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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
Professor Marcos Renato de Assis, MD, PhD, Assis Medical School​​​​​​, São PauloBrazil
Professor Eduardo dos Santos Paiva, MD, PhD, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Associate Editors
Cleandro Albuquerque, MD, PhD, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Marcelo de Medeiros Pinheiro, MD, PhD, Rheumatology Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo/EPM, São Paulo, Brazil
Ana Cristina de Medeiros Ribeiro, MD, PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Murillo Dório Queiroz, MD, PhD, Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Rafael Mendonça da Silva Chakr, MD, PhD, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Penélope Esther Palominos, MD, PhD, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Lifeplus Litoral Norte, Xangri-lá, Brazil
Sandro Félix Perazzio, MD, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Carolina de Oliveira Rodrigues, MD, PhD, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Consulting Editors
Luís Eduardo Coelho Andrade, MD, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Simone Appenzeller, MD, PhD, University of Campinas, São PauloBrazil
Roberto Ezequiel Heymann, MD, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Paulo Louzada Junior, MD, PhD, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, Ribeirão PretoBrazil
Francisco Airton Castro Rocha, MD, PhD, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Ricardo Machado Xavier, MD, PhD, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Editorial Board
Jacob Ablin, MD, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
İlke Coşkun Benlidayi, Associate Professor, MD, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
Leslie Crofford, MD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TennesseeUSA
Abhijeet Danve, MBBS, MD, MHS, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Atul Deodhar, MD, MCRP, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Professor Dr. med. Thomas Dörner, Department of Medicine/Rheumatology and Clinical immunologyCharité Hospital, Berlin, Germany
Professor João Eurico Cabral da Fonseca, MD, Director of the University Clinic of Rheumatology and of the Institute of Clinical Semiotics of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Bruno Gualano, PE, PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Enrique Roberto Soriano Guppy, MD, MS, Instituto Universitário Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anamaria Jones, PT, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Adriana Maria Kakehasi, MD, PhD, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Arthur Kavanaugh, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Innovative Therapy (CIT), University of California San Diego, USA
Cristiane Kayser, MD, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Evandro Mendes Klumb, MD, PhD, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Iêda Maria Magalhães Laurindo, MD, PhD, Nove de Julho University, São Paulo, Brazil
Roger Abramino Levy, MD, PhD, GlaxoSmithKline, USA
Manuel Martínez-Lavín, MD, National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chavez, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Professor Marco Matucci-Cerinic, MD, PhD, FRCP, FBSRhon, FACR, IRCCS, Department of Rheumatology, Universiy Vita Salute San Raffele, Milano, Italy
Iain McInnes, MD, PhD, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
José Alexandre Mendonça, MD, PhD, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Lícia Maria Henrique da Mota, MD, PhD, University of Brasília, Brazil
Samira Myamoto, FT, PhD, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Elena Myasoedova, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Sandra Gofinet Pasoto, MD, PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Ivânio Alves Pereira, MD, PhD, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Fernando Perez-Ruiz, MD, PhD, Hospital Universitario Cruces, Baracaldo, Spain
Geraldo da Rocha Castelar Pinheiro, MD, PhD, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Percival Degrava Sampaio-Barros, MD, PhD, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Emília Inoue Sato, MD, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Professor Dr. med. Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Facharzt für Innere Medizin und Rheumatologie, Fachimmunologe, Universität München, Germany
Professor Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo, MD, PhD, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Clóvis Artur Almeida da Silva, MD, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
José António P. Da Silva, Coimbra Hospital and University Center, Portugal
Alexandre Wagner S Souza, MD, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Teresa Terreri, MD, PhD, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
George C. Tsokos, MD, Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Richard J. Wakefield, MD, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

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