Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are delighted to welcome you to the 8^th Annual Meeting of The Lupus Academy† and hope you will find it a rich, engaging, informative and rewarding environment in which you can develop both your knowledge of managing lupus and exchange ideas with your peers.

The Lupus Academy is committed to continuing the development of high quality educational programmes, focused on providing insightful and clinically relevant content through both live meetings and eLearning environments. With this, we aim to support you as you strive to provide best-in-class patient care and improve patient outcomes in lupus.

This Annual Meeting, which has been certified for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit, aims to provide latest insights into advances in global research and clinical practice in lupus and allied diseases. Delegate feedback from our previous annual meetings continues to guide us in selecting the topics and speakers you need to ensure translation of treatment advances into your clinical practice.

The scientific component of this programme, developed by our Steering Committee of 12 international experts in lupus, is designed to create a highly interactive forum through which we can all develop a logical approach to the management of lupus worldwide.

This meeting will give you the opportunity to meet like-minded clinicians and scientists and, through the sharing of clinical and scientific experience, develop your knowledge in this fast moving therapeutic area.

We sincerely hope that this meeting will provide you with new ideas for your clinical work, enriched enthusiasm for collaborative research, and fruitful discussions with your colleagues who care for patients with lupus.

We look forward to meeting and talking with you here in Warsaw.

With kind regards,

The Lupus Academy Steering Committee