Steering Committee

Current Steering Committee:

Philip Robinson, MBChB, PhD, FRACP, MAICD (@philipcrobinson)
Chair, Governance, Policy
Dr. Philip Robinson is a clinical and academic rheumatologist at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, in Queensland, Australia and associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Queensland.

Jinoos Yazdany, M.D., MPH (@JYazdanyMD)
Vice-Chair, Real-world Data Infrastructure, Registry and IRB/Ethics
Dr. Jinoos Yazdany is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) and the Alice Betts Endowed Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She practices rheumatology at ZSFG and co-directs the Lupus Clinic at UCSF Health.

Paul Sufka, M.D. (@psufka)
Technology and Marketing Lead
Dr. Paul Sufka is department chair and practices rheumatology with HealthPartners medical group in St. Paul, MN. He is also the social media editor for Arthritis & Rheumatology, Arthritis Care & Research, and ACR Open Rheumatology.

Rebecca Grainger, MBChB (Dstn), BMedSci (Dstn) MIsntD, CHIA, FRACP, FACHI, PhD (@Drbeckyg)
Literature Review Co-Lead
Dr. Rebecca Grainger is a clinical and academic rheumatologist in New Zealand, working in public hospital practice [Hutt VAlled DHB]. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Zach Wallace, M.D., MSc (@zach_wallace_md)
Literature Review Co-Lead
Dr. Zachary Wallace is a rheumatologist and researcher in the Rheumatology Unit and Clinical Epidemiology Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Suleman Bhana, M.D., FACR (@DrBhana)
Organizational Liaison and Media
Dr. Suleman Bhana is a clinical Rheumatologist in a multi-specialty group private practice in New York. He is chair of the Communications and Marketing Committee of the American College of Rheumatology, a co-found of the #RheumJC twitter based journal club, and former co-host of The Rheumatology Podcast.

Dr. Emily Sirotich (@emilysirotich)
Patient Engagement Co-Lead
Emily Sirotich is a patient partner, board member of the Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, and PhD in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University.

Jean Liew, M. D, (@rheum_cat)
Administrative Lead
Dr. Jean Liew is a rheumatologist and clinical researcher at Boston University.

Jonathan Hausmann, M.D. (@hausmannMD)
Patient Registries Collaboration Lead
Jonathan S. Hausmann is a pediatric and adult rheumatologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School.

Pedro Machado, M.D. (@pedrommcmachado)
European Lead
Dr. Pedro Machado is an Associate Professor & Consultant Rheumatologist at University College London (UCL). He leads a myositis clinic at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and an axial spondyloarthritis clinic at Northwick Park Hospital. He is the Chair of the EULAR Standing Committee on Epidemiology and Health Services Research (SCEHSR) and a member of the EULAR Executive Committee.

Wendy Costello (@wendycostello2)
Patient Engagement Co-Lead

Wendy Costello is a mum to Niamh who was diagnosed at the age of 3 with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. She is the co-founder and chairperson of the Irish Children’s Arthritis Network (iCAN) in 2013, which is a volunteer charity that supports children and young people living with paediatric rheumatic diseases. She is also the current Chair of the European Network of Children with Arthritis (ENCA), sits on the board of the Paediatric Rheumatology European Society council, and is chair of the steering committee of the University College Dublin Centre of Arthritis Research.