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💚 This World Arthritis Day, we’re celebrating the many different ways people living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) can continue to pursue their dreams.

In this special podcast episode, three guests discuss how dreams can evolve when living with an RMD, how circumstances can shape opportunities and goals, and why successful care should look beyond disease activity to what matters most in a person’s life.

Hosted by Nele Caeyers, featuring Prachee Bhosle and Sophia Marantidou from EULAR PARE and Saverio La Bella from EULAR EMEUNET.

#WorldArthritisDay #WAD2026 #AchieveYourDreams #RMDreams 

Join Cristiana Sieiro Santos, Ufuk Ilgen and Daliya Pencheva as they discuss the important role Country Liaisons play in connecting early-career rheumatologists across Europe, promoting EMEUNET opportunities at the national level, strengthening collaboration with national societies, and supporting educational and networking initiatives.

We also hear about the development of the Country Liaison Recognition Award and the experience and achievements of its first recipient, including advice for those looking to get more involved in EMEUNET.

Tune in to discover how Country Liaisons are helping build a more connected rheumatology community.

Listen to three of the Top 10 EMEUNET Abstract Award winners as they share the research behind their award-winning abstracts, recorded live at the EULAR 2026 Congress in London. 

From real-world outcomes in psoriatic arthritis to AI in patient education and innovative approaches to assessing disease activity in myositis, discover the stories behind the science and the latest research shaping the future of rheumatology. 

 🎧 Hear from RheumaVision 2026 finalists Vilde Øverlien Dåstøl, Kabir Budlender, and Mariia Sobchenko as they reflect on their projects, inspirations, and hopes for the future of rheumatology. 

Inside Rheumavision

Join Olivier in conversation with Cristiana Sieiro Santos and two semi-finalists from the second edition of Rheumavision 2026.

🎧 Want to get involved in EULAR Task Forces?

In the latest #EMEUNET Podcast, Olivier, Luis & Renske break down:
✔️ What a Task Force is
✔️ Who’s involved
✔️ How YOU can join

Join Renske Meijer & Milena Bond as they bring patients and healthcare professionals together to share perspectives that matter.

Plus, Sophia Marantidou speaks with Dr Jean-Guillaume Letarouilly and Prof Claire Daien about the impact of lifestyle in rheumatic diseases.

Learn about the new EULAR Classification Criteria for Haemochromatosis Arthropathy — a key step forward for research and clinical practice.

Join Renske, Rudi, and Olivier for a special episode of the EMEUNET podcast—a quiz-style episode highlighting key rheumatology publications from 2025.

Fun, interactive, and packed with take-home messagesyou won’t want to miss!

This week we dive into the Peer Review Programme — what it is, how it works, and why it matters for early-career rheumatologists.

Join Olivier & Guillermo as they speak with 3 winners of the EMEUNET Top 10 Abstracts

Hear from:
🔹 Lilla Gunkl-Tóth
🔹 Kensuke Suga
🔹 Carlo Tur

In this special EULAR Young PARE & EMEUNET Joint Podcast episode for World Arthritis Day 2025, themed “Achieve Your Dreams!”, we explore the hopes and aspirations of people living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) and the young rheumatologists who support them. Hosted by Tanita-Christina Wilhelmer, featuring Marko Mladenovic and Marcos Séneca García Rodríguez from Young PARE and Pierre-Antoine Juge and Krystel Aouad from EMEUNET.

"Young and ambitious" – Renske chats with Dr. Luis Coronel, a passionate rheumatologist from Barcelona.

Discover how he helped shape the EULAR ultrasound courses and what drives his journey!

Join Renske & Olivier as they talk with Prof. Flavia Ciccutini about repurposing metformin for patients with overweight or obesity.

🔍 Challenges, insights & future research!

Join Olivier, Rudi & Pierre as they chat with 3 winners of the EMEUNET Top 10 Abstracts!

Recorded at #EULAR2025, Olivier chats with Jean-Guillaume Letarouilly and the Rheumavision winners about creativity, science communication, and what this experience meant to them.

Join Rudi and Pierre in the latest #EMEUNETPodcast as they shine a light on the emerging and fast-growing field ofcardio-rheumatology.

Renske chats with Cristiana Seiero Santos, Jean-Guillaume Letarouilly & Tue Kragstrup, the visionaries behind #Rheumavision.

Learn about its foundation — and join the final event at #EULAR2025!

Join Gozde and Oliver as they talk with Prof. Denis Poddubnyy about the ASAS consensus definition of difficult-to-manage axSpA.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how this definition was developed, the challanged faced, and what it means for clinical practice and research.

Come along and join Barbara and Renske as they have a really great talk with Dr Nikiphorou about the connection between nutrition and RMDs, key research findings, and how all of this relates to the clinic.

Join Renske and Olivier as they test your knowledge of reproductive rheumatology in this special episode.

They will be joined by Prof. Radboud Dolhain from Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, who will share his expertise on the subject!

Join Olivier and Pierre and hear from 3 winners of the EMEUNET Top 10 Abstracts!

Listen to Jacob Koopman, Johannes Knitza and Andreas Kerschbaumer to find out more about their work and their experience of the ACR Convergence!

Join Barbara and Pierre and hear from Dr. Bryant England, Associate Professor of the University of Nebraska who investigates RA-ILD in the Veterans Affairs RA registry.

Learn about his effort to use such valuable dataset to estimate risk of lung cancer in patients with RA-ILD, and more!

Join Krystel and Pierre and hear from 3 special guests!

Mr. Peter Boyd (PARE), Dr. Sarah Bennett (HPR) and Dr. Jordi Anton (PAED) will discuss from various perspective why information to patients and shared- decision making is crucial in Rheumatology.

Join Claudia and Pierre and hear from Prof. Gaetane Nocturne about lymphoma in Sjogren’s disease.

Learn about the different therapeutic options and how effective they may be.

We will also keep up with recent advances in treatment of Sjogren’s disease!

Join Anastasia, Manouk and Pierre to hear from EMEUNET’s last publication on preparation and participation to a EULAR task force!

Learn how EMEUNET, PARE and HPR representatives face specific barriers and how you can fight them!

Learn more about the use of imaging in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with gout, CPPD and BCPD.

Join Stefan as he interviews Dr. Georgios Filippou about the 2023 EULAR recommendations for imaging in crystalinduced arthropathies.

Editorial Team: Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey

Join Stefan and Pierre as they interview Dr Manouk de Hooge to discuss her publication on the progression of axPsA, as well as her career within EULAR and EMEUNET.

Editorial Team: Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey

Join Stefan and Pierre as they interview Prof. Frank Buttgereit about the treat-to-target recommendations in giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica. Prof. Buttgereit is internationally recognized for his work on the effects of glucocorticoids on the immune system. He shares his insight into the clinical association of GCA and PMR, assessment of disease activity, definitions of remission and treatment options. Learn more about the current clinical challenges and future research perspectives!

As we start to prepare for EULAR 2024, we are looking back at some of our activities from conferences of recent years. In this special episode, we revisit our ever-popular EMEUNET Mentor-Mentee Meetings. In this episode, Dr Fabian Proft interviews Professor Nicola Dalbeth, a mentor during the programme at ACR 2022. Here, she shares her insights on her research career, top tips for early career researchers and much more!

The Mentor-Mentee (online or in-person) meetings  are a wonderful opportunity to discuss research topics and career plans in an informal atmosphere with an expert in the field of clinical or basic research in rheumatology. Stay tuned for the EULAR 2024 Mentor-Mentee in-person meetings, don’t miss this opportunity!

Editorial Team: Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey

As we start to prepare for EULAR 2024, we are looking back at some of our activities from conferences of recent years. In this special episode, we revisit our ever-popular EMEUNET Mentor-Mentee Meetings. In this episode, Dr Ertugrul Bolek interviews Dr Peter Grayson, a mentor during the programme at ACR 2022. Here, he shares insights on his research career, top tips for early career researchers, VEXAS and much more!

The Mentor-Mentee (online or in-person) meetings  are a wonderful opportunity to discuss research topics and career plans in an informal atmosphere with an expert in the field of clinical or basic research in rheumatology. Stay tuned for the EULAR 2024 Mentor-Mentee in-person meetings, don’t miss this opportunity!

Editorial Team: Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey

Join Pierre and Barbara as they interview Prof. Yukinori Okada about his groundbreaking study on immune diversity in rheumatic disorders through immunophenotyping. Be inspired by his career journey and discover the exciting prospects of using big data to enhance rheumatology outcomes.

Don't miss it – tune in now!

Editorial Team: Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey

Join Pierre and Barbara together with Prof Simona Rednic, chair of the EULAR Education committee, and have big pullet points in the rheumatology world in 2023 as well as expected novelties and EULAR events in 2024.

Editorial Team: Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey

2023 is already over! From our first episode on CAR-T cells in lupus to the holiday specials, 15 episodes of EMEUNET Podcast have been released. Let’s take a short moment to remember our best moments with special guests, Mrinalini Dey (a.k.a. Mini) and Philipp Bosch! 

Editorial Team: Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey

Join Stefan and Olivier together with Tue Kragstrup, chair of EMEUNET, and Latika Gupta, co-chair of Social Media subcommittee, and find out all about the EMEUNET Community. Want to learn how EMEUNET is build or how to become a member? We got all these things covered.  
We will talk about working groups, social media, networking and what to expect from joining EMEUNET.

Editorial Team: Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey

Dear EMEUNET Community,

This episode will include lots of music and a great interview with Prof. dr. van Vollenhoven, chair of EULAR research committee.

It is the fist episode of the series of holiday specials. This particularly episode is hosted by Stefan Dinescu and Renske Meijer.

This year's holiday season we would like to treat you with some special episodes. The episodes are different from what you are used to. The following will be presented to you in the coming month:

1. Christmas Music episode (22/12/2023)

2. EMEUNET Community episode (29/12/2023)

3. EMEUNET Podcast memories (05/01/2024)

4. Rheumatology in 2024 (12/01/2024)

We hope you'll enjoy listening!

Editorial Team: Bayram Farisogullari, Olivier Fakih, Mrinalini Dey, Latika Gupta, Renske Meijer.

Welcome to this special edition of the EMEUNET podcast!

Join podcast to meet Alexander Oldroyd, Cristiana Sieiro Santos and Bayram Farisogullari – three of the EMEUNET Top 10 Abstract winners at ACR 2023 hosted by Pierre-Antoine Juge and Olivier Fakih!

Editorial Team: Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey, Dr Latika Gupta

Join Stefan Dinescu and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests. What do you know about the benefit/risk balance of using immune check-point inhibitors in RA patients? – Let’s learn together with Dr. Jeffrey Sparks. 

– Let’s learn together with Pr. Benjamin Terrier.

Join Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests.

This week an interview with Dr. Jay Tuttle.

This PD-1 inhibitor was investigated by Dr. Tuttle and his team in a phase 2a RCT published in the NEJM. Dr. Tuttle also share about his career in the industry and how he is now responsible for developing clinical trials!

Editorial Team: Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey.

Join Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests.

This week an interview with prof. Christian Dejaco.

Have you heard about a new ultrasound based score that has been develeped to improve research in giant cell arteritis? 

Start listening now and say Halo to a new ultrasound score in GCA.

Editorial Team: Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Bayram Farigogularri, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey.

Join Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests.

This week an interview with Loreto Carmona, chair of EULAR Advocacy Committee. Learn about how EULAR is trying to advocate for patients with RMD to European politics.

Being a rheumatologist can also be political!

Editorial Team: Dr Renske Meijer, Dr Bayram Farisogullari, Dr Olivier Fakih, Dr Mrinalini Dey

The EMEUNET "What is New?" podcast is back! Join Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests.

If you are too busy to read the EMEUNET What Is New contributions (⁠⁠https://emeunet.eular.org/what_is_new.cfm⁠⁠), this podcast is exactly for you. Now you can get updated while on the go, with highlights of the most recent publications in the field of Rheumatology, selected for you by EMEUNET members.

Cyclophosphamide or Rituximab for interstitial lung disease in connective tissue disease? Learn about the newest results from the RECITAL trial with our guest Prof. Toby Maher.

The EMEUNET "What is New?" podcast is back! Join Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests.

If you are too busy to read the EMEUNET What Is New contributions (⁠⁠https://emeunet.eular.org/what_is_new.cfm⁠⁠), this podcast is exactly for you. Now you can get updated while on the go, with highlights of the most recent publications in the field of Rheumatology, selected for you by EMEUNET members.

In this episode, we are joined by Professor Daniel Solomon, lead author of the recently published TARGET trial data on reducing cardiovascular risk with immunomodulators.

Editorial Team: Dr Mrinalini Dey, Dr Tue Kragstrup

Welcome to this special edition of the EMEUNET podcast!

Join podcast hosts Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge to meet Anne Kerola, Mary-Lucy Marques and Lisa Christ – three of the EMEUNET Top 10 Abstract winners at EULAR 2023.

Editorial Team: Dr Mrinalini Dey, Dr Tue Kragstrup

The EMEUNET "What is New?" podcast is back! Join Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests.

If you are too busy to read the EMEUNET What Is New contributions (⁠https://emeunet.eular.org/what_is_new.cfm⁠), this podcast is exactly for you. Now you can get updated while on the go, with highlights of the most recent publications in the field of Rheumatology, selected for you by EMEUNET members.

In the lead up to EULAR 2023, join us for a discussion with EULAR President, Prof. Annamaria Iagnocco, where we discuss all things rheumatology, ice cream, and much more!

Editorial Team: Dr Edoardo Prediletto, Dr Mrinalini Dey, Dr Tue Kragstrup.

The EMEUNET "What is New?" podcast is back for another season! Join Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests.

If you are too busy to read the EMEUNET What Is New contributions (⁠https://emeunet.eular.org/what_is_new.cfm⁠), this podcast is exactly for you. Now you can get updated while on the go, with highlights of the most recent publications in the field of Rheumatology, selected for you by EMEUNET members.

Join us on an interview with the EMEUNET chair Dr. Kim Lauper.

Editorial Team: Dr Edoardo Prediletto, Dr Mrinalini Dey, Dr Tue Kragstrup.

The EMEUNET "What is New?" podcast is back for another season! Join Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests.

If you are too busy to read the EMEUNET What Is New contributions (https://emeunet.eular.org/what_is_new.cfm), this podcast is exactly for you. Now you can get updated while on the go, with highlights of the most recent publications in the field of Rheumatology, selected for you by EMEUNET members.

Join us on a journey through a EULAR recommendations process - with Dr. Sofia Ramiro. For more details on the ASAS-EULAR recommendations for the management of axial spondyloarthritis here the full publication: https://ard.bmj.com/content/82/1/19 .

Editorial Team: Dr Edoardo Prediletto, Dr Mrinalini Dey, Dr Tue Kragstrup.

The EMEUNET "What is New?" podcast is back for another season! Join Philipp Bosch and Pierre-Antoine Juge as they discuss hot topics in rheumatology with special guests.

If you are too busy to read the EMEUNET What Is New contributions (https://emeunet.eular.org/what_is_new.cfm), this podcast is exactly for you. Now you can get updated while on the go, with highlights of the most recent publications in the field of Rheumatology, selected for you by EMEUNET members.

If you are too busy to read the EMEUNET What Is New contributions (https://emeunet.eular.org/what_is_new.cfm), this podcast is exactly for you. Now you can get updated while on the go, with highlights of the most recent publications in the field of Rheumatology, selected for you by EMEUNET members.