Daniel Aletaha

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Jun 1993 – Jun 1999 Medical
School, Medical University Vienna (formally: Faculty of Medicine, the University of Vienna)
Mar 1999 Advanced Epidemiology Training Programme (University of Manchester)
1999 – 2004, 2006 Clinical training in Internal Medicine and rheumatology
Feb 2004 – Jun 2006 Postdoctoral fellowship at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda.
Sep 2004 – Apr 2006 Master Program in Clinical Health Science at Duke University, Durham.
Oct 2004 Bio-Trac biotechnology programme on DNA-Microarrays (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda)
Jan – Apr 2005 Genomics training programme (National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda)
Jul 2006 Associate Professorship in Internal Medicine, Medical University Vienna
Mar 2007 – Consultant physician at the Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Vienna
Oct – Dec 2008 Clinical investigator programme
RESEARCH AND SCIENCE
Since 1998 Clinical; epidemiological, methodological, and translational research in rheumatology: Specific interests: arthritis and inflammatory rheumatic diseases; therapies and treatment strategies; diagnosis, prognosis, and outcomes.
2007 – 2008 Convenor of the joint project on “EULAR/ACR recommendations on how to report clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis”
2007 – 2010 Convenor of the joint project “ACR/EULAR classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis”
Scientific publications: Author or co-author of more than 191 indexed publications 
Scientific abstracts: Numerous oral and poster presentations at various national and international meetings.
Book chapters:
2012-2014 EULAR Textbook on Rheumatic Diseases,
2013 Rheumatology (Hochberg et al., 5th ed); Chapter: “Outcomes measurement in RA”
2013 Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology, 3rd ed.
2014 Atlas of Rheumatology (Emery P et al., 1st ed); Chapter: “Diagnosis of RA”
Invited presentations: >150 invited presentations at international, regional, national, and sponsored meetings
Prizes, awards, grants:
2002 Grant by the Major of the City of Vienna (“Bürgermeisterfonds”): “BELIRA Study – Better Life in RA”)
2003 Erwin Schr?dinger fellowship grant for 2 years
2005 NIH/NIAMS Outstanding Scientific Presentation Award
2005 Science award of the Austrian Society of Rheumatology (“Wissenschaftspreis“)
2006 Science award of the Austrian Society of Rheumatology (“Wissenschaftspreis“)
2006 EULAR project grant “Recommendations on Reporting Disease Activity in RA”
2007 EULAR project grant “Classification Criteria for Rheumatoid Arthritis”
2007 Rheumatology award (?Rheumapreis“), St. Anna Kinderspital
2009 Rheumatology award (?Rheumapreis“), St. Anna Kinderspital
2011 Theodor Biiroth Prize (Austrian Chamber of Physicians)
2011 Grant by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF): “BioBio Study – A randomised biomarker trialin RA”
2013 Grant by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF): “reRA Study – Refractory RA”
2016 Honorary Membership awarded by the EULAR 
Editorial journal activities:
- Associate Editor, “Arthritis& Rheumatology”
- Associate Editor, “Rheumatology& Musculoskeletal Disease Open”
- Editorial BoardMember, the “Annals of the Rheumatic Disease”
- Editorial BoardMember, “Arthritis, Research & Therapy”
Guest editor:
- 2010 Arthritis Research and Therapy; Review Series: “Treating rheumatic patients with Comorbidities”
- 2014: BioDrugs, Supplement
MEMBERSHIPS
- American College of Rheumatology
- Austrian Society for Rheumatology
- Austrian Society for Internal Medicine
FUNCTIONS
2009 – ongoing Quality Manager of the Department of Internal Medicine
2009 – ongoing Member of the Executive Committee of the EULAR
2010 Founding member of the “Emerging EULAR Network” (EMENUET)
2010 – 2011 First Chairman of the “Emerging EULAR Network” (EMENUET)
2011 – ongoing Member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical University Vienna
2011 – 2013 Chairman of the EULAR Standing Committee on Clinical Affairs
2011 – 2012 Member of the Scientific Committee of EULAR
2012 – 2016 Member of the Clinical Studies Subcommittee, Arthritis Research UK
2014 Member of the Nomination Committee for the Horizon 2020 Scientific Panel for Health
2014 – 2016 EULAR liaison officer for interaction with the American College of Rheumatology for collaborative criteria or guideline project.