Hilde Berner Hammer, PhD 
            
          
            
         
         
            Senior consultant, PhD, at Dept. of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet hospital, Oslo, Norway. Main US interest is in musculoskeletal diseases. Scientific work including US scoring of synovitis in RA patients, general US studies of RA, SpA and gout patients. In charge of the US education of rheumatologists in Norway, member of the EULAR faculty of US courses, member of the EULAR imaging group and member of several OMERACT groups on US. Participated in the faculty of a high number of US courses around the world during the last ten years.