Editorial Board
RMD Open Editors and Associate Editors have agreed and adhere to the BMJ Editor Roles and Responsibilities guidelines; including our Editor policy on competing interests.
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Bernard Combe, MD, PhD
CHU Lapeyronie
Montpellier, France
b-combe@chu-montpellier.fr
orcid.org/0000-0003-4002-1861
Competing interests
Area of Expertise: Rheumatology
Associate Editors
Dr Daniel Aletaha, MD, MSc
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
orcid.org/0000-0003-2108-0030
Area of Expertise: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Epidemiology, Disease Activity, DMARDs (synthetic), DMARDs (biologic)
Dr Ida Haugen, PhD
Diakonhjemmet Hospital
Oslo, Norway
orcid.org/0000-0001-7810-2216
Area of Expertise: Osteoarthritis Clinical aspects, Osteoarthritis Treatments/Clinical trials, Osteoarthritis Imaging,
Dr Peggy Jacques
Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium
orcid.org/0000-0001-9227-257X
Area of Expertise: RA, SpA, inflammation, mechanical stress, translational
Professor Xavier Mariette, PhD
Hôpital de Bicêtre
Bicêtre, France
Area 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
Area 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
Area 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
Area of Expertise: Infectious diseases, drug safety, pharmacovigilance, epidemiology
Methodological and Statistical Advisor
Stian Lydersen
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
Guro F. Giskeødegård
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
Social Media Advisors
Alessia Alunno
University of Perugia
Perugia, Italy
Mary Canavan
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Meghna Jani
The University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Peter Korsten
University Medical Center Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Caroline Ospelt
University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Elena Nikiphorou
Academic Rheumatology Department, King’s College London
London, UK
Christophe Richez
Hospital Pellegrin Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
Javier RodrÃguez Carrio
Universidad de Oviedo, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias
Oviedo, Spain
Paul Studenic
Medical University Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Advisory Committee
Francis Berenbaum
Hôpital Saint Antoine
Paris, France
Hans Bijlsma
UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Marie-Christophe Boissier
Avicenne Teaching Hospital
Paris, France
Dimitrios Boumpas
University of Crete
Heraklion, Greece
Gerd Burmester
Charite University Hospital
Berlin, Germany
Maurizio Cutolo
University of Genova
Genova, Italy
Jose da Silva
Hospitais da Universidade Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal
Maxime Dougados
Hôpital Cochin
Paris, France
Paul Emery
University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
Roy Fleischmann
University of Texas
Dallas, USA
Jonathan Kay
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, USA
Lars Klareskog
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Tore Kvien
Diakonhjemmet Hospital
Oslo, Norway
Rik Lories
Universitaire Ziekenhuizen
Leuven, Belgium
Ingrid Lundberg
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Marco Mattuci Cerinic
University of Florence
Florence, Italy
Pierre Miossec
University of Lyon
Lyon, France
Iain McInnes
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, UK
Ted Pincus
NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases
New York, USA
Josef Smolen
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Désirée van der Heijde
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
Piet van Riel
Radboud University Nijmegen
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ronald van Vollenhoven
Academic Medical Center and VU University Medical Centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Editorial Board
Rieke Alten
Schlosspark-Klinik
Berlin, Germany
Xenofon Baraliakos
Ruhr-University Bochum
Herne, Germany
George Bertsias
University of Crete
Heraklion, Greece
Maya Buch
University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
Ruben Burgos-Vargas
Hospital General de Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico
Vivian Bykerk
The Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, USA
Oliver Distler
Univerity Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switerland
Patrick DurezÂ
Universite de Louvain
Brussels, Belgium
Bruno Fautrel
Pitié-Salpétriêre Hospital
Paris, France
Gianfranco Ferraccioli
Catholic University
Rome, Italy
Fernando Figueroa
Universidad de los Andes
Santiago, Chile
Axel Finckh
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
João Fonseca
University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
Cem Gabay
CHU
Geneva, Switzerland
Juan Gomez-Reino
Hospital Clinico Universitario
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Najia Hajaj-Hassouni
Université Mohammed V Souissi
Sale, Morocco
Boulos Haraoui
University of Montreal
Montreal, Canada
Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont
Fundacion Jimenez Diaz
Madrid, Spain
Frederic Houssiau
Université Catholique de Louvain
Brussels, Belgium
Tom Huizinga
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
John Isaacs
Institute of Cellular Medicine & Newcastle University
Newcastle, UK
Ingvild Kjeken
Diakonhjemmet Hospital
Oslo, Norway
Margreet Kloppenburg
Leiden University Medical
Leiden, The Netherlands
Joel Kremer
Albany Medical College
New York, USA
Jon Lampa
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
Robert Landewé
Academic Medical Centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Willems Lems
VU University Medical Centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pedro Machado
University College London
London, UK
Walter Maksymowych
University of Alberta
Alberta, Canada
Neil McHugh
Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases
Bath, UK
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
Christina Helging Opava
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Mikkel Ostergaard
Cophenhagen Centre for Arthritis Research
Copenhagen, Denmark
Janet Pope
Western University
London, Canada
Leonardo Punzi
Universitá di Padova
Padova, Italy
Sofia Ramiro
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Angello Ravelli
Istituto G. Gaslini
Genova, Italy
Karim Raza
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Pascal Richette
Hopital Lariboisiere
Paris, France
Christian Roux
Hopital de l’Archet
Nice, France
Martin Rudwaleit
Charite University
Berlin, Germany
Alain Saraux
CHU Brest
Brest, France
Carlo Salvarani
Azienda Ospedaliera ASMN
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Georg Schett
Universitätsklinikum
Erlangen, Erlangen Germany
Tuulikki Sokka
Jyväskylä Central Hospital
Jyväskylä, Finland
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
Jiri Vencovsky
Institute of Rheumatology
Prague, Czech Republic
Douglas Veale
UCD Conway
Conway, Ireland
Rene Westhovens
UZ Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Zhang Xuan
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Beijing, China
Publishing Team
Publishing Executive:Â Sandra Townsend
Associate Publisher: Lindsey Fountain
Publisher: Christiane Notarmarco