Professor Paul Emery is the Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology and Director of

the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine and the Director of the Leeds

Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in Leeds, United

Kingdom. Professor Emery was the President of the European League Against Rheumatism

(EULAR) from 2009-2011 and has served on the editorial boards major rheumatology journals

including Rheumatology, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Clinical

and Experimental Rheumatology, and Clinical Rheumatology. He was the inaugural President of

International Extremity MRI Society (ISEMIR) and is a National Institute for Health Research

(NIHR) Senior Investigator. Professor Emery is a recipient of the Roche Biennial Award for

Clinical Rheumatology; the Rheumatology Hospital Doctor of the Year Award; the EULAR

Prize for outstanding contribution to rheumatology research; and the Carol Nachman Prize

for outstanding rheumatology research. Professor Emery's research interests center around the

immunopathogenesis and immunotherapy of rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis, and connective

tissue diseases. He has a special interest in the factors leading to persistent inflammation

and has published over 950 peer-reviewed articles in this area.