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COUNTRY LIAISONS
What is a Country Liaison?
EMEUNET’s main objectives are to enhance the quality of research and education
among emerging rheumatologists and researchers, by identifying their needs and
facilitating the communication among them. In order to facilitate this communication,
EMEUNET has a liaison in each country within EULAR, the so-called “EMEUNET Country
Liaison”.
Country liaisons are links of EMEUNET to each EULAR country and a vital pillar of the
network, as they contribute to the spread of EMEUNET. They provide a strong support
to the development of EMEUNET into a well-established network reaching the vast
majority of young rheumatologists and researchers across Europe.
There is one country liaison per each member country of EULAR. The liaison must be a
member of EMEUNET and may be part of the EMEUNET Working Group. This is a 1-
year position, which cannot be kept for more than 3 years.
What does a Country Liaison do?
EMEUNET country liaisons have the responsibility to disseminate information prepared
by EMEUNET (e.g. newsletters, website) within their country among young
rheumatologists (rheumatologists < 40 years old, trainees included) and researchers in
rheumatology; to promote and disseminate EMEUNET within their country – attract
young rheumatologists and researchers to become EMEUNET members; to maintain
updated mailing lists of trainees, young rheumatologists and researchers in
rheumatology within their country in order to efficiently deliver information received by
EMEUNET; and to give feedback and suggestions to the EMEUNET Working Group
members/Steering Committee. Moreover, being an EMEUNET country liaison can also
be a way to start actively to collaborate with EMEUNET and eventually make the next
step to become a Working Group member (EMEUNET members can apply for Working
Group membership on a yearly basis).
Why is it important for you to know who your Country Liaison is?
The Country Liaison is the person of contact of EMEUNET within your country. Country
liaisons act as a link between EMEUNET and young clinicians and researchers, usually
by communicating information from EMEUNET to the young researchers and clinicians,
but also the other way round (from young researchers/clinicians to EMEUNET), they
can report to the EMEUNET Working Group and EMEUNET Steering Committee the
specifics needs of EMEUNET members and emerging professionals in each EULAR
country, and if necessary, give input to the EULAR Standing Committees within EULAR.
If you are a young rheumatologist or researcher, make sure that you know who your
country liaison is and that he/she includes you in his/her mailing list.
What does a Country Liaison do?
EMEUNET country liaisons have the responsibility to disseminate information prepared
by EMEUNET (e.g. newsletters, website) within their country among young
rheumatologists (rheumatologists < 40 years old, trainees included) and researchers in
rheumatology; to promote and disseminate EMEUNET within their country – attract
Ledio Collaku MD - Albania Ledio became a rheumatologist in 2003, and increased his skills in musculoskeletal ultrasonography during an international experience in Florence, Italy. He currently works at the University Hospital "Mother Teresa" and has a teaching position in the clinic of Internal Medicine. He is currently preparing his PhD thesis about cardiovascular involvement in rheumatoid arthritis. [email protected]
Liana Ghukasyan MD - Armenia Liana became a rheumatologist in 2004. She currently works as a rheumatologist at the Rheumatology Department, Medical Center Erebouni, Yerevan, Armenia. She gained international experience in Holland in 2011. Her professional and scientific interests focus on rheumatoid arthritis, early arthritis, spondyloarthritis and osteoporosis. [email protected]
Helga Radner MD, PhD - Austria Helga currently works as a rheumatology fellow at the Medical University Vienna. Her scientific career begun in 2008 when she started to work under the supervision of Josef Smolen and Daniel Aletaha. Her special research focus is on outcomes in chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases, mainly rheumatoid arthritis, and on co-morbidities and their influence on important outcomes. She is responsible for CARAbase, a big prospective Viennese database including RA, PsA and AS patients, and is involved in different international projects. Currently she is the EMEUNET Website Subgroup leader. [email protected]
Anastasyia Tushina MD, PhD - Belarus She completed her PhD program and is currently working as an assistant at the 2nd Department of Internal Diseases in Belarusian State Medical University, Minsk (Belarus). Her field of interest in rheumatology concerns secondary amyloidosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. [email protected]
Ellen De Langhe MD - Belgium She is a rheumatologist in training at University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, and a PhD student. Her thesis focuses on BMP and Wnt signalling in mouse models of systemic sclerosis in the Laboratory for Skeletal Development & Joint Disorders, Leuven, Belgium. Her areas of interest focus on pulmonary and skin fibrosis, animal models, BMP and Wnt signalling pathway. She is an EMEUNET working group member. [email protected]
Samir Mehmedagice MD - Bosnia and Herzegovina He completed his training as an internist in 2011 in the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo, and is currently working in the Department of Rheumatology. His main area of interest is cardiovascular disease in rheumatic patients. [email protected]
Russka Shumnalieva MD - Bulgaria She became a medical doctor in 2009. She is currently working at St. Ivan Rilski Hospital, Clinic of Rheumatology in Sofia/Bulgaria as a PhD student and a resident in rheumatology. She is working on her PhD thesis on genetics and epigenetics of rheumatoid arthritis. Her professional and scientific interests focus on the discovery of new biomarkers for inflammatory joint diseases and systemic autoimmune diseases, biological and gene therapies. She gained international experience in Glasgow and Amsterdam. [email protected]
Antigoni Grigoriou MD - Cyprus She is currently a Rheumatology resident in London, working at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. Her fields of interest includes inflammatory arthritis vasculitis/SLE, metabolic bone diseases as well as musculoskeletal ultrasound. She is responsible for the teaching of medical students. She is also about to complete an MSc in Rheumatology at Kings College London. [email protected]
Marko Baresic MD - Croatia He completed his Internal Medicine residency in 2009 and Rheumatology training in May 2012 at the University Hospital Center Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia. He is currently working on his thesis about disease activity and damage indices in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. His professional interests include SLE, systemic sclerosis (early and late stages of the disease), inflammatory myopathies and capillaroscopy in different rheumatic diseases. [email protected]
Ladislav Šenolt MD, PhD - Czech Republic Ladislav is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and head of the Connective Tissue Research Laboratory at the Institute of Rheumatology in Prague. He gained international experience during a research fellowship at the University Hospital in Zurich. He is a delegate member of the EULAR Standing Committee on Musculoskeletal Imaging. Ladislav is especially interested in RA pathogenesis, biomarkers and novel therapies. He is a former EMEUNET Working Group member. [email protected]
Mette Holland-Fischer MD - Denmark She is Staff Specialist and Research Fellow at the Department of Rheumatology, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. Her major research interests include infection risk and prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis patients. She is an EMEUNET Working Group member. [email protected]
Raili Müller MD, PhD - Estonia Raili graduated from the University of Tartu in 2005 and finished her training in rheumatology in 2011. She is now a rheumatologist and has a teaching position in Tartu University Hospital. She is currently preparing her PhD thesis at the University of Tartu, focusing on rheumatoid arthritis, body composition and adipocytokines. [email protected]
Tuomas Rannio MD - Finland Tuomas completed his medical training at the University of Kuopio and served as a general practitioner since 2007. In 2010 he started rheumatology training at the Jyväskylä Central Hospital. He is currently working on his PhD thesis, focusing on early rheumatoid arthritis treatment in usual clinical care. [email protected]
Cécile Gaujoux-Viala MD, PhD - France Cécile occupies half-time clinical position and half-time research and teaching position at the Montpellier 1 University and Carémeau Hospital in Nîmes, in the south of France. Her major research interest is outcome assessment, in particular the evaluation of the benefits in health in bone and joint diseases especially in rheumatoid arthritis. She is an EMEUNET working group member and belongs to the EMEUNET Newsletter subgroup. [email protected]
Axel J Hueber MD, PhD - Germany Axel is a clinical and research fellow in the Immunology and Rheumatology Department at University of Erlangen in Germany. Axel completed his PhD in the United Kingdom in 2011. He was an ACR/EULAR exchange program fellow in 2008. His main interest area focuses on cytokine biology in synovial inflammation, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. He is an EMEUNET working group member [email protected]
Antonis Fanouriakis MD - Greece Antonis graduated from Athens Medical School and completed a MSc program in the University of Crete on "The Molecular Basis of Human Diseases", directed by Prof. Dimitri Boumpas. He is currently a 3rd year Rheumatology Fellow in the University Hospital of Heraklion and a PhD candidate. His scientific interests focus on systemic autoimmune diseases, mainly pathogenesis and treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus. [email protected]
Gyorgy Nagy MD, PhD - Hungary Gyorgy is a consultant rheumatologist in Semmelweis University in Budapest, where he is a also a habilitated lecturer. He gained international experience during a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Rheumatology at State University of New York, Syracuse, USA. His scientific interests focus on nitric oxide, T lymphocytes and microparticles. Gyorgy is an EMEUNET working group member and belongs to the EMEUNET Education subgroup. [email protected]
Giuseppe Zampogna MD - Italy Giuseppe is a rheumatologist in training at the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties of the University of Genoa. His areas of interest include epidemiology of rheumatic diseases and musculoskeletal imaging, in particular peripheral joints MRI, nailfold capillaroscopy and post-processing software. [email protected]
Mary Connolly MD, PhD - Ireland Mary is a post-doctoral fellow at the Dublin Academic Medical Centre, Ireland. Her research focuses on using novel arthritic models to identify mechanisms involved in the pathogenic process of inflammatory arthritis, with particular emphasis on angiogenesis, hypoxia-induced mitochondrial pathways and novel mediators/cytokines involved in cartilage destruction. She is an EMEUNET working group member. [email protected]
Gunnar Tomasson MD - Iceland
Nelly Ziadé MD - Lebanon Nelly became a rheumatologist in 2006. She is currently practicing in Beirut as a full time rheumatologist at the University Hospital (Hotel-Dieu de France) and as a lecturer at the Saint-Joseph University. She got a PhD degree in Public Health – Epidemiology from Paris Descartes University (France) and Saint-Joseph University (Lebanon), and her main areas of interest are early inflammatory arthritis and spondylarthropathies. [email protected]
Julija Zepa MD - Latvia Julija became a rheumatologist in 2011 at the University of Latvia. Since 2005 she has been working at the Center of Rheumatology in Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital; her areas of interest focus on rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathies (including genetic aspects of ankylosing spondylitis – which is the topic of her thesis for her Doctor’s degree); she is also involved in education of primary care physicians and medical students. [email protected]
Diana Karpec MD - Lithuania Diana completed her MD at Kaunas University of Medicine. Currently she is a senior resident of rheumatology in Vilnius University Santariskiu Hospital and will become a rheumatologist in 2013. Diana gained international experience while she was in training both at the Florence University Hospital, Italy and at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Her main interest area focuses on connective tissue diseases. She is an EMEUNET working group member. [email protected]
Maja Bojadziovska - Macedonia Maja Bojadzioska became a rheumatologist in 2010. She is currently working at the clinical hospital for rheumatology in Skopje. Her professional and scientific interests focus on patients with arthritis and postmenopausal osteoporosis. She also works as an assistant at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje. [email protected]
Karen Cassar MD, PhD - Malta Karen trained in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology in Malta with overseas experience in Bangor, North West Wales. She was awarded the Master’s Degree of Bioethics with Distinction from the University of Malta in 2011. The focus of her research and her thesis was informed consent and shared decision making in Maltese patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases requiring treatment with DMARDs and/or biological agents. Karen was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2012. She has recently been appointed Consultant Physician at Mater Dei Hospital, Malta and is a part-time lecturer at the University of Malta. [email protected]
Elena Deseatnicova MD, PhD - Moldova Elena became a rheumatologist in 2001. In 2007 she defended her PhD thesis with the title “Clinical-Evolutionary Features, Indexes of Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidant System in Gout“. Currently she has a teaching position as Associate Professor at the Department of Rheumatology of the State Medical and Pharmaceutical University Nicolae Testemitanu and works at the Clinical Municipal Hospital St. Trinity. The field of her scientific interest is osteoporosis, especially secondary osteoporosis in rheumatic and non-rheumatic pathologies, association of rheumatic diseases and other diseases possessing a metabolic background. [email protected]
Dusan Mustur MD - Montenegro Dusan Mustur became a rheumatologist in 2010 in Belgrade, Serbia. He is currently working at Igalo Institute, Montenegro. He is also the Vice Dean for Science and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Applied Physiotherapy, University of Montenegro. [email protected]
Sander W. Tas MD, PhD - The Netherlands He is an internist and rheumatologist at the Academic Medical Center at University of Amsterdam, Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, EULAR & FOCIS Center of Excellence. He gained international experience during fellowships at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London and Harvard Medical School in Boston. His PhD thesis concerned the modulation of immune responses in arthritis by targeting NF-kappaB. His professional interests focus on rheumatoid arthritis, NF-kappaB signaling, dendritic cells, angiogenesis and gene therapy. Sander is an EMEUNET working group member, and is a member of both the Country Liaison and Website subgroups. [email protected]
Espen A. Haavardsholm MD, PhD - Norway Espen is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher and a Leader of the clinical trial unit of the outpatient clinic at the Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo, Norway. His main research areas focus on imaging in inflammatory rheumatic diseases with a special interest in MRI and US, interventional trials, treatment strategies, outcome research in rheumatic diseases, early arthritis, secondary osteoporosis, biomarkers and registries. Futhermore, Espen is a member of the EULAR Standing Committee on Musculoskeletal Imaging and a member of EULAR Task Force on EULAR Points to Consider for the use of Imaging of Peripheral Joints in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Practice. [email protected]
Jan Sznajd MD, PhD - Poland Jan is an academic teacher and fellow in training in rheumatology. He works at the Allergy and Immunology Clinic at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He is a specialist in internal medicine and nuclear medicine. His PhD thesis concerned myocardial perfusion abnormalities in SLE patients. His professional interests focus on connective tissue diseases and vasculitis. Jan is an EMEUNET Working Group Member involved in the Education and Newsletter subgroups. [email protected]
Sofia Ramiro MD, MSc - Portugal Sofia is a rheumatologist in training at Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal. She has already achieved an MSc in Public Health and Epidemiology. Sofia is currently a PhD candidate at the AMC, University of Amsterdam. She is investigating long-term outcomes in ankylosing spondylitis. Her main interests focus on outcomes in spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and innovative therapies. Within EMEUNET she is the leader of the Education subgroup. [email protected]
Rucsandra Dobrota - Romania Rucsandra is a medical resident in Rheumatology and is currently doing her training at Dr. I. Cantacuzino Clinical Hospital in Bucharest, Romania. She has been involved in clinical research since her university years focusing mainly on systemic sclerosis and is presently working within the EUSTAR centre 100. As a young resident she has participated in several EULAR courses. Her main areas of interest are scleroderma, Raynaud’s phenomenon, connective tissue diseases and psychosomatics of chronic illness. [email protected]
Predrag Ostojic MD, PhD - Serbia Predrag completed his undergraduate studies, specialization in Internal medicine and Rheumatology, Master studies and PhD at the University of Belgrade, School of Medicine. His main fields of interest in Rheumatology are systemic sclerosis and undifferentiated arthritis. He gained international experience in Italy and Great Britain, and is currently working at the Institute of Rheumatology, Belgrade, Serbia. Predrag is an Assistant Professor of Internal medicine and Rheumatology at the University of Belgrade, School of Medicine, and he is the Secretary of the Rheumatology Association of Serbia (RAS) and Coordinator of a project to establish a nationwide network of early arthritis clinics in Serbia. [email protected]
Andrea Čaničová MD - Slovakia Andrea is a rheumatologist in training. She received her MD at Masaryk University Brno in 2009. She currently works at the Institute of Rheumatology in Piešťany, Slovakia. Her main interest area focuses on connective tissue diseases. [email protected]
Mojca Frank Bertoncelj MD, PhD - Slovenia Mojca graduated at the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Ljubljana and gained her PhD in Biomedicine at the University of Ljubljana in 2010. Since 2011 she has been working as a postdoctoral research fellow, at the Center of Experimental Rheumatology in Zurich, Switzerland. Her main areas of research focus on RA, cardiovascular disease, activation of synovial fibroblast, epigenetics, microvesicles/microparticles and microvesicle-mediated intercellular communication. She is an EMEUNET working group member and belongs to the EMEUNET Peer Mentoring subgroup. [email protected]
Isabel Castrejon MD - Spain Isabel is a Rheumatologist since 2007. She trained at Hospital Universitario La Princesa in Madrid (Spain) and is a research collaborator at the Department of Rheumatology. Since 2010 she has been working as a clinical research fellow in a program concerning outcomes in rheumatic diseases at the Hospital for Joint Diseases under the supervision of Prof. Theodore Pincus (NYC). Her main interest areas focus on outcomes research, epidemiology and RA. Isabel is involved in a taskforce for the development of a EULAR toolbox online for patient reported outcomes (PROs). She is the subgroup leader for the EMEUNET Peer Mentoring subgroup. [email protected]
Johan Karlsson MD - Sweden Johan is a rheumatologist in training at the Department of Rheumatology, University hospital of Skåne, in southern Sweden since early 2010. He is currently the elect representative for rheumatologists in training in the board of the Swedish Rheumatology Association. The subjects of his ongoing thesis work are health-related quality of life and health economics in rheumatoid arthritis. [email protected]
Britta Maurer MD - Switzerland Britta has a double position as an attending rheumatologist at the Department of Rheumatology and as senior research fellow at the Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. She is an EMEUNET working group member and is involved in activities of the Peer-Mentoring Subgroup. [email protected]
Sonia Panchal MD - UK Sonia is a trainee rheumatologist in the UK, currently working within the University Hospitals of Leicester. She is the chair of the BSR national trainees committee and country liaison for EMEUNET. Her interests within rheumatology include pregnancy and rheumatic disease, influence of ethnicity on disease and inflammatory arthritis. [email protected]
Sabina Shabanova MD, PhD - Russia Sabina is a research associate at the Department of Systemic Rheumatic Diseases in the Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow. She became a rheumatologist in 2000. She achieved her PhD degree in 2004. She gained international experience in the University of Genova in Italy. Her scientific interests focus on systemic rheumatic diseases and neuroendocrine immunology. She is an EMEUNET Working Group and Country Liaison subgroup member. [email protected], [email protected]
Stephania Volpinari MD - San Marino Rheumatologist since 2008, Stefania trained at S. Anna Hospital - University of Ferrara, Italy. She currently works in the Republic of S. Marino’s Hospital, at the Division of Internal Medicine and at the Rheumatology Unit. Her main interest areas focus on rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis, connective tissue disorders, osteoporosis and ultrasound in rheumatic diseases. [email protected], [email protected]
Iuliia Biliavska MD, PhD - Ukraine Iuliia graduated from National Medical University in 2004 with honors. In 2006 she became a rheumatologist and PhD student in the Department of Non-Coronary Heart Diseases and Clinical Rheumatology at the Institute of Cardiology. In 2009 she defended her PhD thesis focusing on the clinical value of anti-CCP antibodies in RA patients with different disease duration. In 2011 she was an Articulum Fellow at the Medical University Vienna. At the moment her main research area of interest is the management of rheumatic patients with hepatic comorbidity. [email protected]
Other Country Liaisons (who could not provide photo or CV) are:
- Turkey: Koray Tascilar - [email protected]
- Georgia: Khatuna Letsveridze - [email protected]
We are still in the process of establishing links with active liaison from Israel. The list of Country Liaisons will be updated as soon as the missing liaisons will be identified. Anna Moltó and Jan Sznajd on behalf of the Country Liaisons and the Newsletter subgroups