Priv.-Doz. Dr. Peter Mandl

Priv.-Doz. Peter Mandl MD, PhD is a consultant at the Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria, a member of the EULAR Network of Imaging Research Centers. After graduating with honors from Semmelweis University, Budapest he completed his doctorate in functional neuroscience with honors at the Nathan Kline Institute in Orangeburg, New York and at Semmelweis University, Budapest. His major research interests include the use of imaging for diagnosing, monitoring and predicting rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases, in particular the utility of ultrasound for the monitoring of inflammation and structural changes in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and osteoarthritis. He is a member of the EULAR Standing Committee of Musculoskeletal Imaging, a prior OMERACT Fellow of the Ultrasound Taskforce, and convenor of several EULAR Taskforces. Dr. Mandl is associate editor of BMC Medical Imaging and Frontiers in Medicine: Rheumatology and has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, several books and book chapters. He has organized and served on the faculty of several national and international musculoskeletal ultrasound courses and workshops. Dr. Mandl is the past chairman of EMEUNET, the European Network of Emerging Rheumatologists within EULAR and served on the EULAR Executive Committee & Scientific Committees in 2012-2013.