SPARTAN Annual Meeting

Join us in Cleveland for the 2023 Annual Meeting!
Register today

 
Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Tower
1360 West Mall Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44114

Hotel Reservations

Meeting Registration

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

Schedule of Events

Download PDF 

Thursday, May 18

Central Daylight Time

8:00-9:00 AM	Spondyloarthritis Review Course Registration and Breakfast
8:00 AM-7:30 PM	SPARTAN Annual Meeting Registration
9:00 AM-2:30 PM	Spondyloarthritis Review Course (formerly Trainee Symposium)
2:30-5:30 PM	MRI Workshop (all welcome)
6:00-7:30 PM	Welcome Reception and Abstract Poster Session
7:30-9:30 PM	Sponsor Forum

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
8:15-9:15 AM	YEAR IN REVIEW Moderators: Vikas Majithia, MD and Sonam Kiwalkar, MD
	Clinical Research Maureen Dubreuil, MD, Boston University
	Basic Science Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver
	Clinical Trials Philip Mease, MD, Swedish Medical Center/Providence St Joseph Health, Seattle
	Q & A
9:15-10:30 AM	SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
	Basic Science Session Moderators: Joerg Ermann, MD and Akihiru Nakamura, MD, PhD
	CD8+ T Cells in SpA—Time to Revisit? Robert Colbert, MD, PhD, NIH/NIAMHS
	High-dimensional Single Cell Analysis in SpA Paul Bowness, MD, University of Oxford, UK
	JAK-STAT Signaling in Spondyloarthritis and its Clinical Relevance Siba Raychaudhuri, MD, University of California Davis/VA Medical Center, Sacramento
	Q & A
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
	Treat to Target: Tapering Strategy in AxSpA Marina Magrey, MD, University Hospitals, Cleveland
	Management of IBD Associated SpA Jeffry Katz, MD, University Hospitals, Cleveland
	Q & A
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
	Development of New Classification Criteria of Pediatric AxSpA Pamela Weiss, MD, MSCE, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Diagnosis of AxSpA Denis Poddubnyy, MD, PhD, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
	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)
	Potential Role of HLA-B27 in the Pathogenesis of AxSpA: What is New? Nigel Haroon, MD, PhD, MBA, University of Toronto
	Epidemiology and Clinical Significance of HLA-B27 in AxSpA Michael Weisman, MD, Stanford Univeristy
	Q & A
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
	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
	Clinical Validation of Neutrophil DTL (a Negative Regulator of IL-23) Expression in SpA Akihiro Nakamura, MD, PhD, Queen’s University, Ontario
	Oral Abstract Presentations
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
9:00-9:10 AM	SPARTAN SESSIONS Moderator: Joerg Ermann
	SPARTAN Business
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
	BASIS Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver
	Treatment Guidelines Liron Caplan, MD, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver
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
	Differences in clinical response to therapeutics has been observed between females and females in axial spondyloarthritis trials—is this biologic or not?
	PRO: Atul Deodhar, MD, MRCP, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland CON: Lianne Gensler, MD, University of California San Francisco
1:00-1:30 PM	LUNCH