In the third Young PARE podcast episode, Tanita-Christina Wilhelmer discusses with Sladjana Rumpl Tunjic different paths to fulfilling professional careers.  How do you manage your RMD when working full-time? Why is it sometimes not possible to work 100%? How can you find a work-life balance? And why is it important to ask for help? 

In the second Young PARE podcast, Caroline Kirsten and Ilaria Bini discuss with host Tanita-Christina Wilhelmer the body image while coping with RMDs, and how it influences various relationships, friendships and intimacy. How are tattoos connected with RMDs? Find out in this episode!

This episode features the EULAR PARE Outstanding Achievement Award winner 2023. EULAR PARE meets with Dieter Wiek from Germany, who is the first person to be awarded with this important recognition for his outstanding work for EULAR and commitment as a volunteer for more than a decade. An inspiration to all volunteers. 

This episode features a brand new Young PARE Podcast series focusing on young people living with RMDs. Sophia Marantidou from Greece and Giovanni Mascarino from Italy, who both received the RMD diagnosis in their childhood, discuss with our host Tanita-Christina Wilhelmer growing up with an RMD. 

This episode features a new series within the EULAR PARE Podcast where EULAR PARE meets with representatives of RMD patient organisations outside of Europe. We start with South Africa and the African continent in general, where we will hear from Maranda van Dam, Chairperson of the Axial Spondyloarthritis Association of South Africa, what challenges people with RMDs are facing and what patient organisations are doing to improve their quality of life. Maranda`s initiative won the PARE Best Practice Award at the EULAR PARE Conference 2022.

Lene Mandrup Thomsen (Danish Rheumatism Association) and Jeanette Andersen (Lupus Denmark) discuss how their organisations have created a programme for patient education after diagnosis called “Know Your Lupus” and how this has helped patients manage their disease.

EULAR Past-President, Iain McInnes, and EULAR PARE Vice President, Elsa Mateus, discuss EULAR's biggest achievements over the years, and what we can expect for the future of rheumatology and the organisation, in this very special episode celebrating a momentous occasion - EULAR's 75th Anniversary!

Simon Stones (patient advocate from the UK) and Alice Grosjean (Swiss League Against Rheumatism) discuss the meaning and importance of the EULAR Congress to the PARE member organisations but also to the patient representatives themselves.

Nele Caeyers and Diederik De Cock from Belgium's patient organisation ReumaNet talk about peer mentoring: what is it, how ReumaNet has implemented peer mentoring programmes in their country, as well as some lessons learned from this experience.

This episode initiates a new series within the EULAR PARE Podcast where we aim to get to know the European organisations that collaborate with EULAR PARE a little better. Simona Bellagambi and Ilaria Galetti from EURORDIS share its history, connection to EULAR PARE and the excellent work that they do for people with rare diseases in Europe, including people with RMDs.