The PReS Global Musculoskeletal (MSK) Health Working Party was created with the aim to enable greater engagement and participation within our global paediatric rheumatology community and increase the collaborative networks already established of health professionals and investigators from different remote geographic areas of the world in order to optimize research opportunities with funding for global health topics. The key themes of the working party are awareness raising and advocacy, policy suggestions, education and training, workforce capacity, clinical care, and research to improve MSK health for children and young people globally.
General Aims
- To serve as a platform to enable collaborative projects, researcher development and support grant applications
- Work closely with all Working Parties and Health Professionals of PReS (HP-PReS) Committee, Network for Children with Arthritis (ENCA), and EMERGE
- Work closely with the PReS Global Research Task Force and with the education and clinical affairs pillars of the other Working Parties for combined actions.
- To increase collaborations with paediatric orthopaedic and paediatric MSK allied health professionals and networks around the world
Aims per pillar
Research pillar:
· To focus on research to improve MSK health for children and young people globally and optimize research opportunities with funding for global health topics
Education pillar:
To promote a broad range of educational activities closely aligned to PMM to reach wider audiences, especially those in low-resource settings.
Clinical affairs pillar:
- To raise awareness, policy suggestions, and promote the workforce and clinical care capacity.
Number of members: 58 members
Core team composition:
- Chair: Claudia Saad-Magalhães, UNESP- Sao Paulo State University (Brazil) (elected on 29th September 2023)
- Secretary: Filipa Oliveira Ramos, Paediatric Rheumatology Unit, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) (elected on 29th September 2023)
- Research pillar leads: Brian Feldman, Rheumatology Department, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto (Canada) and Laura Lewandowski, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH (USA)
- Clinical affairs pillar leads: Yosef Uziel, Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba (Israel), Mehmet Yildiz (Turkey) and Anand Rao (India)
- Education/training pillar lead: Giorgia Martini, Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Department of Woman and Child Health, University of Padova(Italy)
- EMERGE representative: Karla Vanessa (Nicaragua), Jessica Perfetto (USA) and Yulia Vyzhga (Ukraine)
- Allied Health Professional Representative: Nilay Arman
- Parent/patient representative: Luciana Peixoto (Brasil)
Meetings
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1 PRES Webinar (June 2025) with collaboration of Tin Soldiers 1 Hybrid meeting in Helsink (2025) and 1 Hybrid meeting planned for Belgrade (2026)
Educational Activities
- PReS basic course 2025: Acapulco-Mexico on 13 -15th February 2025 organised by Fernando Garcia Rodrigues, WP and EMERGE member.
- PMM international and pGALS application transferred to PRES and directed by Chris Scott
New project collaboration:
- The contents of a session during Belgrade Congress was proposed by the WP and accepted by the Scientific Council for a main Congress session. It is about the challenges of JDM management around the world.
- Collaboration on topics revision for parents and patients website, updated by PReSTAR
Contacts:
Chair: Claudia Saad-Magalhães - [email protected]
Secretary Filipa Oliveira Ramos - [email protected]
