Ghent University Hospital
Gent, Belgium
Vanessa Smith is Head of Clinics at the Ghent University Hospital since 2011 and Associate Professor of Rheumatology at the Ghent University since 2014.
Professor Smith is a member of the Steering committee of the European Reference Network on Rare Connective tissue and musculoskeletal diseases (ERN- ReCONNET) since 2016 and executive board member of ERN- ReCONNET as coordinator of systemic sclerosis (SSc) since 2017. She serves as Belgian national expert contact point for Health Authorities and is the Chair of the Flemish network for rare connective tissue diseases.
Professor Smith was awarded the 2011 Belgian Cristina Pivetta prize for “Contribution to treatment strategies and diagnostic algorithms for patients with SSc” and received several grants from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders for her research on capillaroscopy/SSc.
Professor Smith currently holds a position as Senior Clinical Investigator of the Research Foundation – Flanders, and is the chair of the EULAR study group on Microcirculation in Rheumatic diseases. She is an organizing/scientific board member of the 2nd up the 12th EULAR courses on capillaroscopy and chairs the EULAR network of training and research, Ghent center for microcirculatory imaging. Prof. Smith is member of the scientific committee of the 6th SSc World Congress (March 2020).
At the same time, Professor Smith is co-Editor of several books, as well as co-author of book chapters and several manuscripts on SSc/microcirculation.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
Disclosure(s): Argenx: Consultant (Terminated); Boehringer-Ingelheim: Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Galapagos: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated); Janssen: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); WebMD Global LLC: Consultant (Terminated)
14T171: Abstracts: Immunological Complications of Medical Therapy (2509–2514)
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PT
Disclosure(s): Argenx: Consultant (Terminated); Boehringer-Ingelheim: Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Galapagos: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated); Janssen: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); WebMD Global LLC: Consultant (Terminated)