Professor Rolando Cimaz, Universita di Firenze, Osp Meyer Firenze, Italy is Executive Committee Member and cofounder of the Pediatric Rheumatology European Society. He is a member of the American College of Rheumatology, the Italian Society of Pediatrics, the French Society of Pediatric Inflammatory Diseases and the French Society of Pediatric Ortophedics. He is a co-author of more than 120 articles and 150 abstracts, as well as 18 book chapters, all in the field of pediatric rheumatology.