Ricard Cervera

Ricard Cervera, MD, PhD, is Senior Consultant and Head at the Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Director of the Research Group on Systemic Autoimmune Diseases at the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) of Barcelona, Professor of Medicine-Autoimmune Diseases and Director of the UB-GSK Chair on Autoimmune Diseases, Coordinator of the Masters’ on Autoimmune Diseases and Academic Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Dr. Cervera is founder member and Executive Board member of the European Lupus Society and the Spanish Society of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (current Vicepresident) as well as member of the Catalan, Spanish and International Societies of Internal Medicine, the Spanish Society of Rheumatology and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) of London, and Honorary Member of the Argentinian, Mexican, Peruvian, Equatorian, Colombian, Slovak and Hungarian Societies of Rheumatology, and the Society of Clinical Immunology of the Community of Madrid. He is past-coordinator of the European Working Party on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Euro-Lupus Group) (1990-2008) and the European Forum on Antiphospholipid Antibodies (2009-2017) and founder member of the Lupus Academy.

Among other distinctions, Dr. Cervera has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of Asunción (Paraguay) and has received the Prizes of the «5th European Conference on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus», EULAR 2003 and EULAR 2005.

Dr. Cervera has presented over 1,000 invited lectures and has published more than 1,200 scientific papers (h index: 103). He is co-editor of 30 books and member of the Editorial Board of 20 medical journals and Associate Editor of the journals “Lupus Science & Medicine” and “European Journal of Internal Medicine”.