2022 SPARTAN Annual Meeting

COVID-19 Protocols
Masking (except when actively eating/drinking or speaking at a microphone) and Proof of Vaccination (or a negative test within 24 hours of arrival) will be required in Madison. We will have KN95 masks and Rapid Tests available.

The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
1 W. Dayton St. | Madison, WI 53703
Our room block is full – please contact the hotel directly to make reservations. (800) 356-8293

SPARTAN members and all Trainees will be reimbursed according to our Meeting Reimbursement Policy.

Attend the Annual Meeting in Madison or virtually.

Annual Meeting—Schedule of Events

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Annual Reception—Friday, April 29

Featuring James Louie, MD presentation Studying Color, Line and Composition from Artists with Arthritis – Renoir, Toulouse Lautrec, Klee, Khan and Rasner
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State Street, Madison, WI 53703 (walking distance from the hotel)

Thursday, April 28

(Central Daylight Time)

5:00-7:00 PM

Welcome Reception and Abstract Poster Hall

Friday, April 29

(Central Daylight Time)

8:00-8:15 AM	Welcome	Judith Smith, MD, PhD SPARTAN Chair University of Wisconsin, Madison
8:15-8:20 AM	2022 Research Career Achievement Award Presentation to James Rosenbaum, MD	Atul Deodhar, MD Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
8:20-9:30 AM	Year in Review Moderators: Atul Deodhar, MD and Mohamad Bittar, MD
	Basic Science	Joerg Ermann, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
	Clinical Research Non-trial	Mark Hwang, MD, MS The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
	Clinical Trials	Marina Magrey, MD University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland
9:30-9:40 AM	BREAK
9:40-10:50 AM	Scientific Session: Pain Moderators: Philip Mease, MD and Jessica Walsh, MD
	Mechanistic Studies in Pain	Anne-Marie Malfait, MD, PhD Rush University, Chicago
	Central Pain Sensitization in axSpA	Yvonne Lee, MD, MMSc Northwestern University, Chicago
	Inflammatory Back Pain (A Critical Look at the Concept and Utility)	Karl Gaffney, MB, BCh, BAO Hons, FRCPI, FRCP The Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital Norwich, UK
10:50-11:00 AM	Q & A
11:00-11:10 AM	BREAK
11:10 AM-12:25 PM	Scientific Session: Immunology and Genetics Moderators: Judith Smith, MD, PhD and Tejpal Gill, MD
	Mechanism of JAK inhibitor in axSpA; Beyond IL-17/IL-23	Eric Gracey, MD Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
	Genetic Risk Score and Potential Application as a Diagnostic Tool for ax SpA in Back Pain Patients	Matthew Brown, MD King’s College, London, UK
	Novel Therapeutic Targets in AS	Akihiro Nakamura, MD University Health Network, Toronto
12:25-12:45 PM	Q & A
12:45-1:30 PM	LUNCH
1:30-3:10 PM	Scientific Session: Imaging Moderator: Walter Maksymowych, MD
	Synthetic CT	John Carrino, MD, MPH Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
	Implementation and Role of Low dose CT in Clinical Practice	Jonathan Chan, MD University of British Columbia, Vancouver
	Axial SpA MRI Findings in Pediatric Patients	Pam Weiss, MD, MSCE Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
	PET-CT in Diagnosis of AxSpA	Siba Raychaudhuri, MBBS, MD University of California Davis VA Medical Center Sacramento
3:10-3:30 PM	Q & A
3:30-4:00 PM	BREAK
4:00-6:00 PM	Grant Recipient and Abstract Presentations Moderator: John Reveille, MD
	Seed Grants for Junior Faculty
	Elucidating a Role for Neutrophils in Th17 Immunity and Disease in Ankylosing Spondylitis	Ruth Napier, PhD Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
	Significance and Outcome of Magnetic Resonance Enterography Revealing Sacroiliitis in Crohn’s Disease: A Pilot Study	Fardina Malik, MD NYU Langone School of Medicine, New York
	Functional Genomics to Identify Key Cellular Drivers in Ankylosing Spondylitis	Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston
	The Impact of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Use on Cardiovascular Events in Ankylosing Spondylitis	Jean Liew, MD Boston University, Boston
	Fellowship Grants for Pilot Projects
	Effect of Biologics in Subgroups of Axial Spondyloarthritis Based on MRI and CRP: A Subgroup Analysis by Objective Signs of Inflammation	Paras Karmacharya, MD Vanderbilt University, Nashville
	Oral Abstracts
	Polyfunctional IL-17A+ MAIT Cells are Expanded in the Peripheral Blood of Patients with HLA-B27+ Axial Spondyloarthritis	Micah Lefton, MSc Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston
	Impact of Characteristic Inflammatory and Structural Imaging Lesions on Clinical Expert Classification of Juvenile Spondyloarthritis	Adam Mayer, MD Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia
	Trends in Fracture Rates among Veterans with Ankylosing Spondylitis	Sali Merjanah, MD Boston University, Boston
6:30-9:00 PM	Dinner at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
	Studying Color, Line and Composition from Artists with Arthritis – Renoir, Toulouse Lautrec, Klee, Khan and Rasner	James Louie, MD

Saturday, April 30

(Central Daylight Time)

8:00-8:40 AM	Keynote Address IL-17D and its Potential Role in SpA	Ellen Gravallese, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
8:40-9:10 AM	SPARTAN Project Updates
	CLASSIC	Walter Maksymowych, MD University of Alberta, Edmonton
	EIDA	Dax Rumsey, MD University of Alberta, Edmonton
	BASIS	Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver
9:10-9:20 AM	BREAK
9:20-11:20 AM	SPARTAN Referral Recommendations Project Moderators: Liron Caplan, MD, PhD and Tiffany Lin, MD	Maureen Dubreuil, MD Boston University Atul Deodhar, MD Oregon Health & Science University Abhijeet Danve, MD Yale University
11:20-11:30 AM	BREAK
11:30-12:15 PM	Debate A single diagnosis of ‘axial spondyloarthritis’ should replace the separate diagnoses of radiographic (AS) and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis. Moderator: Michael Weisman, MD
	PRO	Walter Maksymowych, MD University of Alberta, Edmonton
	CON	Michael Ward, MD, MPH The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
12:15-1:00 PM	LUNCH

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