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Rheumatology News and Skin Disease Education Present
Perspectives in Rheumatic Diseases: Meeting the Clinical Challenge
Approved for 11 AMA/PRA Credits
Jointly Sponsored by the Elsevier Office Of CME

Conference Agenda

Saturday, December 6, 2008

6:30 am -7:30 am  Possible Satellite Symposium

7:00 am – 7:25 am

Registration
7:25 am – 7:30 am Welcome
Daniel E. Furst, MD and Kenneth B. Gordon, MD
7:30 am – 8:00 am Autoimmunity Unbound:
New Insights into the Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Daniel E. Furst, MD
David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles

8:00 am – 8:30 am

What’s Ahead:
New Therapies for theTreatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Faculty pending
8:30 am – 9:00 am New Frontiers:
Therapeutic Options in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Charles H. Spencer, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital/Ohio State University
9:00 am – 9:30 am Panel Discussion
9:30 am – 10:00 am MRI in Rheumatology
Norman B. Gaylis, MD
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break and Visit Exhibits
10:30 am – 11:00 am Assessing Cardiac Complications in Connective Tissue Diseases
David Edmundowicz, MDUniversity of Pittsburgh
11:00 am – 11:30 am New Advances in the Treatment Options in SLE
Susan Manzi, MD, MPHUniversity of Pittsburgh
11:30 am – 12:00 pm Autoimmune Threats to Kidney Function
Jonathan Ashley Jefferson, MD, MRCP
University of Washington
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Panel Discussion
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch and Possible Satellite Symposium
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Clinical Manifestations and Complications of Systemic Scleroderma
Daniel E. Furst, MD
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Gout: What’s Ahead in Disease Management
Robert L. Wortmann, MD
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm New Paradigms in Managing and Treating Ankylosing Spondylitis
Faculty Pending
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis:
Challenges of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Sunanda V. Kane, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Panel Discussion
4:00 pm SESSION ENDS

Sunday, December 7, 2008

6:30-7:30AM Possible Satellite Symposium
7:25 am – 7:30 am Welcome
Daniel E. Furst, MD and Kenneth B. Gordon, MD
7:30 am – 8:00 am More Than Skin Deep: Understanding and Managing the Patient With Psoriasis
Kenneth B. Gordon, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
8:00 am – 8:30 am Therapeutic Advances in the Treatment of Psoriatic Arthritis
Christopher T. Ritchlin, MD
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
8:30 am – 9:00 am Panel Discussion
9:00 am – 9:30 am Rashes, Erythema, and Spots: Common Skin Disorders
Michael D. Tharp, MD
Rush University Medical Center
9:30 am – 10:00 am Break
10:00 am – 10:30 am Weird and Worrisome: Uncommon Skin Diseases
10:30 am – 11:30 am Panel Discussion:
Collaborative Care of Patients with Immunologic-Based Diseases:
A Rheumatology/Dermatology Perspective
Daniel E. Furst, MD, Moderator
Kenneth B. Gordon, MD
Christopher T. Ritchlin, MD

11:30 am

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