups. marcmilc@hotmail.com
Elena Nikiphorou, MD - United Kingdom
Elena, MBBS/BSc, MRCP, PGCME, FHEA, is a consultant rheumatologist at Whittington Hospital, UK. Her main interests focus on inflammatory arthritis, the impact of modern treatments and disease outcomes. She has undertaken her MD Research on structural
medical studies and BSc in Physiology. Elena is a fellow in the EULAR Task Force on data harmonization across observational RA databases. She is the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases (ARD) spokesperson on social media and the leader of the EMEUNET Twitter Team within the Social Media Subgroup. She is also a member of the Country Liaison Subgroup. elena.nikiphorou@nhs.net AUGUST15
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John Pauling, MD PhD- United Kingdom
John is consultant rheumatologist at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases and Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University
His PhD research included validation studies of laser speckle contrast imaging and led to an interest in outcome measures in systemic sclerosis. John leads the RNHRD microvascular imaging service and is a member of the EULAR Microcirculation study group. He is contributing to current initiatives of the UK Scleroderma Study Group and the Scleroderma Clinical Trials Consortium. He is a member of the EMEUNET Social Media Subgroup. johnpauling@nhs.net PAGE 9
Yesim Ozguler, MD- Turkey
Yesim is a second year fellow at Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty. She is working as a fellow for taskforce for new EULAR recommendations for the management of Behçet’s disease. Her main interest areas focus on Behçet’s syndrome and vasculitis. She is a member of the EMEUNET Peer Mentoring Subgroup. yesimozguler@yahoo.com
Anna Olewicz-Gawlik, MD PhD- Poland
Anna is an academic teacher and fellow in training in clinical immunology. She works at the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at Poznan University of Medical Sciences. She is a specialist in internal medicine. Her doctoral dissertation concerned fucosylation of acute phase proteins in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Her professional interests focus on systemic sclerosis, Sjögren’s syndrome and immunology. She is a member
gawla@onet.eu
Mislav Radić, MD PhD- Croatia
Mislav is Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and he is currently working in the Division
clinical interests are systemic sclerosis, osteoarthritis, vasculitis, epidemiology and imaging tools in rheumatology. Mislav is a member of the EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup. mislavradic@gmail.com AUGUST15
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Vasco Romão, MD- Portugal
Vasco is a Rheumatology Clinical and Research Fellow based at the Lisbon Academic Medical
Rheumatology, Queen Mary University of London, with the support of a EULAR Scientific Training
Social Media Subgroup. vascoromao@gmail.com PAGE 10
Felice Rivellese, MD- Italy/United Kingdom
Felice is currently a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Rheumatology of Queen Mary University of London, where he is working on a research project aiming at assessing the involvement of mast cells in the pathogenesis of RA, specifically studying the presence of mast cells in the synovia of RA patients as a marker of disease severity, progression and response to
Naples Federico II. Felice is a member of the EMEUNET Education and Visibility Subgroups. rivelles@gmail.com
Cristophe Richez, MD PhD- France
Cristophe is rheumatologist since 2005 and currently Professor of Rheumatology at Bordeaux Hospital affiliated with University of Bordeaux. He completed his PhD in immunology in 2009. He has got international experience as research scholar in Boston University. His main clinical interests are lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. His research focuses on the involvement of innate immunity in various inflammatory diseases. He is leader of the EMEUNET Global Affair subgroup and a member of the Education Subgroup. cristophe.richez@u-bordeaux.fr
Barbara Ruaro, MD- Italy
Barbara works in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Genoa and currently is a PhD applicant in Immunology. Her main interest area focuses on connective tissue disease. Barbara is a member of the EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup. barbara.ruaro@yahoo.it AUGUST15
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Russka Shumnalieva, MD PhD- Bulgaria
Russka is a rheumatologist since 2014 and has got her PhD in epigenetics in rheumatoid arthritis in 2015. She is currently working as a consultant and senior researcher at the Clinic of rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University-Sofia, Sofia (Bulgaria). Her main research interest focuses on epigenetic changes, microRNA expression, in rheumatic
EMEUNET Education and Newsletter Subgroups. rshumnalieva@yahoo.com PAGE 11
Alexandre Sepriano, MD- Portugal
Alexandre is a rheumatologist in training at Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal. He has got his international experience during a research fellowship at the Rheumatology Department of Leiden University Medical Center, in the context of the 2015 Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS) fellowship. His main research activity focuses on spondyloarthritis and osteoarthritis. Alexandre is a member of the EMEUNET Peer Mentoring Subgroup. alexsepriano@gmail.com
Tânia Santiago, MD- Portugal
Tânia is a rheumatologist since 2014. She was trained at Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, in Coimbra, Portugal. Tânia was a clinical research fellow at University of Leeds in
tlousasantiago@hotmail.com
Walter Alberto Sifuentes Giraldo, MD- Spain
Walter is rheumatologist since 2011. He is currently a research associate at the Department of Rheumatology of the University Hospital Ramon y Cajal in Madrid. He has got international experience during a fellowship in the Rheumatologie Klinik of Charité Universitätsmedizin, Campus Benjamin Franklin in Berlin. His main research interest focuses on pediatric rheumatology, spondyloarthritis and biological therapies. He is a member of the EMEUNET Global Affairs subgroup. albertosifuentesg@gmail.com AUGUST15
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Katrin Thorarinsdottir, MD- Iceland
Katrin got her medical degree at the University of Iceland in 2007. She is a senior resident of rheumatology at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden and will become a rheumatologist in the autumn of 2015. She is a PhD student at the University of Gothenburg. Her scientific interests focus on B cells and the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. She is a member of the EMEUNET Peer Mentoring Subgroup. kthorarins@gmail.com PAGE 12
Paul Studenic, MD- Austria
Paul is a medical resident and clinical research fellow at the division of rheumatology of the Medical University in Wien, Austria. His research focus lies within epidemiologic outcomes in musculoskeletal diseases, especially rheumatoid arthritis, patient reported outcomes, predictors
Paul is a working group member since 2013 and is a member of the EMEUNET Social Media Subgroup, in which he is in charge for the EMEUNET Facebook site. paul.studenic@meduniwien.ac.at
Lucìa Silva, MD- Spain
Lucìa is a rheumatologist since 2007. She worked for two years at the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology in Manchester, UK, and currently works as a consultant rheumatologist in Ferrol, Spain. She is a PhD candidate at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her main research interests are early arthritis, biologics and systemic lupus erythematosus. She is a member of the EMEUNET Peer Mentoring Subgroup. luciasilvaf@yahoo.es
Anne Troldborg, MD- Denmark
Anna finished her medical degree at the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 2007 and basic training in surgery and internal medicine in 2010, and then began her specialist training in Rheumatology. She is currently doing a PhD in innate immunity and SLE. Her fields of interest include immunology, the complement system, SLE and CTDs. She teaches medical students and partakes in the evaluation and improvement of the rheumatologic departments in Denmark responsible for training future specialists in rheumatology led by the Ministry of Health in
annetrol@rm.dk AUGUST15
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Valentina Vardanyan, MD PhD- Armenia
Valentina is Assistant Professor and rheumatologist at the Department of Diseases, Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia. She is also head of Education part in the same Department. Her main interests are rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondiylitis. Valentina is a member of the EMEUNET Country Liaison Subgroup. valentina.vardanyan@gmail.com PAGE 13
Diane van der Woude, MD PhD – The Netherlands
Diane is a staff rheumatologist at the Leiden University Medical Center, where she is head of the outpatient clinic. Her research interests are: autoantibodies, especially anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA), and risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), including genetic risk factors such as the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles. After being a member of the Country Liaison subgroup and the Country Liaison for the Netherlands for two years, she has now joined the EMEUNET Education Subgroup. D.van_der_Woude@lumc.nl
Marlies van der Goes, MD PhD – The Netherlands
Marlies is rheumatologist in training at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, The
EMEUNET Country Liaison Subgroup and is the Country Liaison for The Netherlands. M.C.vanderGoes@umcutrecht.nl
Joanna Zalewska, MD PhD- Poland
Joanna graduated at Faculty of Medicine in Medical University of Bydgoszcz and gained her PhD in Rheumatology at the Medical University of Bydgoszcz in 2014. Joanna is a rheumatologist since 2015. She works as senior assistant at the Jan Biziel Hospital in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Her main area of research focuses on RA, Sjogren Syndrome, Hashimoto disease, effectiveness of radiation synovectomy in rheumatic diseases, SLE and vasculitis. She is a member of EMEUNET Newsletter and Peer Mentoring Subgroups. asia_zetka@wp.pl AUGUST15
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With its postgraduate course, EULAR seeks to update the professional knowledge of young rheumatologists from around the world, whilst giving the participants the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and experiences. Target participants Fellows/residents in rheumatology (particularly those preparing for certifying examinations and those who are registered for the on-line EULAR course) Clinician scientists in rheumatology Newly certified rheumatologists as well as more experienced rheumatologists who need to remain up-to-date in rheumatology and immunology Course description A unique 3-day (Sunday lunchtime through Wednesday lunchtime) refresher, "crash course", in clinical and experimental rheumatology taught by selected faculty of European experts in a very interactive and cordial environment. Participants have the opportunity to meet the experts in an informal setting and network with trainees and rheumatologists from all over the world. Interactive workshop sessions Participants may choose between the following workshops (1 choice)
And can sign up for these 2 workshops
http://www.eular.org/myUploadData/files/PGC_2015_preliminary_programme.pdf
http://www.eular.org/myUploadData/files/PGC%202014%20report%20Beyer_web.pdf
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This open congress has the aim to discuss both practical and theoretical issues around running registers and longitudinal observational drug studies, generating output and understanding their
international collaborative studies. It will furthermore explore issues throughout the lifespan of studies, from first thoughts around establishing a register, practicalities such as funding, bio-banking and informatics, through methods of data collection, opportunities for harmonizing practice, analysis methodology, to the interpretation and dissemination of results. Please, be invited if you fall under any of the following groups and have an interest in registers and longitudinal observational drug studies:
http://www.eular.org/myUploadData/files/RODS_2015_preliminary%20programme%20v2.pdf
http://www.eular.org/epidemiology_registers_observational_drug_studies_presentations_2013.cfm
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