Anne Grete Semb, MD, PhD is a senior consultant cardiologist, the founderand leader of a Preventive Cardio-Rheuma Clinic, the leader of the cardiovascular-rheuma research team at Diakonhjemmet hospital, Oslo, Norway and has 8 PhD students. She is a regular reviewer for several international rheumatology and cardiology journals. She has published more than 200 original scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference abstracts. She has led 3 clinical trials/studies, participated in 17 clinical trials/studies, whereas 13 trials/studies have been investigator initiated. She is a member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)Working Group of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Drug Therapy. She is a member of the Eular task force group for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management in Rheumatic Diseases in 2010 and 2015, one of the founders of and now the administrative leader of the A TransAtlantic Cardiovascular risk Consortium for Rheumatoid Arthritis (ATACC-RA).