Editorial Board


Editors-in-Chief

Ferdinand C Breedveld
Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Michael Weinblatt
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA, USA

Editors

Tom Huizinga
Professor, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Peter Nigrovic
Fellow, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA, USA

Eric Ruderman
Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University, School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

Hendrik Schulze-Koops
Professor, Department of Rheumatology, Medizinische Poliklinik – Innenstadt, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Case Study Editor

Cornelia F Allaart
Associate Professor, Department of rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Editorial Advisory Board

Steven B Abramson
Professor of Medicine and Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Carol M Black
Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

Gerd R Burmester
Professor of Medicine, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charite University Hospital, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Maxime Dougados
Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Cochin, Paris, France

Paul Emery
ACR Professor of Rheumatology, Academic Department of Musculoskeletal Disease, Department of Rheumatology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK

Daniel E Furst
Carl M Pearson Professor of Rheumatology, UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Mark Genovese
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA

Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont
Professor of Rheumatology, Inflammation Research Unit, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain

Joachim Kalden
Professor of Internal Medicine, Institute for Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Arthur Kavanaugh
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Center for Innovative Therapy, UCSD La Jolla, CA, USA

Edward Keystone
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, Director, Center for Advanced Therapeutics in Arthritis, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ont., Canada

Lars Klareskog
Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Vicente Rodriguez-Valverde
Professor of Medicine and Chief, Rheumatology Service, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Josef Smolen
Professor, 2nd Department of Medicine, Krankenhaus Lainz, Vienna, Austria

Désirée van der Heijde
Professor of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatic Diseases, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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Editorial Policy

International Journal of Advances in Rheumatology is an independent journal published by Remedica Medical Education and Publishing Ltd. Editorial control is the sole responsibility of the Editors-in-Chief. Prior to publication, all material submitted to the journal is subjected to rigorous review by the Editors-in-Chief and/or independent reviewers for suitability of scientific content, scientific accuracy, scientific quality, and conflict of interest.

Aims and Scope
International Journal of Advances in Rheumatology is designed to bring a critical analysis of the world rheumatology literature, written by clinicians, for clinicians, to an international, multidisciplinary audience. Our mission is to promote better understanding of rheumatological medicine across the global healthcare system by providing an active forum for the discussion of clinical and healthcare policy issues.

Leading Articles
These major review articles are chosen to reflect topical scientific, clinical and healthcare policy issues in rheumatology. All contributions undergo a strict editorial review process.

Case Studies
Experts provide comment and analysis on specific cases relating to the latest treatments for rheumatic disease management, detailing case histories, presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.

Clinical Reviews
The most important papers from the best of the international literature are systematically selected by an internationally recognized panel of experts. The Editors then prepare concise and critical analyses of each paper, and, most importantly, place the findings into clinical context.

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