Daniel Aletaha is Chair of Rheumatology and Head of the Division of Rheumatology at the Medical University of Vienna. Dr. Aletaha has received academic degrees from the Medical University in Vienna, Duke University and Danube University, and had spent over two years at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a dedicated scientist with broad interests in outcomes research, clinical trials, and translational research in inflammatory rheumatic diseases. He is author on more than 260 publications, and serves on the Editorial Board of several rheumatology specialty journals.
Daniel Aletaha has been involved in several International Task Forces, including EULAR Management Guidelines for RA and PSA, and the Treat-to-Target recommendations, and was lead author of the 2010 Classification Criteria for RA. He has served many years in the EULAR Counsil and is currently president-elect of EULAR.

Daniel Aletaha is Chair of Rheumatology and Head of the Division of Rheumatology at the Medical University of Vienna. Dr. Aletaha has received academic degrees from the Medical University in Vienna, Duke University and Danube University, and had spent over two years at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a dedicated scientist with broad interests in outcomes research, clinical trials, and translational research in inflammatory rheumatic diseases. He is author on more than 260 publications, and serves on the Editorial Board of several rheumatology specialty journals.
Daniel Aletaha has been involved in several International Task Forces, including EULAR Management Guidelines for RA and PSA, and the Treat-to-Target recommendations, and was lead author of the 2010 Classification Criteria for RA. He has served many years in the EULAR Counsil and is currently president-elect of EULAR.

Laurent ARNAUD (MD, PhD) is full Professor of Rheumatology at Strasbourg University (Unistra) & Academic Hospitals, France. His main clinical interests focus on the care of patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). He is leading a research group focusing on innovative strategies to study the epidemiology of autoimmune diseases, with a particular interest for the use of novel diagnostic and therapeutic digital strategies based on big data and Artificial Intelligence. With his team at the French National Reference Center for Rare Autoimmune Diseases of Strasbourg (CRMR RESO), he has contributed to more than 200 research projects in the field of rare diseases. Professor Arnaud is the President-Elect of the European Lupus Society (SLEuro) and Disease Coordinator for Lupus and relapsing polychondritis of the European Reference Network for rare diseases ReCONNET. He is the curator of a twitter account (@Lupusreference) about lupus education, followed by more than 11.5k people.

Chief of Department, Rheumatology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Medical Specialist in Rheumatology
Rheumatologist at the Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá in Bogotá, Colombia.
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad El Bosque and Militar Nueva Granada, Bogota, Colombia.
Coordinator of the Study Group of Axial Spondyloarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis of PANLAR.
Member of the Governing Committee of PANLAR Joven (Young PANLAR).
Active member of the ASAS and GRAPPA groups.

Chairman and Principal Investigator of the research group, Epidemiology, Genetics and Arteriosclerosis in Systemic Inflammatory Diseases, belonging to the IDIVAL of the same Hospital
Responsible for the CSUR (Centres, Services and Reference Units) of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases of the Spanish National Health System.
PhD. Director of several PhD.
Author of numerous conferences, conference communications and book chapters on different diseases, especially inflammatory

Full Professor of Rheumatology of the Medical School of the University of Sao Paulo
Responsible for the Antiphospholipid Syndrome Amb

Children’s Rheumatologist
Head of children’s rheumatology service
Htal de Niños bs As argentina
Active member of panlar pediatrics group

Specialist in Rheumatology with sub-specialty in Rheumatology Ultrasound and Master in Clinical Research at the Politecnica delle Marche University, Ancona Italy. He has a PhD in Biological and Health Sciences.
He is Director of the CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN MUSCULOESKELETAL AND RHEUMATIC DISEASES in Mexico City.
He was leader of the Ultrasound Study Group and is current coordinator of the Capillaroscopy group of PANLAR; He is professor of the EULAR/OMERACT Ultrasound group and Member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology with Senior level.
His research areas are focused on the clinical application of ultrasound and capillaroscopy in the early diagnosis, monitoring and prognosis of autoimmune, inflammatory and chronic diseases, as well as their application beyond the musculoskeletal.

Professor Dennis McGonagle is Section Head of Experimental Rheumatology in the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic & Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Leeds in Leeds, UK. He graduated from University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland, with a first-class honour in Medicine , and completed his clinical training and PhD in Leeds.
Through his clinical research, Professor McGonagle has elucidated the pathogenesis of seronegative inflammatory diseases and defined the central role of the enthesis in joint pathology, including the cytokine-mediated enthesitis theory of synovitis in seronegative spondyloarthropathies in 1998. He runs clinics in immune-mediated diseases and a joint autoinflammatory network (with Dr Sinisa Savic) and has developed the modern immunological disease-continuum classification of inflammation against self. Professor McGonagle’s group has defined normal human enthesis innate and adaptive immunity, including -T cells and conventional T cells in the human enthesis. His other interest is the use of native joint resident mesenchymal stem cells for osteoarthritis therapy .
Professor McGonagle has served on the editorial boards of Arthritis & Rheumatology and Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR), Chair and Co-Chair of two EULAR task forces and a member of the UK Medical Research Council Population and Systems Medicine Board (MRC PSMB). Professor McGonagle has won international prizes for his work, including the Verna Wright Lecture (2018), the Pemberton Lecture Award from the Philadelphia Rheumatism Society (2018), and the Royal Academy of Medicine (Bioengineering) Medal (2019).

Professor of the Posgraduation Program in Medical Sciences and Molecular Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brasilia

Director of the medical research organization OMI (Organizacion Medica de Investigacion) – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Member of the American College of Rheumatology

Eduardo S. Paiva, MD, PhD, FACR
Professor, Rheumatology.
Chief, Fibromyalgia clinic, Hospital de Clinicas – Universidade Federal do Parana

Professor Doctor Universidade Sul de Santa Catarina-UNISUL
Head of the Rheumatology Service – University Hospital – Federal University of Santa Catarina
Member of the rheumatoid arthritis commission of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology
Scientific Director of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology

Head, of the Grupo Oroño, Regional Center for Autoimmune and Rheumatic Diseases (GO-CREAR) and Department of Rheumatology, Instituto Cardiovascular de Rosario, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. His clinical interests focused on systemic rheumatic disease, particularly systemic lupus erythematosus. He is the main coordinator for the Latin American Group for the Study of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (GLADEL), and he is co-leader for the Latin American Group for the Study of Rheumatic Diseases in Indigenous People (GLADERPO).
Dr Pons-Estel is the chair of the Lupus Study Group of PANLAR; full member of the steering committee of Lupus Academy, Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC), and DORIS group. He was distinguished with the Pan American Spirit award; Master of PANLAR, Master of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), Master of the Argentine Society of Rheumatology, and more recently as Gold Medal Aníbal Ruiz Moreno from PANLAR.

Professor of Medicine at the Un. Federal of Paraná
Former President of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology 2000-2002
Former President of ABRASSO 2013-2014
Director of the Center for Studies in Innovative Therapies since 1997

Interim Director, Division of Rheumatology, Brown Medicine
Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Providence Veteran Affairs Medical Center
Director, Rheumatology Research and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
Associate Rheumatology Fellowship Program Director
Co-Director of the Lifespan Skin and Musculoskeletal (SAM) Center
Assistant Professor in Medicine and Dermatology
The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University

Assistant Rheumatologist and Chairman of the Systemic Sclerosis Outpatient Clinic, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil
Past President of the Committees of Systemic Sclerosis and Spondyloarthritis – Brazilian Society of Rheumatology.
Past President of the Systemic Sclerosis Study Group – PANLAR
National Coordinator of the Brazilian Registry of Spondyloarthritis (2006-2020)
Chairman – Rheumatology Center – Hospital Sírio-Libanês – São Paulo – SP

Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Affiliate professor of Universidade Federal de São Paulo – Escola Paulista de Medicina
Head of the Visculitis Committee of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology

Physician CES University Medellin Colombia
Internist university of Antioquia
Rheumatology National University of Colombia
PhD emphasis Immunology University of Antioquia
Professor Rheumatology University of Antioquia and Group of Cellular Immunology and Immunogenetics University of Antioquia
Colciencias Researcher
Group A1 excellence

Dr. Von Feldt is a is Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut and her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She completed her fellowship in rheumatology and also received a Masters of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Von Feldt devoted considerable time to educational activities at the Perelman School of Medicine. She has published extensively, and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology and has served as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous other publications.
Dr. Von Feldt is past president of the American College of Rheumatology (2015-2016). She served on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) as well as the ABIM Council and was Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Rheumatology from 2010-2014. She was secretary general of the International League of Associations of Rheumatology (ILAR) from 2005-2007 and treasurer of the Pan American League of Associations of Rheumatology (PANLAR) from 2010-2014.

Full Professor of Rheumatology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Coordinator of the Autoimmune Diseases Laboratory, Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
President of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology 2020-2022
PhD in Immunology, Shimane University, Japan