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
Bernard Combe
CHU Lapeyronie
Montpellier, France
orcid.org/0000-0003-4002-1861
Declaration of Interests, see here
Associate Editors
Laura Coates
Oxford University
Oxford, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-663X
Areas of Expertise: Psoriatic arthritis, Spondyloarthritides, Outcome measures
Divi Cornec
CHU Brest
Brest, France
orcid.org/0000-0002-9159-702X
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune diseases, immunology
Ida Haugen
Diakonhjemmet Hospital
Oslo, Norway
orcid.org/0000-0001-7810-2216
Areas of Expertise: Osteoarthritis Clinical aspects, Osteoarthritis Treatments/Clinical trials, Osteoarthritis Imaging
Caroline Ospelt
University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
orcid.org/0000-0002-9151-4650
Areas of Expertise: Synovial fibroblasts, Epigenetics, Non-coding RNA, Innate immunity, Rheumatoid arthritis
Alexandre Sepriano
CHRC Campus Nova Medical School
Lisbon, Portugal
orcid.org/0000-0003-1954-0229
Areas of Expertise: Spondyloarthritis, Epidemiology, Statistics
Annette van der Helm-van Mil
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
Kevin Winthrop
Oregon Health Sciences University
Oregon, USA
orcid.org/0000-0002-3892-6947
Areas of Expertise: Infectious diseases, drug safety, pharmacovigilance, epidemiology
Methodological and Statistical Advisors
Stian Lydersen
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
Emilia Gvozdenovic
DESiRE Consulting
Mechelen, Belgium
Ethical and Strategic Advisor
Hans Bijlsma
UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Social Media Editors
Shinji Izuka
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Cristiana Sieiro Santos
Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León
León, Spain
Vincenzo Venerito
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari, Italy
Editorial Board
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
Christopher Edwards
NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility
Southampton, UK
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
Jiri Vencovsky
Institute of Rheumatology
Prague, Czech Republic
Rene Westhovens
UZ Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Xuan Zhang
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Beijing, China
Publishing Team
Publishing Executive: Caitlin Alder
Senior Publisher: Lindsey Fountain
Head of Portfolio: Christiane Notarmarco