1. Sinead Brophy is a reader at the College of Medicine, Swansea University (UK) and DECIPHer (Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement; UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health Research). She has worked in the field of chronic disease and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) for more than 15 years and has more than 65 peer-reviewed papers in this area.
2. Stefan Siebert is a Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology at the University of Glasgow (UK), and is also an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. His clinical and research interests are AS and spondyloarthritis.
3. Helen Davies is currently a Senior Research Officer in the Centre of Health Information, Research and Evaluation at the College of Medicine, Swansea University. Her research interest is in chronic disease, in particular AS. Currently she is managing a program of research in AS with a focus on fatigue, and investigating potential interventions to help alleviate fatigue in AS.