Marco Matucci Cerinic

Marco Matucci-Cerinic is Full Professor of Rheumatology and Medicine at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Chairman of the IRB committee of the Tuscan region. Professor Matucci-Cerinic is a Scientific Consultant at Hospital San Raffaele, also occupies a possition at the Rheumatology Division of the Careggi University Hospital of Florence. Professor is a member of the prestigious British Royal College of Physicians, American College of Rheumatology, Italian Society of Rheumatology and is an honorary member of the British Society of Rheumatology.

Professor Matucci-Cerinic has published over 1,300 peer review papers in the field of rheumatology, particularly on the pathogenesis, clinical features and treatment of scleroderma, on spondyloarthritis and on osteoarthtritis.

He has also served on various international and national committees, in particular as EULAR General Secretary, as executive secretary of ILAR, as Chairman of the European Scleroderma Trial and Research Group (EUSTAR) and vicepresident of the Scleroderma Clinical Trial Consortium (SCTC).

He is currently chairman of the World Scleroderma Foundation (WSF) and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Scleroderma & Related Diseases (JSRD). He is also Associate Editor of Arthritis Research & Therapy and Clinical & Experimental Rheumatology, past Associate Editor and Co-Editor of Rheumatology. He serves on the boards of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Rheumatology, Journal of Rheumatology, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology and other journals of the field.