Editor
Richard J. Bucala, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven

Deputy Editor
Daniel H. Solomon, MD, MPH, Boston

Co-Editors 
S. Louis Bridges Jr., MD, PhD, Birmingham
Joseph E. Craft, MD, New Haven
David T. Felson, MD, MPH, Boston
Richard F. Loeser Jr., MD, Chapel Hill
Peter A. Nigrovic, MD, Boston
Christopher T. Ritchlin, MD, MPH, Rochester
John Varga, MD, Chicago

Co-Editor and Review Article Editor
Robert Terkeltaub, MD, San Diego

Clinical Trials Advisor
Michael E. Weinblatt, MD, Boston

Journal Publications Committee
Nora G. Singer, MD, Chair, Cleveland
Kelli D. Allen, PhD, Chapel Hill
Cecilia P. Chung, MD, MPH, Nashville
Kim D. Jones, RN, PhD, FNP, Portland
Brian L. Kotzin, MD, Los Angeles
Janet L. Poole, PhD, OTR, Albuquerque
Amr H. Sawalha, MD, Ann Arbor

Editorial Staff
Jane S. Diamond, MPH, Managing Editor, Atlanta
Patricia K. Reichert, Assistant Managing Editor, Atlanta
Lesley W. Allen, Senior Manuscript Editor, Atlanta
Patricia L. Mabley, Manuscript Editor, Atlanta
Kristin W. Mitchell, Manuscript Editor, Atlanta
Emily W. Wehby, Manuscript Editor, Atlanta
Michael Weinberg, MA, Manuscript Editor, Atlanta
Joshua R. Reynolds, Editorial Coordinator, Atlanta
Brittany Swett, Editorial Assistant, New Haven
Carolyn Roth, Senior Production Editor, Boston

Daniel Aletaha, MD, MS, Vienna
Heather G. Allore, PhD, New Haven
Lenore M. Buckley, MD, MPH, New Haven
Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH, Boston
Daniel J. Clauw, MD, Ann Arbor
Robert A. Colbert, MD, PhD, Bethesda
Karen H. Costenbader, MD, MPH, Boston
Kevin D. Deane, MD, Denver

Patrick M. Gaffney, MD, Oklahoma City
Mark C. Genovese, MD, Palo Alto
Andrew H. Haims, MD, New Haven
David J. Hunter, MBBS, PhD, Sydney
Insoo Kang, MD, New Haven
Arthur Kavanaugh, MD, La Jolla
Wan-Uk Kim, MD, PhD, Seoul
S. Sam Lim, MD, MPH, Atlanta
Anne-Marie Malfait, MD, PhD, Chicago
Paul A. Monach, MD, PhD, Boston

Chester V. Oddis, MD, Pittsburgh
Andras Perl, MD, PhD, Syracuse
Janet E. Pope, MD, MPH, FRCPC, London, Ontario
Timothy R. D. J. Radstake, MD, PhD, Utrecht
William Robinson, MD, PhD, Stanford
Nan Shen, MD, Shanghai
Ronald van Vollenhoven, MD, PhD, Amsterdam
Fredrick M. Wigley, MD, Baltimore

Tatsuya Atsumi, MD, PhD, Sapporo
Charles Auffray, PhD, Lyon
Dominique Baeten, MD, PhD, Amsterdam
André Ballesteros-Tato, PhD, Birmingham
Lorenzo Beretta, MD, Milan
Bryce A. Binstadt, MD, PhD, Minneapolis
Jaime Calvo-Alen, MD, Vitoria
Scott Canna, MD, Pittsburgh
Andrew P. Cope, MD, PhD, London

Niek de Vries, MD, PhD, Amsterdam
Jörg H. W. Distler, MD, Erlangen
Liana Fraenkel, MD, MPH, New Haven
Erica Herzog, MD, PhD, New Haven
Hui-Chen Hsu, PhD, Birmingham
Mariana J. Kaplan, MD, Bethesda
Jonathan Kay, MD, Worcester
Steven H. Kleinstein, PhD, New Haven
Dwight H. Kono, MD, La Jolla

Martin A. Kriegel, MD, PhD, New Haven
Francis Lee, MD, PhD, New Haven
Sang-Il Lee, MD, PhD, Jinju
Bing Lu, PhD, Boston
Tony R. Merriman, PhD, Otago
Yukinori Okada, MD, PhD, Osaka
John S. Reach Jr., MSc, MD, New Haven
Raghunatha Yammani, PhD, Winston-Salem
Kazuki Yoshida, MD, MPH, MS, Boston

Sharad Lakhanpal, MBBS, Dallas, President
David I. Daikh, MD, PhD, San Francisco, President- Elect

Paula Marchetta, MD, MBA, New York, Treasurer
Ellen M. Gravallese, MD, Worcester, Secretary
Mark Andrejeski, Atlanta, Executive Vice-President