Nominating

The Nominating Committee reviews all applications and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee seeks to maintain gender, geographical and specialty balance.

The Nominating Committee is appointed annually by the Board and shall consist of one other elected officer, at least two other board members and at least two regular members of the society who are not board members.  The regular members of the Nominating Committee shall not be eligible to be nominated to the Board while serving on the  committee.  The Nominating Committee has the following responsibilities:
  • Assess the current composition of the board and begin to identify potential board members.  Identify strengths and gaps in the board (both current and future). 
  • Assemble a confidential, cumulative list of prospective board members from nominations received by the membership, the board, committees and nominating committee members. 
  • Hold a teleconference meeting for the purposes of reviewing all nominations and compiling a slate for presentation to the board. 
  • Present the slate of nominees to the board for approval. 
  • The Committee also selects recipients of the annual awards program.

Chair

Gun-il Im, MD, PhD
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Dongguk University
 Goyang, Republic of Korea

Board Liaison

Martin van der Esch, PhD
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Reade, Centre Of Rehabilitation and Rheumatology
 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cristina Ruiz-Romero, PhD
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Hospital Universitario A Coruña
 A Coruña, Spain

Committee Members

Sarah Snelling
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University of Oxford
 United Kingdom
Heather Vincent
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University of Florida
 USA
Jos Runhaar
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Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam
 The Netherlands
Kazuo Hayashi
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 Japan
Sita Bierma-Zeinstra
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Erasmus Medical University
 The Netherlands
Annegret Mündermann
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University Hospital Basel
 Switzerland
Sung-Hwan Kim
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Yonsei University
 Korea
Nataliia Grygorieva
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Dmitry F. Chebotarev Institute of Gerontology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
 Ukraine
Simo Saarakkala
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University of Oulu
 Finland

Elected Officer

Mohit Kapoor, PhD
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Schroeder Arthritis Institute
 Toronto, Canada