PReS Capillaroscopy Nailfold Video (NFV) course

Professor Maurizio Cutolo (MC) is Professor of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Director of Research Laboratories, Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology and Postgraduate School of Rheumatology, University of Genoa, Italy. MC is former President of both the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) (2013–2015) and the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR-2015). He is Advisor of the EULAR Education Committee (EsOR). MC serves as Deputy-Chair of the European network on Rare and Complex Connective Tissue Disease (ReCONNET-ERN). MC is the chairman of the Education and Training Committee of RECONNET. He is also the founder and Chairman of the EULAR SG on “Neuroimmune Endocrinology on RMDs”, cochair of the EULAR SG on “Microcirculation in RMDs” and organizer of the EULAR live and on line courses on Capillaroscopy and Microcirculation. 
He is Senior Editor of Clin Exp Rheumatol and editorial board member of the Editorial Board of Ann Rheum Dis, RMDopen and other Journals. H index 123 (Google Scholar), 98 (Scopus).

Professor Vanessa Smith has been Head of Clinics at the Ghent University Hospital since 2011 and Associate Professor of Rheumatology at Ghent University since 2014. Professor Smith is a member of the steering committee of the European Reference Network on Rare and Complex Connective Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ERN- ReCONNET), and an executive board member of ERN- ReCONNET as coordinator of systemic sclerosis. Professor Smith was awarded the 2011 Belgian Cristina Pivetta prize for “Contribution to treatment strategies and diagnostic algorithms for patients with systemic sclerosis” and received a grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders for her research on capillaroscopy. She is Senior Clinical Investigator of the Research Foundation – Flanders, and is Chair of the EULAR study group on Microcirculation in Rheumatic diseases. She is an organising/scientific board member of the EULAR courses on capillaroscopy and chairs the EULAR network of training and research, Ghent centre for microcirculatory imaging. Professor Smith is Co-Editor of several books, as well as co-author of book chapters and several manuscripts on SSc/microcirculation. She is also on the editorial board of Rheumatology and the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Associate Professor Clare Pain is a Consultant in Pediatric Rheumatology at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Director of the Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre for Children (EATC4Children) where she leads the scleroderma work-stream. She has extensive experience of conducting research which is integrated within clinical care. Areas of expertise include scleroderma, lupus and Raynaud’s. She has led and published research in these areas. She is a founding member of PICS (the Pediatric International Consortium for Scleroderma), member of the EULAR Study Group on Microcirculation in Rheumatic Diseases and of the JSLE Global Task Force.

Dr Dieneke Schonenberg-Meinema is a Medical Specialist in Pediatric Rheumatology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases with a breadth of collaborative research outputs across these areas including leading projects on nailfold capillary patterns in childhood-onset SLE and healthy children. She has published extensively on nailfold capillaroscopy in children and was a co-author on the international study which standardized nailfold capillaroscopy in children with rheumatic disease. She is a member of the EULAR Study Group on Microcirculation in Rheumatic Diseases.