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2024 Annual Meeting Agenda

2024 SPARTAN Annual Meeting

Agenda

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Thursday, May 16

Eastern Daylight Time

7:00-8:00 AM Breakfast and Registration
8:00-11:20 AM Spondyloarthritis Review Course
11:20-12:15 PM LUNCH (for Spondyloarthritis Review Course and Ultrasound Workshop attendees only)
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)

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Friday, May 17

Eastern Daylight Time

7:00-8:00 AM Breakfast for Annual Meeting attendees
REFRESH Breakfast for interested early career investigators, trainees, or spondy newbies
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
Jürgen Braun, MD, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
8:20-10:00 AM SESSION I: Year in Review
Moderators: Marina Magrey, MD and Jean Liew, MD, MS
Basic Science
Akihiro Nakamura, MD, PhD, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
Clinical Trials
Jonathan Kay, MD, UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, Massachusetts
Clinical Research (Non-clinical Trial) and Imaging
Mohamad Bittar, MD, OHSU, Portland, Oregon
9:50-10:10 AM BREAK
10:10-12:00 PM SESSION II: Spondyloarthritis Classification, Sub- and Endotypes
Moderators: Nigil Haroon, MD, PhD and Mark Hwang, MD
Past, Present and Future of the SpA Concept
Jürgen Braun, MD, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Big Data: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Help Identify Endotypes and Study Outcomes
Bo Wang, PhD, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Essential Concepts for the Development of Classification Criteria
Sindhu Johnson, MD, PhD, FRCPC, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
12:00-12:45 PM LUNCH
12:45-2:30 PM SESSION III: Spondyloarthritis Management in 2024 and Beyond
Moderators: Matt Stoll, MD, PhD and Vikas Majithia, MD
Unraveling the Challenges of Difficult-to-Treat Spondyloarthritis
Fabian Proft, MD, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Rationale, Indications and Safety of Dual Biologic Therapy
Simon Hong, MD, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York
Spondyloarthritis in Focus: Pediatric Developments and Cutting-Edge Treatment Modalities
Hemalatha Srinivasalu, MD, Children’s National, Washington DC
2:30-3:10 PM Breakout Sessions
3:10-3:30 PM BREAK
3:30-4:30 PM Abstracts and Grants
Moderators: John Reveille, MD and Ruth Napier, PhD
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Analysis of Gut-Joint Trafficked T cells Suggest Regulatory Functions during Homeostasis
Sarah Danielson, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use and Incident Hypertension among Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: Insights from the DESIR Cohort
Jose A. Meade-Aguilar, MD, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
The Added Utility of Hybrid Positron Emission Tomography-Magnetic Resonance (PET-MR) Imaging over Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Alone in Diagnosing Axial Spondyloarthritis
Patricia Remalante-Rayco, MD, Schroeder Arthritis Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Clarifying the Toolkit for Pain Control in Spondyloarthritis with IBD: Association of Prescription NSAID use with IBD-related Hospitalization, a Retrospective Analysis across the Age Spectrum
Adam Mayer, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4:30-6:00 PM SPARTAN Projects
Moderators: Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc and Jessica Walsh, MD
BASIS
Sibel Aydin, MD, University of Ottowa, Ottowa, Canada
Referral Recommendations
Abhijeet Danve, MBBS, MD, MHS, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
ACR/SPARTAN/SAA Guidelines
Liron Caplan, MD, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
SpA Screening in IBD—GRASp-IBD Study
Reem Jan, MD, MBBS, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Sex Differences in axSpA
Lihi Eder MD, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
7:00-9:30 PM Dinner at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
(buses leave at 6:30 pm from hotel lobby)

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Saturday, May 18

Eastern Daylight Time

7:00-8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00-9:00 AM Keynote Address
Moderators: Judith Smith, MD, PhD and Siba Raychaudhuri, MD
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
9:00-11:15 AM CLASSIC
Moderator: Lianne Gensler, MD
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
Moderator: Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc
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
1:00 PM LUNCH

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