Join us in Cleveland for the 2023 Annual Meeting!
Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Tower
1360 West Mall Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44114
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SPARTAN members and all Trainees will be reimbursed according to our Meeting Reimbursement Policy.
Friday, May 19, 2023—An evening at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Annual Meeting—Schedule of Events
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Friday, May 19
Central Daylight Time
| 8:00-8:10 AM | Welcome Joerg Ermann, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston; Chair, SPARTAN Board of Directors |
| 8:10-8:15 AM | 2023 Research Career Achievement Award Presentation Atul Deodhar, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland |
| 8:15-9:15 AM | YEAR IN REVIEW Moderators: Vikas Majithia, MD and Sonam Kiwalkar, MD |
| Clinical Research Maureen Dubreuil, MD, Boston University |
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| Basic Science Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver |
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| Clinical Trials Philip Mease, MD, Swedish Medical Center/Providence St Joseph Health, Seattle |
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| Q & A | |
| 9:15-10:30 AM | SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS |
| Basic Science Session Moderators: Joerg Ermann, MD and Akihiru Nakamura, MD, PhD |
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| CD8+ T Cells in SpA—Time to Revisit? Robert Colbert, MD, PhD, NIH/NIAMHS |
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| High-dimensional Single Cell Analysis in SpA Paul Bowness, MD, University of Oxford, UK |
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| JAK STAT Inhibitors in AxSpA Siba Raychaudhuri, MD, University of California Davis/VA Medical Center, Sacramento |
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| Q & A |
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| 10:30-10:50 AM | BREAK |
| 10:50-12:10 PM | Clinical Session–A Moderators: Mark Hwang, MD and Jean Liew, MD |
| Managing AxSpA in Pregnancy Jessie Walsh, MD, University of Utah |
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| Treat to Target: Tapering Strategy in AxSpA Marina Magrey, MD, University Hospitals, Cleveland |
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| Management of IBD Associated SpA Jeffry Katz, MD, University Hospitals, Cleveland |
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| Q & A |
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| 12:10-1:00 PM | LUNCH |
| 1:00-2:20 PM | Clinical Session–B Moderators: Matt Stoll, MD, PhD and Mohamad Bittar, MD, MS |
| How Do We Monitor Disease Activity in AxSpA in Clinical Practice? Abhijeet Danve, MBBS, MD, FACP, Yale University, New Haven |
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| Development of New Classification Criteria of Pediatric AxSpA Pamela Weiss, MD, MSCE, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
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| Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Diagnosis of AxSpA Denis Poddubnyy, MD, PhD, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin |
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| Q & A | |
| 2:20-3:40 PM | HLA-B27: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary Moderators: John Reveille, MD and Runsheng Wang, MD |
| Broad Historical Perspective about HLA-B27 Muhamad Asim Khan, MD, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (emeritus) |
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| Potential Role of HLA-B27 in the Pathogenesis of AxSpA: What is New? Nigel Haroon, MD, PhD, MBA, University of Toronto |
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| Epidemiology and Clinical Significance of HLA-B27 in AxSpA Michael Weisman, MD, Stanford Univeristy |
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| Q & A |
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| 3:40-4:00 PM | BREAK |
| 4:00-6:00 PM | RESEARCH PROJECTS Moderator: Lianne Gensler, MD |
| Seed Grant Presentation | |
| Characterizing Gut Microbial Dysbiosis in HLA-B27 Negative Axial Spondyloarthritis Tejpal Gill, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland |
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| Fellowship Grant Presentations | |
| Determinants of Diagnostic Delay in Axial Spondyloarthritis Revealing Sacroiliitis in Crohn’s Disease: A Pilot Study Gregory McDermott, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston |
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| Clinical Validation of Neutrophil DTL (a Negative Regulator of IL-23) Expression in SpA Akihiro Nakamura, MD, PhD, Queen’s University, Ontario |
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| Oral Abstract Presentations |
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| 6:30-9:30 PM | Evening at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
Saturday, May 20
Central Daylight Time
| 8:00-9:00 AM | Keynote Address Moderators: Marina Magrey, MD and Elaine Husni, MD |
| IL-17: TH17 Cells in Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Diseases Vijay Kuchroo, DVM, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham Research Institutes, Boston |
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| 9:00-9:10 AM | SPARTAN SESSIONS Moderator: Joerg Ermann |
| SPARTAN Business |
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| 9:10-10:45 AM | PROJECTS |
| Referral Recommendations Maureen Dubreuil, MD, Boston University Medical Center; Abhijeet Danve, MBBS, MD, FACP, Yale University, New Haven; Atul Deodhar, MD, MRCP, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland |
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| BASIS Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver |
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| Treatment Guidelines Liron Caplan, MD, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver |
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| 10:45-11:00 AM | BREAK |
| 11:00-12:00 PM | CLASSIC Walter Maksymowych, MD, FRCP, FACP, University of Alberta |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | DEBATE Moderators: Michael Ward and Liron Caplan, MD, PhD |
| A disparity in response to therapeutics has been observed in males and females in clinical trials—is this a biologic difference or not? | |
| PRO: Atul Deodhar, MD MRCP, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland CON: Lianne Gensler, MD, University of California San Francisco |
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| 1:00-1:30 PM | LUNCH |
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