Andrea Doria is Professor of Rheumatology and Head of the Rheumatology Unit and Unit of Connective Tissue Disease and Rare Rheumatic Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Italy. He is also Director of Postgraduate School on Rheumatology of University of Padua.
Professor Doria received his medical degree and qualification in Rheumatology from the University of Padua. He was Council member of the Italian College of Rheumatology (CRO) between 1999 and 2005 and a Council member of the Italian Society of Rheumatology (SIR) from 2007 to 2010 and from 2013 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2020. In 2016 he founded the European Lupus Society (SLEuro) and was the first President of the Executive Committee.
Professor Doria has organised over ten international conferences on autoimmunity and was involved as “expert” in the EUropean League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Standing Committee for the development of clinical and therapeutic recommendations. In 2016 he founded the European Lupus Society (SLEuro) and was the first President of the Executive Committee. He was the Chair of the 10th European Lupus Meeting, held in Venice (Italy) 5–8th October 2016, and he will be the Chair of the 14th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus which will be held in Venice (Italy) from 6th to 9th October 2021.
Professor Doria is on the Editorial Boards of several rheumatology and immunology journals, including Lupus, Autoimmunity, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Autoimmunity Reviews, Journal of Autoimmunity, Experimental Biology and Medicine, Rheumatology Reports, Journal Autoimmunity Highlights and Reumatismo (the official Journal of Italian Society of Rheumatology). He has authored over 400 ISI publications on SLE and other connective tissue diseases.