5th International Conference of Orthopedic Surgeons and Rheumatology June 16-17, 2016 Alicante, Spain

Diana obtained her degree in Mechanical Engineering and her PhD in solid state gyroscopes from the University of Hertfordshire (UH). Diana has 30 patents granted on solid state sensors and more recently on medical applications relating to the use of these sensors. In 2000 Diana was awarded an MBE for services to SMEs in the region and in 2002 she won the Women Inventor of the Year Award for Industry. In 2005 Diana was awarded an Honorary doctorate from the UH for services to innovation. In 1995 Diana and her husband established their own business, ETB and in 2009 ETB launched their sensor based gait monitoring product, GaitSmart. This is now a world leading product used in wide range of medical and sports applications around the world. One of the sectors where it is applied is orthopaedics and a number of papers have been published on this topic. Diana is currently a visiting professor at the UH and helped to establish a new MEng course in Biomedical Engineering and in 2014 was awarded Alumni of the year at the UH.

Diana has a strong research interest in developing tools to improve diagnosis of hip and knee OA and to improve the functional outcomes of those people who have received a hip or knee joint replacement.

I have established a very strong research program over the past 40 years concerning the interplay between biological and behavioral factors that influence persistent pain in persons with rheumatologic illnesses. The overall goal of this work, continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1989, is to use clinical and basic science methods to enhance our understanding of individual differences in persistent pain and lead to improved management of pain and related health outcomes. For example, during the past 6 years, our collaboration with colleagues at the University of Florida has documented reliable differences between African American and non-Hispanic white persons with knee osteoarthritis (OA) in response to noxious heat, pressure, and cold stimuli. We and our colleagues have begun to examine how psychosocial and biologic variables (e.g., sleep disturbance, imaging of brain structure and function, pain biomarkers) contribute to ethnic variations in knee OA pain at baseline and change in these variables and pain during a 2-year follow-up period. We anticipate our work will lead to substantial new findings and better understanding of individual differences in pain among persons with knee OA.

His research interests are rheumatologic illnesses, knee osteoarthritis, sleep disturbance, imaging of brain structure and function, pain biomarkers.

Dr. Pablo Herrero has completed his PhD in Physiotherapy at Zaragoza University, with European Mention after Research Stage at Keele University. He is Vice Dean of the Physiotherapy Degree and Head of iPhysio Research Group at San Jorge University. Apart from international publications currently focused on dry needling, he is one of the researchers that developed 3TOOL, a new patented multifunctional device for myofascial trigger points and soft tissue treatment and self-treatment.

His research interest are Physiotherapy and Orthopedics

Falk Hiepe, M.D., is Deputy Director of the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and leader of the Autoimmunology research group at the German Rheumatism Research Center – a Leibniz Institute in Berlin, Germany. Hiepe graduated from Berlin’s Medical School Charité at Humboldt University Berlin in 1976. He received board certification as an internist in 1983, and as a rheumatologist in 1994. He was crucially involved in setting up a laboratory for autoantibody diagnostics at Charité. In 1988, he completed his postdoctoral thesis on the diagnostic and pathogenetic relevance of autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus at Humboldt University Berlin. Research stays brought him to the Department of Medicine and Physical Therapy (Head: T. Miyamoto) at the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1987, and to the W. M. Keck Autoimmune Disease Center (Head: E. M. Tan) at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, USA, in 1995. Falk Hiepe was appointed as full professor in 1997. He is a member of the German Society of Rheumatology, the German Society of Immunology, the Henry Kunkel Society, and the IUIS/WHO/AF/CDC Committee for the Standardization of Autoantibodies. As principal investigator, he has participated in numerous clinical trials in rheumatic autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus.

His clinical focus is on inflammatory rheumatic diseases, autoantibody diagnostics, treatment of connective tissue diseases and vasculitis, and extracorporeal and cell therapies, including stem cell therapy. His scientific interests include the diagnostic and pathogenetic significance of autoantibodies, the role of B and plasma cells in autoimmune diseases, and novel therapeutic approaches. His group was the first to identify and describe the role of long-lived memory plasma cells in autoimmunity. Because of their refractoriness to conventional immunosuppression and B-cell-targeted therapies, strategies targeting memory plasma cells are currently his main research focus.

Yesim Garip has completed her MD at Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey (2003) and completed training in the medical specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey (2009). She is the director of a physical therapy and rehabilitation center. She has published about 30 papers in journals and 2 of her papers were awarded in international congresses. She has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Sports Medicine and World Journal of Rheumatology.

Her research interests are Orthopedics, Rheumatology, physical therapy and rehabilitation.

Doctor Hongwu Du is the Deputy Chair of Key Laboratory of Beijing Bioengineering & Sensing Technology of Beijing, China and have served as senior scientist in Department of Proteomics & Immunology, National Engineering Research Center for Beijing Biochip Technology, Beijing, China. He had also been Associate Professor & Vice Director, Department of Biology, School of Applied Science, University of Science & Technology Beijing. Beijing, China and then continued as Research Associate, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. He have published more then 160 research paper in reputed journals.

His research interest are Rheumatoid arthritis, Autoimmune Diseases, Behcet's disease.

Lene Dreyer has completed her PhD in epidemiology in 1999 from Copenhagen University. She has been member of the Steering committee of DANBIO for six years. She is Chief Physician and Clinical associate professor at Department of Rhematology, Gentofte University Hospital. She has published more than 45 papers in reputed journals.

Her research interests are Rhematology and Epidemiology.