Contributors
Ilias Alevizos SjšgrenÕs Syndrome Clinic, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, MD, USA, alvizosi@nidcr.nih.gov
Elaine Alexander SjšgrenÕs Syndrome Foundation Medical and ScientiÞc Advisory Board, San Diego, CA, USA, elaine@easandiego.com
Jacqui E. Allen Department of Otolaryngology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, jacquieallen@yahoo.com
Chiara Baldini Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, chiara.baldini@gmail.com
Peter C. Belafsky The Center for Voice and Swallowing, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, pbelafsky@sbcglobal.net
Julius Birnbaum Division of Rheumatology, The Jerome L. Greene SjšgrenÕs Syndrome Center, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA, jbirnba2@jhmi.edu
Stefano Bombardieri Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, s.bombardieri@int.med.unipi.it
Hendrika Bootsma Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands, h.bootsma@reuma.umcg.nl
Simon J. Bowman Department of Rheumatology, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, England, simon.bowman@uhb.nhs.uk
Steven E. Carsons SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA; Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA, Scarsons@winthrop.org
Seunghee Cha Department of Oral Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL, USA; Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL, USA, SCHA@dental.uß.edu
Edward K.L. Chan Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL, USA, echan@uß.edu
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John A. Chiorini Department of Molecular Physiology and Therapeutics
Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda,
MD, USA, jchiorin@mail.nih.gov
Philip L. Cohen Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA, philco@temple.edu
Debashish Danda Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, debashishdandacmc@hotmail.com
Nicolas Delaleu Broegelmann Research Laboratory, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Rheumatology Clinic, Scripps Memorial Hospital and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA, USA, nicolas.delaleu@gades.uib.no
Carla M. Fox Rheumatology Clinic, Scripps Memorial Hospital and
Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA, USA, carlafoxrn@mac.com
Robert I. Fox Rheumatology Clinic, Scripps Memorial Hospital and
Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA, USA, robertfoxmd@mac.com
Jonn Terje Geitung Haraldsplass Deaconess University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, jtgeit@online.no; jonn.terje.geitung@haraldsplass.no
Tom Gordon Department of Immunology, Flinders Medical Center,
Flinders, Australia, t.gordon@ßinders.edu.au
Jacques-Eric Gottenberg Centre de Recherche BiomŽdical Strasbourgeois (CRBS), H™pitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, UniversitŽ de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, jacques-eric.gottenberg@chru-strasbourg.fr
Katherine Morland Hammitt SjšgrenÕs Syndrome Foundation,
Lynchburg, VA, USA, khammitt@sjogrens.org
John B. Harley Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati ChildrenÕs Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, john.Harley@cchmc.org
Jing He Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, PeopleÕs Hospital, Peking University Medical School, Beijing, China, hejing_1105@yahoo.com
Gustaaf W. van Imhoff Department of Hematology, University of
Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; University Medical Center,
Groningen, The Netherlands, g.w.van.imhoff@int.umcg.nl
Malin V. Jonsson Institute of Medicine - Section for Rheumatology,
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, malin.jonsson@odont.uib.no
Roland Jonsson Broegelmann Research Laboratory, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Department of Rheumatology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, roland.jonsson@gades.uib.no
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Yrjö T. Konttinen Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; ORTON Orthopaedic Hospital of the ORTON Foundation, Helsinki, Finland; COXA Hospital for the Joint Replacement, Tampere, Finland, yrjo.konttinen@helsinki.Þ
Katja Koskenpato Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, katja.koskenpato@helsinki.Þ
Chak-sing Lau Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology,
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong, China, cslau@hku.hk
Zhan-Guo Li Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, PeopleÕs Hospital, Peking University Medical School, Beijing, China, zgli98@yahoo.com
Menelaos N. Manoussakis Department of Pathophysiology, School of
Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, menman@med.uoa.gr
Xavier Mariette Assistance Publique-H™pitaux de Paris (AP-HP), H™pital Bic•tre, Institut Pour la SantŽ et la Recherche MŽdicale (INSERM) U 1012, UniversitŽ Paris-Sud 11, Le Kremlin Bic•tre, France, xavier.mariette@bct.aphp.fr
Mihaela C. Marthinussen Section for Cariology, Department of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Bergen, mihaela.cuida@iko.uib.no
Paul E. Michelson Eye Care of La Jolla, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA, USA; UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA, pmichel2@san.rr.com
Ramnath Misra Department of Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, rnmisra2000@gmail.com
Kathy L. Moser Arthritis and Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical
Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA, moserk@omrf.org
Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos Department of Pathophysiology, School of
Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, hmoutsop@med.uoa.gr
Yoichi Nakagawa Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine, Yokohama, Japan, nakagawa-y@tsurumi-u.ac.jp
Nikolay P. Nikolov SjšgrenÕs Syndrome Clinic, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, MD, USA, nikolovn@mail.nih.gov
Kazuhisa Nozawa Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine,
Urayasu Hospital Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan; Institute for
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Environment and Gender SpeciÞc Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate
School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan; Department of Rheumatology, Juntendo
Urayasu Hospital, Chiba, Japan, k-nozawa@juntendo.ac.jp
Sapan Pandya Department of Rheumatology, Vedanta Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad, India, sapancpandya@yahoo.com
Stephen C. Pflugfelder Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, stevenp@bcm.edu
Justin Pijpe Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Catharina
Hospital Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; University Medical
Center, Groningen, The Netherlands, j.pijpe@gmail.com
Raimo Pöllänen Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, raimo.pollanen@helsinki.Þ
Alberto Vivó Porcar Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, siralbertvivoporcar@gmail.com
Pauliina Porola Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, pauliina.porola@helsinki.Þ
Beata D. Przybyla Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AK, USA,
BDPrzybyla@uams.edu
Manuel Ramos-Casals Sjšgren Syndrome Research Group (AGAUR),
Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, mramos@clinic.ub.es
Philippe Ravaud Centre dÕEpidomiologie Clinique, INSERM U738,
H™pital Hotel Dieu, Paris, France, philippe.ravaud@htd.aphp.fr
Maureen Rischmueller Department of Rheumatology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital/University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, maureen.rischmueller@health.sa.gov.au
María Lorés Rodriguez Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, maria.lores.rodriguez@gmail.com
John G. Routsias Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine,
University of Athens, Athens, Greece, jroutsias@med.uoa.gr
Ichiro Saito Department of Pathology, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine, Yokohama, Japan, saito-i@tsurumi-u.ac.jp
Minoru Satoh Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology,
Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;
Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,
Minoru.Satoh@medicine.uß.edu
Raphaèle Seror Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, H™pital Bic•tre,
Department of Rheumatology, Institut Pour la SantŽ et la Recherche
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MŽdicale (INSERM) U 802, UniversitŽ Paris-Sud 11, Le Kremlin Bic•tre,
France, raphaele.se@gmail.com
Yehuda Shoenfeld Department of Medicine ÒBÓ and Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, shoenfel@tau.ac.il
Kathrine Skarstein Broegelmann Research Laboratory, Department
of Immunology, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, kathrine.skarstein@gades.uib.no
Michelle Spaan Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, michelle.spaan@hotmail.com
Vasily Stegaev Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki
University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, vasily.stegaev@helsinki.Þ
Michael E. Stern Inßammation Research Program, Allergan, Inc., Irvine,
CA, USA, stern_michael@allergan.com
John H. Stone Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, jhstone@partners.org
Yoshinari Takasaki Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, tyoshi@juntendo.ac.jp
Elke Theander Skane University Hospital Malmš, Malmš, Sweden, elke.theander@med.lu.se
Moshe Tishler Department of Medicine ÒBÓ, Asaf Harofe Medical
Center, ZeriÞn, Israel 70300, tishlerm@netvision.net.il
Pamela Traisak Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pammy1000@hotmail.com
Kazuo Tsubota Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, tsubota@z3.keio.jp
Athanasios G. Tzioufas Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, agtzi@med.uoa.gr
Liisa Virkki Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki
University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, liisa.m.virkki@helsinki.Þ
Claudio Vitali Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal
Medicine, Villamarina Hospital, Piombino, Italy, c.vitali@yahoo.it
Frederick B. Vivino Division of Rheumatology, Penn Presbyterian
Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA, USA, frederick.vivino@uphs.upenn.edu
Frank A. Wollheim Lund University Hospital SUS, Lund, Sweden, frank.wollheim@med.lu.se
Part I
Introduction