Esperanza Naredo

Education

• PhD degree (Cum Laude) at the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain with the thesis “Assessment of inflammatory activity with ultrasound in rheumatoid arthritis”. 
• Visiting Fellowship at the Department of Radiology, Musculoskeletal Unit (Prof M. van Holsbeeck), Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1995).

Professional experience and Academic activity

• Staff member of the Department of Rheumatology and researcher at the Joint and Bone Research Unit at the Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
• Associate Professor of the Department of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
  

International and national educational activity

• Founder and Chairperson of the Ultrasound School of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology in 1996.
• Organizer and/or faculty member in more than 300 national and international musculoskeletal ultrasound courses under the umbrella of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology, EULAR, ACR, and other International Scientific Societies.
• Convenor and senior author of the EULAR Ultrasound Scanning Guide and App, 2016.

International leadership

• Chairperson of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Standing Committee on Musculoskeletal Imaging (2013-2017).
• Co-chair of the OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology) Ultrasound group (2008-2016).

Research activity

• Author of 200 publications in indexes international journals and 40 book chapters or books.