Agenda
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Thursday, May 16
Eastern Daylight Time
| 8:00 AM-11:20 AM | Spondyloarthritis Review Course |
| 11:20-1:00 PM | LUNCH (for review course participants) |
| 12:15-3:15 PM | Ultrasound Imaging Workshop |
| 5:30-7:00 PM | Welcome Reception and Poster Session |
| 7:00-9:00 PM | Sponsor Forum (by invitation) |
Friday, May 17
Eastern Daylight Time
| 8:00-8:10 AM | Welcome Joerg Ermann, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 8:10-8:20 AM | SPARTAN Research Career Achievement Award |
| 8:20-10:00 AM | SESSION I: Year in Review |
| Basic Science Akihiro Nakamura, MD, PhD, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada |
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| Clinical Trials Jonathan Kay, MD, UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Clinical Research (Non-clinical Trial) and Imaging Mohamad Bittar, MD, OHSU, Portland, Oregon |
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| 9:50-10:10 AM | BREAK |
| 10:10-12:00 PM | SESSION II: Spondyloarthritis Classification, Sub- and Endotypes |
| Past, Present and Future of the SpA Concept Jürgen Braun, MD, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany |
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| Big Data: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Help Identify Endotypes and Study Outcomes Bo Wang, PhD, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada |
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| Essential Concepts for the Development of Classification Criteria Sindhu Johnson, MD, PhD, FRCPC, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
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| 12:00-12:45 PM | LUNCH |
| 12:45-2:30 PM | SESSION III: Spondyloarthritis Management in 2024 and Beyond |
| Unraveling the Challenges of Difficult-to-Treat Spondyloarthritis Fabian Proft, MD, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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| Rationale, Indications and Safety of Dual Biologic Therapy Simon Hong, MD, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York |
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| Spondyloarthritis in Focus: Pediatric Developments and Cutting-Edge Treatment Modalities Hemalatha Srinivasalu, MD, Children’s National, Washington DC |
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| 2:30-3:10 PM | Breakout Sessions |
| 3:10-3:30 PM | BREAK |
| 3:30-4:30 PM | Abstracts and Grants |
| 4:30-6:00 PM | SPARTAN Projects |
| BASIS Elaine Husnie, MD, MPH, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Sibel Aydin, MD, University of Ottowa, Ottowa, Canada |
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| Referral Recommendations Abhijeet Danve, MBBS, MD, MHS, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
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| ACR/SPARTAN/SAA Guidelines Liron Caplan, MD, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado |
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| SpA Screening in IBD—GRASp-IBD Study Reem Jan, MD, MBBS, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
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| Sex Differences in axSpA Lihi Eder MD, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
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| 7:00-9:30 PM | Dinner at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History |
Saturday, May 18
Eastern Daylight Time
| 8:00-9:00 AM | Keynote Address |
| Discovery of the JAK/STAT Pathway and Development of Therapies Targeting This Pathway John O’Shea, MD, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), Bethesda, Maryland |
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| 9:00-11:15 AM | CLASSIC Walter Maksymowych, MD, FRCP, FACP, University of Alberta |
| 11:15-11:35 AM | BREAK |
| 11:35-12:00 PM | Breakout Session Reports |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | The Great Debate |
| Is axSpA an Autoimmune Disease? Robert Colbert, MD, PhD, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), Bethesda, Maryland Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado |
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| 1:00 PM | LUNCH |
