RTA Podcasts

Prof Laure Gosse
Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Laure Gossec is Professor of Rheumatology at Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière and Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Prof Gossec serves on the Executive Committee of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) and is a founding member and past chairperson of the Emerging EULAR Network (EMEUNET). She also serves on the executive leadership committee of Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT), where she is chair of the patient stream.

Dr Joanna Kedra
Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière

Prof Douglas Veale
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland    

Douglas Veale is Professor of Medicine, Director of Translational Research and Consultant Rheumatologist at the Centre for Arthritis and Rheumatic Disease, St. Vincent’s University Hospital. He is also lead of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Centre of Excellence in Rheumatology based at St. Vincent’s University Hospital.

Prof Ernest Choy
Head of Rheumatology and Translational Research, Cardiff University School of Medicine 

Ernest Choy is Head of Rheumatology and Translational Research at the Institute of Infection and Immunity as well as the Director of the Cardiff Regional Experimental Arthritis Treatment and Evaluation Centre at Cardiff University School of Medicine. He is also an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at University Hospital of Wales and Clinical Lead of the Welsh Arthritis Research Network.

Dr Francesca Spinelli
Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Francesca Spinelli is an Assistant Professor of Rheumatology at Sapienza University of Rome. She is a member of the Italian Society of Rheumatology (SIR) and a steering committee member of Cardiovascular and Obesity and Rheumatic DISeases (CORDIS), a study group of the SIR. In 2016, she co-founded Reumatologhe Donne (ReDo; Italian Association of Women Rheumatologists).

Prof Laura Coates
Professor in Rheumatology at the University of Oxford

Prof Willem Lems
Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Willem Lems is a Professor of Rheumatology at Amsterdam University Medical Center, location VU University Medical Center. He is the Educational Officer of the Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center (ARC), and a member of both the scientific committee of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS).

Prof Janet Pope
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Janet Pope is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at Western University, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. She is also the Division Head in Rheumatology at St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario. Dr Pope has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles, 300 abstracts and several Cochrane meta-analysis reviews, as well as mentored over 100 students and trainees.

Prof Taylor
University of Oxford, UK

He is Professor of Musculoskeletal Science at University of Oxford. He has a lot of experience in designing and conducting clinical trials and has also shown great leadership in the international studies of biologics and small molecules, including currently approved JAK inhibitors and other, for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. His interest is based on patient and physician standpoints and he has conducted a number of experimental projects that could directly contribute to our daily clinical practice.

Prof Kunihiro Yamaoka
Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

Kunihiro Yamaoka is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases at Kitasato University. His major interest is in translational research, currently investigating the possibility of using JAK inhibitors in non-RA diseases and novel pathways that relate to the disease activity of RA.