Martin Aringer1, Karen Costenbader2, David Daikh3, Ralph Brinks4, Marta Mosca5, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman6, Josef S Smolen7, David Wofsy8, Dimitrios T Boumpas9,10, Diane L Kamen11, David Jayne12, Ricard Cervera13, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau14, Betty Diamond15, Dafna D Gladman16, Bevra Hahn17, Falk Hiepe18, Søren Jacobsen19, Dinesh Khanna20, Kirsten Lerstrøm21, Elena Massarotti22,23, Joseph McCune20, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza24, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero25,26, Matthias Schneider27, Murray Urowitz28, George Bertsias29, Bimba F Hoyer18,30, Nicolai Leuchten31, Chiara Tani32, Sara K Tedeschi23,33, Zahi Touma34, Gabriela Schmajuk3, Branimir Anic35, Florence Assan36, Tak Mao Chan37, Ann Elaine Clarke38, Mary K Crow39, László Czirják40, Andrea Doria41, Winfried Graninger42, Bernadett Halda-Kiss40, Sarfaraz Hasni43, Peter M Izmirly44, Michelle Jung38, Gábor Kumánovics40, Xavier Mariette45,46, Ivan Padjen35, José M Pego-Reigosa47, Juanita Romero-Diaz26, Íñigo Rúa-Figueroa Fernández48, Raphaèle Seror36, Georg H Stummvoll49, Yoshiya Tanaka50, Maria G Tektonidou51, Carlos Vasconcelos52, Edward M Vital53,54, Daniel J Wallace55, Sule Yavuz56, Pier Luigi Meroni57, Marvin J Fritzler58, Ray Naden59, Thomas Dörner18, Sindhu R Johnson60,61. 1. Medicine III, University Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany martin.aringer@uniklinikum-dresden.de Sindhu.Johnson@uhn.ca. 2. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 3. University of California at San Francisco and VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA. 4. Policlinic and Hiller Research Unit for Rheumatology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany. 5. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. 6. Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 7. Department of Rheumatology, Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 8. Department of Medicine, Russell/Engleman Rheumatology Research Center, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. 9. Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, Medical School, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, and Biomedical Research Foundation of the Athens Academy, Athens, Greece. 10. Departments of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. 11. Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. 12. Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. 13. Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 14. Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto Scleroderma Research Program, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 15. Center for Autoimmune, Musculoskeletal and Hematopoietic Diseases, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA. 16. Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 17. Division of Rheumatology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. 18. Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany. 19. Copenhagen Lupus and Vasculitis Clinic, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. 20. Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 21. Lupus Europe, Co-Opted Trustee for Research, Essex, UK. 22. Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 23. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 24. Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Hospital Universitario Cruces, UPV/EHU, Bizkaia, The Basque Country, Spain. 25. Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital/University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 26. Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico. 27. Policlinic and Hiller Research Unit for Rheumatology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany. 28. Center for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Lupus Clinic, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 29. Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. 30. Department of Medicine III, University of Schleswig-Holstein at Kiel, Kiel, Germany. 31. Medicine III, University Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. 32. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. 33. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 34. Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 35. Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine and University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. 36. Department of Rheumatology, Université Paris Sud, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Sud, AP-HP, INSERM UMR 1184, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. 37. Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 38. Division of Rheumatology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 39. Hospital for Special Surgery, Ney York, New York, USA. 40. Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary. 41. Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padova, Padova, Italy. 42. Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria. 43. Lupus Clinical Research Program, Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 44. Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA. 45. Rheumatology, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpitaux universitaires Paris-Sud - Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France. 46. Department of Rheumatology, Université Paris-Sud, Center for Immunology of Viral Infections and Auto-immune Diseases (IMVA), Institut pour la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) UMR 1184, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France. 47. Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Vigo, IRIDIS Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IISGS), Vigo, Spain. 48. Rheumatology, Doctor Negrín University Hospital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain. 49. Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 50. First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, Kitakyushu, Japan. 51. Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 52. Clinical Immunology Unit, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, ICBAS, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. 53. Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. 54. NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK. 55. Division of Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. 56. Department of Rheumatology, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, Turkey. 57. Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy. 58. Faculty of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 59. Maternal-Fetal Medicine, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 60. Internal Medicine Department, Centre de référence maladies auto-immunes et systémiques rares d'île deFrance, Cochin Hospital, Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, INSERM U1153, Center for Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS), Paris, France martin.aringer@uniklinikum-dresden.de Sindhu.Johnson@uhn.ca. 61. Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.