Speakers


Abhishek Abhishek, MBBS, MRCP(UK), PhD
Professor of Rheumatology
The University of Nottingham
Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Nottingham, UK
Jessica Bertrand, PhD
Professor
Experimentelle Orthopädie
Otto-von-Guericke Universität
Magdeburg, Germany
Sung Kweon Cho, MD, PhD
Molecular Genetics Epidemiology Studies Section
Basic Research Laboratory, CCR, NCI
Frederick, Maryland, USA
Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Gout and Crystal Arthropathy Center
Director, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Outcomes
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Tania O. Crișan, MD, PhD
Medical Genetics Department
“Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Nicola Dalbeth, MD FRACP
Professor and Rheumatologist
University of Auckland and Auckland District Health Board
Auckland, New Zealand
Georgios Filippou, MD, PhD
Rheumatology Department
"Luigi Sacco" University Hospital
Milan, Italy
John FitzGerald, MD, PhD
Professor, Clinical Chief
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, USA
Angelo L. Gaffo, MD MsPH FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Rheumatology Section Chief
Birmingham VA Medical Center
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Catherine L Hill, MBBS MD MSc FRACP
Rheumatologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Professor, University of Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia
Leo Joosten, PhD
Professor of Mechanisms of Inflammatory Diseases
Radboud University Medical Centre
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Eric E. Kelley, PhD
Associate Professor
West Virginia University
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Seoyoung C. Kim, MD, ScD, MSCE
Director, Program in Rheumatologic, Immunologic, and Musculoskeletal PharmacoEpidemiology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics
Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Geraldine M. McCarthy MD, FRCPI
Consultant Rheumatologist and Professor of Medicine
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and University College
Dublin, Ireland
Tony Merriman, PhD
Professor
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
David Bruce Mount MD
Associate/Clinical Chief, Renal Division
Brigham and Women's Hospital: Renal Division, VA Boston
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Rachel Murdoch, MBChB
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Sonia Nasi, PhD
University Hospital Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology
Chief of Rheumatology
Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Konstantin Neumann
Biochemist
Dr. rer. nat.
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany
Savvas Nicolaou, MD
Professor of Radiology, Director of Emergency/Trauma Imaging at Vancouver General
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Heiyoung Park, PhD
Program Director, Scleroderma, Fibrosis, and Autoinflammatory Disease Program
Division of Extramural Research
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Raewyn Poulsen, PhD
Senior Lecturer
The University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Philip Riches, MD
Rheumatologist and Hon Senior Lecturer
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
Pascal Richette, MD, PhD
Rheumatology Department
Lariboisière Hospital
Paris, France
Philip Robinson, MBChB PhD FRACP
Associate Professor
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Ann Rosenthal, MD
Will and Cava Ross
Professor of Medicine and Chief of Rheumatology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Sara Tedeschi, MD, MPH
Rheumatologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts USA
Robert Terkeltaub, MD
Professor of Medicine
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California, USA
Yuqing Zhang, DSc
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  

Early Career Investigators - Oral Presenters


Victoria Halperin Kuhns, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Meagan Leask, PhD
Biochemistry Department
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
Natalie McCormick, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Clinical Epidemiology Program, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Melissa Meyer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
La Jolla, California, USA
Nick Sumpter, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Chio Yokose, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Award Recipients


Anna Köttgen, MD MPH
Director, Institute of Genetic Epidemiology
University Medical Center Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Adrienne Tin, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Jacob M. Wozniak, PhD
Post-doctoral Scholar
Parker and Teijaro Labs
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California, USA
  
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