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
Committee Members

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
Kim Bennell
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University of Melbourne
Australia
Danny Chan
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Hong Kong
Changhai Ding, MD, PhD
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Southern Medical University
Guangzhou, China

EunAh Lee
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Armaghan Mahmoudian
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University of West Florida, United States; Lund University, Sweden

Ingrid Meulenbelt
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LUMC
Netherlands

Rachel Miller
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Michael Nevitt
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University of California
USA

Tonia Vincent
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University of Oxford
UK

Frank Zaucke
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Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Elected Officer

Mohit Kapoor, PhD
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Schroeder Arthritis Institute
Toronto, Canada