About Ardea Biosciences

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Fernando Perez-Ruiz, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Head of the Rheumatology Division at the Hospital de Cruces in Vizcaya, Spain. He received his medical degree from the Basque Country University in Bilbao, Spain, and a PhD from Barcelona University, Spain. Board-certified in Rheumatology, Dr. Perez-Ruiz is a member of the American College of Rheumatology and Spanish Society for Rheumatology and has collaborated with the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Task Force for Gout and with the Outcome Measures for Rheumatic Arthritis Clinical Trials (OMERACT) group for chronic gout. He serves on the editorial boards of Arthritis Rheumatism (Care & Research), Bone Joint Spine, and Reumatologia Clinica and serves as a reviewer for more than 20 international journals. His research interests include crystal-induced arthritis, especially gout, but he has also investigated lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. Dr. Perez-Ruiz has published more than 80 articles on topics related to rheumatology, and most frequently to hyperuricemia and gout.