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recommendations on the management and diagnosis of hand osteoarthritis. Dr Leeb has received various awards, including the Wyeth Scientific Award from the Austrian Society for Rheumatology and Rehabilitation (in 2009). He is an associate editor for BMC Musculoskeletal Diseases and Frontiers in Rheumatology and an editorial board member for various other journals. He has authored 185 publications in journals and books. Dr Leeb is currently chairman of BioReg, the Austrian Registry of Biologicals for the treatment of inflammatory rheumatic diseases.



Viera Stvrtinova, MD, PhD at Comenius University Hospital in Bratislava, graduated from the Medical Faculty in 1983, completing degrees in internal medicine (1987), cardiology (1992) and angiology (2003). In 1996 she became an associate professor and in 2001 a full professor of internal medicine. Since 1983 she has been working at the 2nd Clinic of the Internal Medicine University Hospital in Bratislava, from 2001 as a full professor of internal medicine. She is currently head of the Outpatients Department of Angiology and responsible for angiological patients at the Inpatients Department of the 2nd Clinic of Internal Medicine.
From 2011 to 2015 she served as Vice Dean for Science and Research at the Medical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she has been Vice Dean for Education since 2015.
She is also Vice-President of the Central European Vascular Forum (CEVF), President of the Slovak Angiological Society of the Slovak Medical Association, Member of the Executive Board of the International Union of Angiology, Correspondent Member of the German Society of Phlebology, and an Honorary Member of the Czech Angiological Society.
She has published 7 books, 519 publications (articles and abstracts) in scientific journals (334 in national Slovak journals), and has 686 citations.
She is an associated editor of CEVF in the journal International Angiology, and a member of the editorial committee for the Slovak journals Vascular Medicine, Practical Phlebology, Derma and Rheumatologia.

Richard Imrich, MD, DSc is head of the Laboratory of Human Endocrinology, Biomedical Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He has previously served as Vice-president of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2013-2015) and as director of the Center for Molecular Medicine, Slovak Academy of Sciences (2007-2013). He was also a member of the Clinical Neurocardiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA until 2008.In 2004 he worked at the Neuroendocrine Immunology Lab, Dept. of Pharmacology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and in 2003 he won both the Slovak Society of Rheumatology Award and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Training Bursary. In 2004 he also won the Jonas Bohumil Guoth Award of the Slovak Medical Society Presidium. In 2006 he was nominated Young Scientist of the Year by the Slovak Ministry of Health. He has engaged in numerous Research Projects, and has authored over 80 papers as well as diverse books and book chapters.