OAFI organizes the II Pre-Congress

Next Monday, November 2, 2020, the II edition of the OAFI Pre-Congress “Osteoarthritis Patients in the center of the disease” will be broadcast from 10:00 am to 13:15 am (CEST) on the OAFI YouTube channel. In this edition, world-class OA experts will share their experiences and latest novelties in research disease management and patients and public engagement in scientific publications.

The event is geared toward health professionals, researchers, health policymakers and companies. It aims to share knowledge and create collaborations in the field of musculoskeletal diseases and patients engagement in research. The Pre-congress introduces the IV International Congress of Patients with Osteoarthritis.

You can access the Pre-Congress agenda below.

You can consult the extended Pre-Congress agenda here.

In this Pre-Congress editiion, we will have speakers such as Professor David Hunter, Florance and Cope Chair of Rheumatology at the Sydney University (Australia) and first one in the world ranking of experts in osteoarthritis according to expertscape.com. We will also have Dr. Amy Price, Editor of The BMJ, Research and Evaluation editor (patients and public Association) (UK), Dr. Ciaran Fitzpatrick, Editor of BMC Muskuloskeletal Disorders (UK), Mr. Jonathan Collin, Journal Development Management at BioMed Central (UK), Professor Krysia Dziedzic, UK Arthritis Research Professor on Muskuloskeletal Therapies at the Keele University (UK), Professor Ali Mobasheri, President of OARSI (UK, Finland), Dr. Josep Vergés, President and CEO of the OAFI Foundation (Spain), Dr. Marianna Vitaloni, Scientific Director at the OAFI Foundation (Spain) and Professor Leigh F Callahan, Director of the Osteoarthritis Action Alliance (OAAA) (USA). You can consult here a short biography of the speakers.

All te videos from the conferences will be broadcast at our YouTube channel.