ADVANCED RHEUMATOLOGY

ADVANCED RHEUMATOLOGY & BOARD REVIEW COURSE
AGENDA
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013
7:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:15
Optional AM Workshops on Clinical Databases and
Research in the Office Setting
1) Yusuf Yazici, MD – Assessment of Rheumatoid
Arthritis Outcomes and Monitoring in Routine Care
2) Jonathan Samuels, MD – Ultrasound –
A Hands-On Workshop
8:15 Welcome - Steven B. Abramson, MD
Inflammatory Arthritis
Moderators: Michael J. Colin, MD and Gary E. Solomon, MD
8:30 GERALD WEISSMANN LECTURE IN
RHEUMATOLOGY
Pathogenesis of RA
Iain B. McInnes, FRCP, PhD, FRSE
9:05 Genetics and Autoantibodies in RA
Gregg J. Silverman, MD
10:15 Coffee Break
10:30 Overview of Bone Biology in Inflammatory Arthritis
Bruce N. Cronstein, MD
11:05 Current Approaches and New Developments in
Psoriatic Arthritis
Christopher T. Ritchlin, MD, MPH
11:40 Lunch Break
11:40
Meet the Professor Optional Lunchtime Workshop
3) Joel M. Kremer, MD - Where Should Newer
Treatment Options Fit into Our Treatment Paradigm?
4) Christopher T. Ritchlin, MD, MPH - Approach to the
PSA Patient with Inadequate Response to TNF
Antagonists
5) Jonathan Kay, MD - Rheumatoid Arthritis:
Challenging Cases
6) Stephen A. Paget, MD - The Vasculitides and their
Differential Diagnosis
Therapy
Moderators: Sicy H. Lee, MD and Stephen A. Smiles, MD
1:00pm Treating RA after the First Anti-TNF Failure;
Considering the Options
Joel M. Kremer, MD
1:35 Rheumatoid Arthritis: Co-morbidities and Adverse
Drug Events
Jeffrey D. Greenberg, MD, MPH
2:10 ANCA Positive and Negative Vasculitis
Yusuf Yazici, MD
2:45 Coffee Break
3:00 Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis:
Their Immunological Origin and Treatment
Paradigms that Arise from Them
Stephen A. Paget, MD
3:35 Challenges to the Rheumatologist: Polychondritis,
Amyloidosis, Nephrogenic Fibrosing Syndrome
Jonathan Kay, MD
4:10 Panel Discussion
Chair: Steven B. Abramson, MD
Panelists: Jonathan Kay, MD, Joel M. Kremer, MD
and Christopher T. Ritchlin, MD, MPH
5:00pm Adjourn and Reception
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013
7:15am Continental Breakfast
7:30
Optional AM Workshops on Clinical Databases and
Research in the Office Setting
7) Jill P. Buyon, MD – BILAG and SLEDAI Scoring in
Lupus Trials
8) Soumya M. Reddy, MD – Outcome Measures in a
Psoriatic Arthritis Research Registry
Updates in Lupus: Bench to Bedside and Back, Part I
Moderators: H. Michael Belmont, MD and Peter M. Izmirly, MD
8:30 Year in Review SLE: Basic Science of SLE
Mary K. Crow, MD
9:05 Genetic Contributions to SLE and SS:
Focus on Interferon
Timothy B. Niewold, MD
9:40 Lupus Nephritis: ACR Guidelines and Beyond
Brad H. Rovin, MD
10:15 Coffee Break
10:30 New Treatment Strategy for Difficult Raynauds
Andrew G. Franks, Jr., MD
11:05 Bedside to Bench? What can Treatment Teach
us about Biology?
Joan T. Merrill, MD
11:40 Lunch Break
11:40
Meet the Professor Optional Lunchtime Workshop
9) Andrew G. Franks, Jr., MD - Cutaneous Lupus:
Treatment Update 2013
10) Joan T. Merrill, MD - Scary Lupus
11) Michael D. Lockshin, MD - aPL in Different
Settings
Updates in Lupus/Scleroderma: Bench to Bedside
and Back, Part II
Moderators: Anca Dinu Askanase, MD, MPH
and Amit Saxena, MD
1:00pm Why We Need New Medications for Lupus
Michelle A. Petri, MD, MPH
1:35 Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome:
Pathogenesis and Approaches
Michael D. Lockshin, MD
2:10 Linking Bench to Bedside in Addressing the
Challenges of Pregnancy Management in Lupus
and Sjögren’s Syndrome
Jill P. Buyon, MD
2:45 Coffee Break
3:00 Sjögren’s Syndrome and Undifferentiated Arthritis
Syndromes
Ann L. Parke, MD
3:35 Scleroderma
Fredrick M. Wigley, MD
4:10 Panel Discussion
Chair: Jill P. Buyon, MD
Panelists: H. Michael Belmont, MD,
Michael D. Lockshin, MD, Joan T. Merrill, MD,
Timothy B. Niewold, MD and Fredrick M. Wigley, MD
5:00pm Adjourn
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2013
8:00am Continental Breakfast
Updates in Musculoskeletel Disease I
Moderators: Mark A. Eberle, MD and Pamela B. Rosenthal, MD
8:30 Autoinflammatory Diseases
Jonathan Samuels, MD
9:05 Gout: The Year In Review
Michael H. Pillinger, MD
9:40 IRA GOLDSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Infectious Etiologies of Rheumatic Disease
Leonard H. Calabrese, DO
10:15 Coffee Break
10:30 Juvenile Arthritis
Philip J. Kahn, MD
11:05 Paraneoplastic Rheumatic Diseases
Hal Mitnick, MD
11:45 Fibromyalgia and Pain
Leslie J. Crofford, MD
12:15pm Lunch
Updates in Musculoskeletal Disease II
Moderators: Daria B. Crittenden, MD and Amit Saxena, MD
1:15 Pathogenesis and Treatment of Osteoarthritis
Steven B. Abramson, MD
1:45 Clinical Year in Review: Osteoporosis
Stephen Honig, MD, MSc
2:15 Inflammatory Myositis
Robert L. Wortmann, MD
2:45 Non-inflammatory Myopathies
Robert L. Wortmann, MD
3:15 Treatment of RA: Treating to Target and Health
Quality Assessments
Theodore Pincus, MD
3:45pm Adjourn