14th International Conference on
Arthritis and Rheumatology

Helge Einar Lundberg born 1966 in Norway, MD Specialist in General practice and Sports medicine. Attended The Medical Faculty, Oslo University 1985-1991, and has since then a 30 years’ experience in general Practice and has been working with cross-country skiers as a doctor for ski- teams. From 2018 he has been engaged by Professor Stig Larsen (Professor of Clinical Research Methodology and Statistics) Norwegian University of Life Sciences/ Meddoc AS to conduct the clinical studies om Jarlsberg Cheese. Dr Larsen is his advisor in this project along with Professor Helge Holo (biochemistry, Norwegian School of Life Sciences). He is now applying for the PhD programme at Norwegian School of Sports Sciences with Professor Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen and Professor Larsen as advisors. From September 2022, he also works as Medical Director at Meddoc Research AS.

Luca Roncati, Italian pathologist, physician-scientist, anti-cancer patent inventor, academic editor, medical lecturer, and award-winning author with more than 250 publications to his credit, specialized in gynecologic oncology, pediatric pathology, hematopathology and soft tissue tumors, eponym of Roncati-Manenti triad, describer of T rex lymphoma, pioneering researcher in COVID-19, leading researcher in nanopathology, forensics expert and adjunct professor of anatomical pathology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy).

Aquiles Martinez, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in treating knee and hip injuries with extensive experience in adult reconstruction of the hip and knee, including primary and revision joint replacements and sports injuries related to the knee. Professor and university researcher.

After completing his medical degree at the University of Oxford, Shanil undertook a foundation training post in Stevenage, followed by a clinical fellowship in Orthopaedics under Professor Haddad. Currently he is undergoing surgical training in Trauma and Orthopaedics.

Yehuda Shoenfeld is the founder and head of the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, at the Sheba Medical Center, which is affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, in Israel. Professor Shoenfeld is also the Incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases at Tel-Aviv University. Professor Shoenfeld’s clinical and scientific works focus on autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, and he has published more than 2230 papers in journals such as New Eng J Med, Nature, Lancet, Proc Nat Acad Scie, J Clin Invest, J Immunol, Blood, FASEB, J Exp Med, Circulation, Cancer and others. His articles have had over 130,000 citations. (H index 130) He has written more than 350 chapters in books, and has authored and edited 35 books, some of which became cornerstones in science and clinical practice, such as "The Mosaic of Autoimmunity", "Infections and Autoimmunity" and the textbook "Autoantibodies", "Diagnostic criteria of autoimmune diseases ", Covid, Autoimmunity and Post covid" all of which were published by Elsevier and sold thousands of copies. Professor Shoenfeld is on the editorial boards of 43 journals in the field of rheumatology and autoimmunity and is the founder and the editor of the IMAJ (Israel Medical Association Journal) the representative journal of science and medicine in the English language in Israel, and also is the founder and Editor of Autoimmunity Reviews (Elsevier) (Impact factor 17.3) and co-Editor of the Journal of Autoimmunity (Impact factor 13,3). For the past twenty years, Yehuda has been the Editor of “Harefuah” – The Israel journal in medicine (Hebrew). Professor Shoenfeld received the EULAR prize in 2005, in Vienna, Austria: "The infectious etiology of the anti-phospholipid syndrome", and received a gold medal from the Slovak Society of Physicians for his contribution to Israel – Slovakia collaboration (March 2006). He is also an honorary member of the Hungarian Association of Rheumatology and the Royal Society of Physicians (UK). At UC Davis, USA, Professor Shoenfeld received the Nelson's Prize for Humanity and Science in 2008. In 2009 he was honored as Doctoris Honoris Causa, from Debrecen University (Hungary), and since 2009 he is a honorary member of the Slovenian National Academy of Sciences. He was recently awarded a Life Contribution Prize in Internal Medicine in Israel, 2012, and the ACR Master Award in 2013. In 2019 YS was elected to the Israeli Academy of Sciences. Professor Shoenfeld has educated a long list of students >55 becoming Professors and heads of departments and institutes.

Dr. Camarata, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in the treatment of knee and hip injuries with extensive experience in adult reconstruction of the hip and knee, including primary and revision joint replacements. As an expert in orthopedic surgery, he serves as a proctor and product design consultant for various medical device organizations. Maintaining his patient’s ability to safely participate in sports at professional, school and recreational levels at all ages is one of his primary goals. He provides treatment and preventive care for many orthopedic conditions and procedures.