Professor A. V. Ramanan, FRCPCH, FRCP, is a Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK. Prof.Ramanan has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and authored chapters in textbooks. He is Associate Editor for the Archives of Diseases in Childhood and in the Editorial Board of Rheumatology. He is the Associate Director of UK's only Paediatric Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre.