While we strongly encourage in-person attendance, we are providing the virtual option for those who cannot travel to the meeting.
To encourage greater participation in this year’s Annual Meeting and Trainee Symposium, we are also inviting trainees at all levels (medical students, residents, and fellows), advanced practice providers (nurse practitioners and physician assistants), and research coordinators working with SPARTAN members.
To offer flexibility, SPARTAN will reimburse travel and hotel expenses for those able to attend the Trainee Symposium only (April 28) or the Trainee Symposium along with the SPARTAN Annual Scientific Meeting (April 28-30) in-person. For those trainees who are unable to travel to Madison, we still offer the option to virtually attend the live experience at no cost.
Trainee Symposium—Schedule of Events
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Thursday, April 28, 2022
(Central Daylight Time)
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast and Registration | |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome | Tiffany Lin, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Rheumatology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Mohamad Bittar, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology The University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| 9:05 AM | Classification and Clinical Manifestations of Spondyloarthritis | Maureen Dubreuil, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine |
| 9:45 AM | Disease Mechanisms in Spondyloarthritis | Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD Associate Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 10:25 AM | BREAK | |
| 10:35 AM | Musculoskeletal Exam in Spondyloarthritis | Philip Mease, MD Director of Rheumatology Research, Swedish Medical Center/Providence-St Joseph Health Clinical Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine |
| 10:55 AM | Spondyloarthritis Exam Workshop | Education Committee Faculty |
| 11:40 AM | Uveitis | Nicholas Butler, MD Assistant Professor of Ophthamology, Harvard Medical School |
| 12:10 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:00 PM | Imaging in Spondyloarthritis | Walter Maksymowych, MD Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology University of Alberta |
| 1:30 PM | Management of Axial Spondyloarthritis | Michael Ward, MD, MPH Clinical Researcher and Senior Investigator, The National Institutes of Health |
| 2:00 PM | Management of Psoriatic Arthritis and IBD-related Arthritis | Lihi Eder, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Canada Research Chair in Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases, University of Toronto |
| 2:30 PM | BREAK | |
| 2:40 PM | Breakout Case Discussions | Education Committee Faculty |
| 3:40 PM | Study Outcome Measures in Spondyloarthritis | Marina Magrey, MD Division Chief, Rheumatology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
| 4:10 PM | Physical Therapy in Spondyloarthritis | Angelo Papachristos, BSc PT, MBA Advance Practice Physiotherapist, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto |
| 4:30 PM | Symposium Concludes |
