Fernando Pérez-Ruiz

Fernando Pérez-Ruiz, MD, PhD, is a Senior Consultant and Chief of the Rheumatology Division in Cruces University Hospital, Head of the Investigation Group for Arthritis at BioBizkaia Health Research Institute, and Associated PhD Professor of the Department of Medicine in School of Medicine and Nursery at the Basque Country University in Spain He received his MD from Basque Country University and a PhD in from Barcelona University with a clinical investigation program on classification and treatment of hyperuricemia in gout. Board certified in Rheumatology after a fellowship at Hospital Ramón y Cajal in Madrid through qualifying in the national exam for specialty within the top20. He has collaborated with the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) 2006 and 2016 recommendations for Gout management, the ACR Guidelines for gout 2012, the OMERACT special interest group for gout, and the T2T 2016 initiative for gout. He founded and coordinated the Crystal-induced Arthritis Study Group of the Spanish Society for Rheumatology (SER) and coordinates the SER-Guidelines 2013 and 2020 update for the management of gout. Has served as vicepresident of SER from 2014 to 2018 in charge of education programs and as delegate at EULAR of SER in the education and the investigation committees. Member of the advisory Committee for rheumatology fellowship at the Spanish Health Ministry 2014 to 2016 and member of the Corporative Pharmacy Commission in the Basque Health Department of the Basque Government, Pharmacy Comission at OSI EEC, and Comission for Adequacy in Clinical Practice at OSI EEC-BS. He has served for the last years as Editor in Chief of Exploration of Musculoskeletal Diseases, Associated Editor for Rheumatology & Therapy , and in the editorial boards of several indexed journals and as an invited reviewer for more than 30 international journals, and as an active member of the editorial board of Springer´s Medicine Matters Rheumatology and Wolters-Kluwer´s Up-to-Date. His research interests include crystal-induced arthritis, and especially gout, but has also investigated and published on CPPD, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia. Dr. Pérez-Ruiz has delivered over 100 lectures, published over 165 indexed articles and over 22 book chapters, on topics relating to diverse rheumatology diseases, but mostly gout, gathering an h-index 63.