Contributing Authors
Stephen Bevan, Managing Director, The Work Foundation
The Work Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that through research, consultancy and advocacy aims to improve the quality of working life. Working with both public sector and private sector organisations, it offers a distinctive mix of practical consultancy, robust research and campaigning on policy issues. It also runs a major programme of research and consultancy around Health and Wellbeing issues.

Dr Maarten de Wit, Vice President, EULAR PARE
People with Arthritis/Rheumatism in Europe (PARE) is a Standing Committee within the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), the organisation representing the patient, health professional and scientific societies of rheumatology of all the European nations. EULAR endeavours to stimulate, promote, and support the research, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of rheumatic diseases.

Professor Paul Emery, University of Leeds
Professor Emery is Arthritis Research Campaign Professor of Rheumatology and Head of Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He is also Clinical Director (Rheumatology) at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. Professor Emery has served as a member of several education committees including the Senior Advisory Committees of the Royal College of Physicians, the MRCP Part 1 Board. He is currently the Treasurer for EULAR, a past member of the Scientific Committee and Chairs the MRI imaging group. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Rheumatology, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Clinical Rheumatology and Modern Rheumatology (Japanese Rheumatology Association Journal).


