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THE EMERGING EULAR NETWORK

EDITION AUGUST 2015

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MEET THE EMEUNET

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2015-2016

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DIRECTORY

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EDITORIAL

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Dear young rheumatologists and researchers in rheumatology,

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

our activities and work, and help us reach more

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

[email protected]

www.facebook.com/EMEUNET

www.twitter.com/EMEUNET






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.

[email protected]

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.

[email protected]

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.

[email protected]

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THE EMEUNET STEERING COMMITTEE

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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.

[email protected]

Christian Gytz Ammitzbøll, MD PhD– Denmark

Christian currently works in the Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital,

Denmark. Christian is the leader of the EMEUNET Website Subgroup

[email protected]

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

of the enthesis and new imaging techniques in psoriatic arthritis. She is a member of the EMEUNET

Peer Mentoring Subgroup.

[email protected]

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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.

[email protected]






Mary Canavan, PhD- IrelandMary 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

2012. Mary is interested in the immunopathology of rheumatoid arthritis with a specific interest 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.

[email protected]

Christian Beyer, MD PhD- GermanyChristian 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.

[email protected]

Francesco Carubbi, MD PhD- ItalyFrancesco 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

of L’Aquila, Italy. During his training he completed a 14 months research fellowship at the Centre

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.

[email protected]

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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.

[email protected]

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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 on inflammatory rheumatic diseases, registers, and

musculoskeletal ultrasound. Tamas is a member of the EMEUNET Website Subgroup.

[email protected]

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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

Zurich. Her main areas of interest are systemic sclerosis and other connective tissue diseases.

She is the leader of the EMEUNET Country Liaisons Subgroup and the Country Liaison for

Romania.

[email protected]

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

rheumatology. He is the Country Liaison for EMEUNET in Austria and he is a member of the

EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup.

[email protected]

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

osteoarthritis, epidemiology and imaging. She is currently the leader of the EMEUNET Peer

Mentoring subgroup.

[email protected]

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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,

Germany. His major research interests include early rheumatoid arthritis and the role of T cells in

the pathogenesis of autoimmune arthritis. Jan is a member of the EMEUNET Newsletter

Subgroup.

[email protected]

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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.

[email protected]

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

arthritis. She is a member of the EMEUNET Education and Social Media Advisory Subgroups.

[email protected]

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

arthroscopy. He trained arthroscopy in Saint Vincent's University Hospital, University College of

Dublin. João is a member of the EMEUNET Newsletter and Education Subgroups.

[email protected]

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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

of the EMEUNET Visibility Subgroup.

[email protected]

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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.

[email protected]

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.

[email protected]

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

outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis at University College London, where she also completed her

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.

[email protected]

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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

of Bath. In 2009 he was awarded the Dando fellowship, jointly funded by the RSA and RCP.

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.

[email protected]

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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.

[email protected]

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

of EMEUNET Country Liaison Subgroup.

[email protected]

Mislav Radić, MD PhD- Croatia

Mislav is Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and he is currently working in the Division

of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology University Hospital Split, Croatia. His scientific and

clinical interests are systemic sclerosis, osteoarthritis, vasculitis, epidemiology and imaging

tools in rheumatology. Mislav is a member of the EMEUNET Newsletter Subgroup.

[email protected]

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Vasco Romão, MD- Portugal

Vasco is a Rheumatology Clinical and Research Fellow based at the Lisbon Academic Medical

Centre. Currently, he is a PhD applicant in the field of synovial pathobiology of rheumatoid

arthritis. He recently completed a 6 months fellowship at the Centre for Experimental Medicine &

Rheumatology, Queen Mary University of London, with the support of a EULAR Scientific Training

Bursary. He is the Portuguese Country Liaison for EMEUNET and a member of the EMEUNET

Social Media Subgroup.

[email protected]

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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

therapy. He is a Clinical Immunologist since 2014 and he is pursuing his PhD at the University of

Naples Federico II. Felice is a member of the EMEUNET Education and Visibility Subgroups.

[email protected]

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.

[email protected]

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.

[email protected]

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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

diseases. She is the Country Liaison for EMEUNET in Bulgaria and is a member of the

EMEUNET Education and Newsletter Subgroups.

[email protected]

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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.

[email protected]

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

UK. Currently she is a PhD student at Coimbra University. Her PhD thesis concern preclinical

arthritis. Her main research area focuses on rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis and

glucocorticoids. She is a member of the EMEUNET Education Subgroup.

[email protected]

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.

[email protected]

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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.

[email protected]

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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

of disease activity and biomarkers. He is currently in the final steps to obtain his PhD degree.

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.

[email protected]

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.

[email protected]

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

Denmark. She is the Danish Country Liaison and a member of the EMEUNET Visibility Subgroup.

[email protected]

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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.

[email protected]

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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.

[email protected]

Marlies van der Goes, MD PhD – The Netherlands

Marlies is rheumatologist in training at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, The

Netherlands. She obtained her PhD with research on glucocorticoids. She is a member of

EMEUNET Country Liaison Subgroup and is the Country Liaison for The Netherlands.

[email protected]

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.

[email protected]

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EDUCATION

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THE EULAR POSTGRADUATE COURSE

IN RHEUMATOLOGY

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)

o How to design a clinical trial in rheumatic diseases

o How to study adverse events of new therapies

o How to design a study to understand risk factors

o How to design a study to define critical molecular pathways in a rheumatic disease

And can sign up for these 2 workshops

o How to review an abstract

o How to write a paper

Next EULAR Postgraduate Course will take place in Prague 18-21 October 2015

Register NOW to save your place!http://www.eular.org/edu_course_postgraduate.cfm

-For the 2015 preliminary programme visit:

http://www.eular.org/myUploadData/files/PGC_2015_preliminary_programme.pdf

-To read a 2014 partecipant report:

http://www.eular.org/myUploadData/files/PGC%202014%20report%20Beyer_web.pdf

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EDUCATION

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THE EULAR REGISTERS AND OBSERVATIONAL

DRUG STUDIES (RODS)

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

results. The annual / biennial meeting will provide an opportunity for networking and development of

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:

o Experienced drug register researchers

o Early-career investigators

o Regulators and pharmaceutical companies

o Clinicians, health professionals, and patients

o Beyond European rheumatology: international rheumatology and other disease areas

Next EULAR RODS Meeting will take place in Prague 7-8 December 2015

Register NOW to save your place!http://www.eular.org/epidemiology_registers_observational_drug_studies_meeting.cfm

-For the 2015 preliminary programme visit:

http://www.eular.org/myUploadData/files/RODS_2015_preliminary%20programme%20v2.pdf

-To browse the presentations held during the previous RODS meeting visit:

http://www.eular.org/epidemiology_registers_observational_drug_studies_presentations_2013.cfm

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