EULAR MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARDS 2021: PROFESSOR MAXIME DOUGADOS AND PROFESSOR JOSEF SMOLEN NAMED RECIPIENTS

He has been the head of the department of Rheumatology at Cochin Hospital in Paris from 1995 to 2018, he is professor of rheumatology at the University of Paris. [...] He has been involved in the field of osteoarthritis and thereafter in the field of rheumatoid arthritis and currently mainly in the field of spondyloarthritis He has published more than 1000 articles and he is a member of the editorial board of several journals such as Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. [...] Josef Smolen, Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, is professor of Internal Medicine and chairman of the Division of Rheumatology and Department of Medicine 3 at the Medical University of Vienna. [...] EULAR Page 2 of 2 PRESS RELEASE Served as president of the EULAR from 2003–2005, as president of the Austrian Society of Rheumatology from 2005–2007 and as president of the Austrian Society of Immunology 2007– 2009. [...] The aim of EULAR is to reduce the burden of RMDs on the individual and society and to improve the treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of RMDs.