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Welcome to the Lupus Forum. The Lupus Forum is an educational website developed under the auspices of the University of Leeds and is dedicated to the dissemination of the latest developments in the field of lupus. It provides continuing medical education to clinicians around the globe to facilitate greater understanding of lupus, its treatments, and clinical practice.

Lupus Forum content is free from commercial bias, and feature leading experts sharing their knowledge and experience in the form of video tutorials.

Membership of the Lupus Forum is free to everyone. Register as a member and have unlimited free access to all of the materials contained within the site.

Lupus Europe, now available on the useful links page

NEW Monthly literature search podcasts – available now

Steering Committee members Professor Ed Vital, who is a Professor in Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, is joined by Professor Richard Furie, who is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the Department of Medicine, Northwell Health, New York, and Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and Professor Liz Lightstone, from the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith, London, on the latest Lupus Forum podcast. Together, they discuss defining ANA-associated arthritis and proposing new basket trial groupings, as well as evaluating the achievement of EULAR/ERA-EDTA treatment targets in lupus nephritis and the need for therapy adjustments.