Program Book - Confex

MONDAY
November 7, 2011
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 7 University of Utah School of Medicine,
SLC, UT, 8 Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, 9 Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 10 University of Texas Health
Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 11 Georgetown Univ
Medical Center, Washington, DC, 12 Washington
5:30 pm
1717. Validation of Potential Classification Criteria for Systemic
Sclerosis
Sindhu R. Johnson 1 , Jaap Fransen 2 , Dinesh Khanna 3 , Thomas A.
Medsger 4 , Christine A. Peschken 5 , Patricia Carreira 6 , Gabriela
Riemekasten 7 , Alan G. Tyndall 8 , Marco Matucci-Cerinic 9 , Murray
Baron 10 , Frank Van den Hoogen 11 and Janet E. Pope 12 , 1 Toronto
Western and Mt. Sinai Hospitals, University of Toronto, Toronto,
ON, 2 The Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre,
Nijmegen, Netherlands, 3 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
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Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 5 University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, MB, 6 Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid,
Spain, 7 Charité University Hospital, German Rheumatology
Research Center, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany, 8 University
of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 9 University of Florence, Firenze,
Italy, 10 Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, 11 Nijmegen,
Netherlands, 12 St. Joseph’s Health Care, University of Western
Ontario, London, ON
5:45 pm
1718. Ultrasonographic Hand Features in Systemic Sclerosis and
Correlates with Clinical, Biological and Radiographic Findings
Muriel Elhai 1 , Henri Guerini 2 , Ramin Bazeli 2 , Jerome Avouac 1 ,
Veronique Freire 2 , jean-Luc Drape 3 , Andre Kahan 1 and Yannick
Allanore 1 , 1 Rheumatology A, Paris Descartes University, Cochin
Hospital, APHP, Paris, France, Paris, France, 2 Radiology B, Paris
Descartes University, Cochin Hospital, APHP, Paris, France, Paris,
France, 3 Paris Descartes University, Radiology B department,
Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
ACR MEET THE PROFESSOR SESSIONS
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Admission to the Meet the Professor sessions requires a separate
registration and ticket. To verify which session you registered
for – check the registration code on your ticket matches the code
listed below in parentheses. If you are interested in participating
in one of these sessions or exchanging your ticket, visit the
ACR registration desk to check space availability. View the
session overview and learning objectives on MY ACR at www.
rheumatology.org/annual.
*Sessions denoted with an asterisk were sold out as of
September 12.
W187a
Adult Inflammatory Myopathy (051)
Speaker: Mary E. Cronin, MD; Medical College of Wisconsin;
Milwaukee, WI
W185d
Central Nervous System Vasculitis (052)
Speaker: Rula Hajj-Ali, MD; Cleveland Clinic Foundation;
Cleveland, OH
W184d
Controversies in Sjögren’s Syndrome (053)
Speaker: Alan N. Baer, MD; Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore,
MD
W186c
Fibromyalgia (054) PM
Speaker: Manuel Martinez-Lavin, MD; National Cardiology
Institute; Mexico City, Mexico
W187c
Inflammatory Eye Disease/Uveitis (055)
Speaker: James T. Rosenbaum, MD; Oregon Health & Science
University; Portland, OR
W185a
Pediatric Systemic Lupus (056) P
Speaker: ML Becker, MD, MSCE; Children’s Mercy Hospital;
Kansas City, MO
W185bc
Reactive Arthritis: An Update (057)
Speaker: Atul A. Deodhar, MD; Oregon Health & Science
University; Portland, OR
W187b
*Rheumatoid Arthritis: Biological Agents (058)
Speaker: Larry W. Moreland, MD; University of Pittsburgh;
Pittsburgh, PA
W186a
*Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Novel Treatments
(059)
Speaker: Robert G. Lahita, MD, PhD; Newark Beth Israel
Hospital; Newark, NJ
W186b
Vasculitis: An Update (060)
Speaker: Paul A. Monach, MD, PhD; Boston University; Boston,
MA
ACR SPECIAL SESSIONS
4:30 - 6:00 pm
W470b
ILAR Global Health Project P/C
Moderator: Luis R. Espinoza, MD; Louisiana State University
Medical Center; New Orleans, LA
4:30 pm
ILAR: Past, Present and Future
Adewale O. Adebajo, MD; Academic Rheumatology Group, D;
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Mark Andrejeski; Executive Vice President, American College of
Rheumatology; Atlanta, GA
Luis R. Espinoza, MD; Louisiana State University Medical Center;
New Orleans, LA
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