Jiři Vencovský

Jiří Vencovský is Professor of Internal Medicine at the Institute of Rheumatology and the Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. He is a former long-standing Chairman of the Czech Society of Rheumatology and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Czech Rheumatology. For six years, he served as Treasurer of the Foundation for Research in Rheumatology (FOREUM) and is currently a member of the FOREUM Board of Trustees. His main research interests include idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, autoantibodies in rheumatic diseases, and the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. He is one of the founding members of MyoNet and its registry and has organized several international meetings in this field, most notably the 4th Global Conference on Myositis (GCOM) held in 2022