Simone Parisi is a Consultant Rheumatologist at University Hospital “Città della Salute e della Scienza”, Turin, Italy. His major research interests include arthritis, connective tissue diseases, vasculitis, and imaging. He is a member of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Study Group of the Italian Society of Rheumatology, and he is also a Principal Investigator and SubInvestigator in several randomized controlled trials of stage II-III-IV.