EMEUNET Committee 2025-2026

Diego is currently working as a rheumatologist at Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge in Barcelona and as an assistant professor at the Universidad de Barcelona. Additionally, he collaborates as a Senior Medical Advisor at Savana, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. Beyond his involvement in healthcare technology, particularly AI, his primary interests include spondyloarthritis, patient-reported outcomes, and musculoskeletal epidemiology.

Diego is the Chair of EMEUNET.

Tue is currently working as a part-time associate professor in immunology and pharmacology and a part-time rheumatologist in Aarhus and Silkeborg, Denmark.

Kragstrup lab focuses on the immunological mechanisms of inflammatory arthritis with a special interest in building in vitro models and bioinformatics pipelines for drug discovery, target validation, personalised medicine and drug repurposing. The rheumatology section in Silkeborg has a large outpatient clinic involved in biobanking, clinical trials, cohort studies and quality improvement projects.

Tue is the past-chair of EMEUNET.

Krystel is an assistant professor in rheumatology and a full-time consultant rheumatologist at Saint George Hospital University Medical Centre in Lebanon, where she is actively involved in medical education and serves as the internal medicine coordinator for third-year medical students.

In 2019, she pursued her fellowship in Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris and obtained a Master’s degree in Science (MSc), biostatistics and Public Health (MPH) from Paris Saclay University under the mentorship of Prof Laure Gossec. Additionally, she holds a diploma in musculoskeletal ultrasound from Sorbonne Université, Paris. Her major interests are spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, patient-reported outcomes and imaging.

Krystel is the current Chair of the EMEUNET Visibility and Global Affairs Sub-Committee.

Sytske Anne is a post-doctoral clinical researcher at the Department of Rheumatology of the Leiden University Medical Centre in Leiden. In 2018, she obtained her PhD on worldwide treatment opportunities of rheumatoid arthritis.

Her major research interest is rheumatoid arthritis, with a focus on the optimal use of current treatment strategies, often in an international context. She has an interest in advanced statistics and methodology, which she applies to bridge the gap between scientifically studied treatment strategies and what is done in actual care.

Sytske Anne is the project coordinator of the METEOR registry and the Leiden Early Arthritis Clinic cohort, and co-chair of the EMEUNET Social Media Sub-Committee.

Tania is a Rheumatology Consultant working at ESNEFT, in Ipswich, UK, where she is leading the Spondyloarthritis Service. She is also a Visiting Fellow at ESNEFT Research Unit for Behaviour, Health and Wellbeing, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, UK.

She has a special interest in spondyloarthritis, including axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis, with a focus on patient perspective/ patient reported outcomes, multidisciplinary working and service development. She is very passionate about patient education and psychology in rheumatic diseases.

She is a trustee/ member of the British Psoriatic Arthritis Consortium (BritPACT) Steering committee, a member of the British Society for Spondyloarthritis (BritSPA) and the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA).

Tania is the co-chair of the EMEUNET Social Media Subcommittee.

Pierre-Antoine is an assistant professor at the Rheumatology department, Bichat Hospital, Université de Paris Cité, Paris. His major interests are the pulmonary manifestations of connective tissue diseases and rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease, in particular. He also participates in innovative educational programmes at his university, such as the ECOS (Examen Clinique Objectif et Structuré), which is a situational exercise that assesses the skills and knowledge of medical students.

Pierre-Antoine is the chair of the EMEUNET Education Sub-Committee.

Anastasia is a NIHR Manchester BRC Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and the Kellgren Centre, a Lupus UK Centre of Excellence, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

Her research focuses on multi-omics to identify novel treatment targets and advance precision medicine in lupus spectrum disorders.

She is an author of the Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology (5th edition) and a member of the EULAR Task Force for the Lupus Nephritis recommendations.

Anastasia is the chair of the EMEUNET Newsletter Sub-Committee.

Mert is a consultant rheumatologist at Acibadem University Atakent Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey.​

His major interests are vasculitis and connective tissue diseases.​

He currently serves as a Chair of the EMEUNET Peer-Mentoring Sub-Committee​

Cristiana is a rheumatologist and clinical researcher trained at the Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León (Spain), currently serving as a Clinical and Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and at the Kellgren Centre for Rheumatology, Manchester Royal Infirmary (UK). She is pursuing her PhD at the University of León (Spain), focusing on vaccine immunogenicity in patients with immune-mediated rheumatic diseases. She also holds formal training in epidemiology from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (Portugal).

Her research interests centre on connective tissue diseases, including systemic sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and reproductive health in rheumatic diseases.

She is actively involved in EUSTAR, SLEuro, and JOVREUM, and currently serves as a Social Media Editor for RMD Open and Associate Editor for Rheumatology (Oxford).

Cristiana is the Chair of the EMEUNET Country Liaison Subcommittee and also serves as the Advisory Country Liaison for Spain, promoting international collaboration and peer mentorship among early-career rheumatologists.