Oxford Textbook of Psoriatic Arthritis

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Professor Oliver FitzGerald is a consultant rheumatologist at St Vincent's University Hospital and the Newman Clinical Research Professor at the Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research at University College Dublin. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed papers and his main research interests include the clinical and therapeutic studies of psoriatic arthritis the development of novel imaging techniques for measuring synovial or entheseal inflammation and studies of gene and protein expression in diseased tissue. He also serves as a council member for the Group for Research and Assessment is Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) and is developing a longitudinal study of soluble biomarkers with the OMERACT group. Dr Dafna Gladman is a senior scientist at the Toronto Western Research Institute University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She heads the Centre for Prognosis in Rheumatic Diseases which currently studies areas including Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Psoriatic Arthritis and is co-director of the Psoriatic Arthritis at the UHN Arthritis Program. She has over 520 peer-reviewed publications including important contributions to the field such as identifying predictors for disease progression and mortality. She received the Verna Wright Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Psoriatic Arthritis by the International psoriatic Arthritis Group.