Editorial Board

Professor Gerd Burmester, MD, PhD Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin, Germany info.rmdopen@bmj.com orcid.org/0000-0001-7518-1131 Declaration of Interests, see here

Professor Bernard Combe, MD, PhD CHU Lapeyronie Montpellier, France orcid.org/0000-0003-4002-1861

Dr Daniel Aletaha, MD, MSc Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria orcid.org/0000-0003-2108-0030 Areas of Expertise: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Epidemiology, Disease Activity, DMARDs (synthetic), DMARDs (biologic) Dr Laura Coates, MBChB, MRCP, PhD Oxford University Oxford, UK orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-663X Areas of Expertise: Psoriatic arthritis, Spondyloarthritides, Outcome measures Dr Ida Haugen, PhD Diakonhjemmet Hospital Oslo, Norway orcid.org/0000-0001-7810-2216 Areas of Expertise: Osteoarthritis Clinical aspects, Osteoarthritis Treatments/Clinical trials, Osteoarthritis Imaging Dr Rachel Knevel, PhD Leiden University Medical Center Leiden, Netherlands orcid.org/0000-0002-7494-3023 Areas of Expertise: Translational data science, Pattern recognition, Genetics, eHealth Professor Dr Gerhard Krönke, MHBA Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany orcid.org/0000-0002-7566-4325 Areas of Expertise: Inflammatory autoimmune diseases

Professor Xavier Mariette, PhD Hôpital de Bicêtre Bicêtre, France Areas of Expertise: Sjogren’s syndrome, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, biological therapy, autoimmunity and lymphoma orcid.org/0000-0002-4244-5417 Dr Caroline Ospelt, PhD University Hospital Zurich Zurich, Switzerland orcid.org/0000-0002-9151-4650 Areas of Expertise: Synovial fibroblasts, Epigenetics, Non-coding RNA, Innate immunity, Rheumatoid arthritis Professor Annette van der Helm-van Mil, PhD Leiden University Medical Centre Leiden, The Netherlands orcid.org/0000-0001-8572-1437 Areas of Expertise: Rheumatoid arthritis, early arthritis, clinically suspect arthralgia, imaging, genetics, serology, epidemiology Dr Kevin Winthrop, MD, MPH Oregon Health Sciences University Oregon, USA orcid.org/0000-0002-3892-6947 Areas of Expertise: Infectious diseases, drug safety, pharmacovigilance, epidemiology

Stian Lydersen NTNU Trondheim, Norway

Guro F. Giskeødegård NTNU Trondheim, Norway

Hans Bijlsma UMC Utrecht Utrecht, The Netherlands

Alessia Alunno University of L’Aquila L’Aquila, Italy Laura Andreoli University of Brescia Brescia, Italy Peter Korsten University Medical Center Göttingen Göttingen, Germany Caroline Ospelt University Hospital Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

Fabian Proft Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin Berlin, Germany Javier Rodríguez Carrio Universidad de Oviedo, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias Oviedo, Spain Paul Studenic Medical University Vienna Vienna, Austria Nelly Ziade Saint-Joseph University and Hotel-Dieu de France Beirut, Lebanon

Rieke Alten Schlosspark-Klinik Berlin, Germany Xenofon Baraliakos Ruhr-University Bochum Herne, Germany Francis Berenbaum Hôpital Saint Antoine Paris, France George Bertsias University of Crete Heraklion, Greece Dimitrios Boumpas University of Crete Heraklion, Greece Maya Buch University of Manchester Manchester, UK Ruben Burgos-Vargas Hospital General de Mexico Mexico City, Mexico Maurizio Cutolo University of Genova Genova, Italy Oliver Distler Univerity Hospital Zurich Zurich, Switerland Maxime Dougados Hôpital Cochin Paris, France Patrick Durez  Universite de Louvain Brussels, Belgium Paul Emery University of Leeds Leeds, UK Bruno Fautrel Pitié-Salpétriêre Hospital Paris, France Gianfranco Ferraccioli Catholic University Rome, Italy Axel Finckh University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland Roy Fleischmann University of Texas Dallas, USA João Fonseca University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal Roberto Giacomelli University of Rome Rome, Italy Najia Hajaj-Hassouni Université Mohammed V Souissi Sale, Morocco Boulos Haraoui University of Montreal Montreal, Canada Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont Fundacion Jimenez Diaz Madrid, Spain Anna Maria Hoffman-Vold University of Oslo Oslo, Norway Frederic Houssiau Université Catholique de Louvain Brussels, Belgium John Isaacs Institute of Cellular Medicine & Newcastle University Newcastle, UK Margreet Kloppenburg Leiden University Medical Leiden, The Netherlands Joel Kremer Albany Medical College New York, USA Masataka Kuwana Nippon Medical School Tokyo, Japan Tore Kvien Diakonhjemmet Hospital Oslo, Norway Robert Landewé Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rik Lories Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Belgium Ingrid Lundberg Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden Pedro Machado University College London London, UK

Walter Maksymowych University of Alberta Alberta, Canada Iain McInnes University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK Kirsten Minden Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin, Germany Jacques Morel CHU Lapeyronie Montpellier, France Ulf Muller-Ladner Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany Eduardo Mysler Organización Médica de Investigación Buenos Aires, Argentina Peter Nash Rheumatology Research Unit Queensland, Australia Mikkel Ostergaard Cophenhagen Centre for Arthritis Research Copenhagen, Denmark Janet Pope Western University London, Canada Leonardo Punzi Universitá di Padova Padova, Italy Sofia Ramiro Leiden University Medical Center Leiden, The Netherlands Angello Ravelli Istituto G. Gaslini Genova, Italy Karim Raza University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK Paul L. Romain Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, USA Christian Roux Hopital de l’Archet Nice, France Martin Rudwaleit University of Bielefeld Bielefeld, Germany Alain Saraux CHU Brest Brest, France Carlo Salvarani Azienda Ospedaliera ASMN Reggio Emilia, Italy Georg Schett Universitätsklinikum Erlangen Erlangen, Germany Ye Shuang Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China Josef Smolen University of Vienna Vienna, Austria Tuulikki Sokka Jyväskylä Central Hospital Jyväskylä, Finland Anushka Soni University of Oxford Oxford, UK Tanja Stamm Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria Zoltan Szekanecz University of Debrecen Medical Center Debrecen, Hungary Yoshiya Tanaka University of Occupational and Environmental Health Kitakyushu, Japan Peter Taylor University of Oxford Oxford, UK Till Uhlig Diakonhjemmet Hospital Oslo, Norway Désirée van der Heijde Leiden University Medical Center Leiden, The Netherlands Douglas Veale UCD Conway Conway, Ireland Jiri Vencovsky Institute of Rheumatology Prague, Czech Republic Rene Westhovens UZ Leuven Leuven, Belgium Xuan Zhang Peking Union Medical College Hospital Beijing, China

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