Primary Job Title Scientific Advisory Board Primary Organization 
Anthera Pharmaceuticals
Gender Female
Sandra Navarra is a professor and head of Rheumatology at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and consultant Rheumatologist at St. Luke’s Medical Center in the Philippines.
She served as secretary-general, head of the Education Committee and chaired the special interest group on systemic lupus erythematosus of the Asia Pacific League of
Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR).
She founded the Arthritis Care and Research Foundation of the Philippines, where she is currently Scientific Programs Director, and the Lupus Foundation of the Philippines, where she served as medical director.
Currently president and CEO of the Rheumatology Educational Trust Foundation (RETFI), she is the prime mover of the Lupus Inspired Advocacy (LUISA) Project for lupus education and research, and the People Empowerment for Arthritis and Lupus (PEARL) Movement for lay education programmes. Professor Navarra has organised several national and regional educational meetings including the Ten Topics in Rheumatology – Asia in 2009, and the Asian Lupus Summit held in November 2012 in Manila, Philippines.
She is an experienced clinical trials investigator and has received several university and national awards for education and research.
