Ghent University Hospital
Gent, Belgium
Vanessa Smith is Head of Clinics at the Ghent University Hospital since 2011 and Full Professor of Rheumatology at the Ghent University since 2014.
Prof. Smith is a member of the Steering committee of the European Reference Network on Rare Connective tissue and musculoskeletal diseases (ERN- ReCONNET) since 2016 and executive board member of ERN- ReCONNET as coordinator of systemic sclerosis (SSc) since 2017. She serves as Belgian national expert contact point for Health Authorities and is the Chair of the Flemish network for rare connective tissue diseases.
Prof. Smith was awarded the 2011 Belgian Cristina Pivetta prize for “Contribution to treatment strategies and diagnostic algorithms for patients with SSc” and received several grants from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders for her research on capillaroscopy/SSc.
Prof. Smith currently holds a position as Senior Clinical Investigator of the Research Foundation – Flanders, and is the chair of the EULAR study group on Microcirculation in Rheumatic diseases. She is an organizing/scientific board member of the 2nd up the 12th EULAR courses on capillaroscopy and chairs the EULAR network of training and research, Ghent center for microcirculatory imaging. Prof. Smith is member of the scientific committee of the bi-annually SSc World Congress (since 2020).
At the same time, Prof. Smith is co-Editor of several books, as well as co-author of book chapters and several manuscripts on SSc/microcirculation.
28T19: Abstracts: Immunological Complications of Medical Therapy
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Central Time
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