Fernando Pérez-Ruiz, MD, PhD

Fernando Pérez-Ruiz, MD, PhD

Fernando Pérez-Ruiz, MD, PhD

Fernando Pérez-Ruiz, MD, PhD, is a Consultant of the Rheumatology Division in Hospital Universitario Cruces, Head of the Investigation Group for Arthritis at Biocruces Health Research Institute, and Associated Professor of the Department of Medicine in School of Medicine and Nursery at the Basque Country University in Vizcaya, Spain

He has collaborated with the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) 2006 and 2016 recommendations for Gout management, the ACR Guidelines for gout 2012, the OMERACT special interest group for gout, and the T2T 2016 initiative for gout. He founded and coordinated the Crystal-induced Arthritis Study Group of the SER (Spanish Society for Rheumatology) and coordinates the SER-Guidelines for the management of gout and the ongoing update.

He has served for the last years as associated editor and editorial boards of several indexed journals and as an invited reviewer for more than 30 international journals. His research interests include crystal-induced arthritis, and especially gout, but has also investigated and published on calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD), lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia.

Dr. Pérez-Ruiz has delivered over 100 lectures, published 130 indexed articles and 20 book chapters, presenting over 250 scientific abstracts in rheumatology meetings on topics relating to diverse rheumatology diseases, but mostly gout, gathering a cumulated impact factor over 1,500, and h-index over 40.

He received his MD from Basque Country University and a PhD in from Barcelona University with a clinical investigation program on classification and treatment of hyperuricemia in gout. Board certified in Rheumatology after a fellowship at Hospital Ramón y Cajal in Madrid through qualifying in the national exam for specialty.