Agenda
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Thursday, May 8
Eastern Daylight Time
| 7:00-7:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 7:30-11:00 AM | Spondyloarthritis Review Course |
| 11:00-11:45 AM | LUNCH (for Spondyloarthritis Review Course and MRI Workshop attendees only) |
| 11:45-1:00 PM | SpA Physical Exam Workshop |
| 1:00-1:30 PM | PT: Practical Points & Exercise Guidelines for Patients with axSpA |
| 1:30-2:00 PM | BREAK |
| 2:00-5:00 PM | MRI Workshop: Protocol, Findings, and Mimickers |
| 5:30-7:00 PM | Annual Meeting Welcome Reception and Poster Tours |
Friday, May 9
Eastern Daylight Time
| 7:00-8:00 AM | Breakfast for Annual Meeting attendees Advisor Forum Breakfast (invitation only) REFRESH Breakfast for interested early career investigators, trainees, or spondy newbies |
| 8:00-8:10 AM | Welcome Matthew Stoll, MD, PhD |
| 8:10-8:20 AM | SPARTAN Research Career Achievement and Distinguished Service Award Presentations |
| 8:20-9:50 AM | SESSION I: Year in Review Moderators: Nigil Haroon, MD and Mohamed Bittar, MD |
| Basic Science Ruth Napier, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver |
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| Clinical Science and Imaging Jean Liew, MD, MS, Boston University, Boston |
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| Clinical Trials Abhijeet Danve, MBBS, MD, FACP, Yale University, New Haven |
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| 9:50-10:10 AM | BREAK |
| 10:10-12:00 PM | SESSION II: T cells Moderators: Robert Colbert, MD, PhD and Tejpal Gill, PhD |
| T cells Animal Studies CD4/CD8/MAIT/NK-T Judith Smith, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin—Madison |
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| T cells AS Patients Michael Paley, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis |
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| CAR-T (non-CD19) Naoto Hirano, MD, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| 12:00-12:45 PM | LUNCH |
| 12:45-1:45 PM | Keynote Address Moderators: Robert Inman, MD and Laura Passalent |
| Neuroimaging of Pain in Ankylosing Spondylitis Karen D. Davis, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC, Professor, Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| 1:45-3:15 PM | SPARTAN Projects Part I Moderators: Marina Magrey, MD and Akihiro Nakamura, MD, PhD |
| CLASSIC Walter Maksymowych, MD, FRCP, FACP, University of Alberta, Alberta |
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| 3:15-4:15 PM | BREAK AND POSTER TOUR |
| 4:15-5:15 PM | Breakout Sessions Moderators: John Reveille, MD and Ignacio Garcia-Valladares, MD |
| 5:15-5:30 PM | BREAK |
| 5:30-6:00 PM | Breakout Session Report Moderators: John Reveille, MD and Ignacio Garcia-Valladares, MD |
| 7:00-9:30 PM | Annual Reception and Award Presentations at Hockey Hall of Fame |
Saturday, May 10
Eastern Daylight Time
| 7:00-8:00 AM | Breakfast PANLAR Breakfast (invitation only) |
| 8:00-9:00 AM | SPARTAN Projects Part II Moderators: Marina Magrey, MD and Akihiro Nakamura, MD, PhD |
| 8:00-8:30 AM | BASIS Sibel Aydin, MD, University of Ottowa, Ottowa |
| 8:30-9:00 AM | ACR/SPARTAN/SAA Guidelines Liron Caplan, MD, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver |
| 9:00-10:00 AM | SESSION III: Diagnosis and Classification of axSpA: WIN Moderators: Hemalatha Srinivasalu, MD and Jonathan Chan, MD |
| New Pediatric SpA Classification Criteria Pamela Weiss, MD, MSCE, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
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| Imaging Denis Poddubnyy, MD, PhD, MSc, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| 10:00-10:15 AM | BREAK |
| 10:15-11:45 AM | Abstracts and Grants Moderator: Jean Liew, MD |
| Serum Proteomic Analysis of Cellular Immune Clusters in Psoriatic Arthritis Steven Dang, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| Safety of Prescription NSAIDs in Adults with IBD: Data from a Large Administrative Claims Cohort Adam Mayer, MD, University of Pennsylvania, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia |
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| BASDAI and its Components as Outcome Measures for axPsA Pankti Mehta, MD, MBBS, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| The Deubiquitinase TRABID is a Novel Therapeutic Target in Spondyloarthritis. Archita Srinath, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| Mapping the PBR of SpA-associated Versus SpA-neutral HLA-B*27 Alleles, Using a High-throughput Genetic Screening Platform Kristen Mengwasser, MD, PhD, University of California San Fransisco |
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| The Relationship Between HLA-B27 Positivity and Inflammatory Back Pain in the US Population Mark Hwang, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston |
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| Spatial Gene Profiles for New Bone Formation in Ankylosing Spondylitis Akihiro Nakamura, MD, PhD, Queen’s University, Ontario |
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| 11:45-12:30 PM | The Great Debate Moderator: Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc |
| MRI neg axSpA does not exist. Lianne Gensler, MD, University of California, San Francisco Atul Deodhar, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland |
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| 12:30-12:45 PM | Closing Comments Matthew Stoll, MD, PhD |
| 12:45-1:15 PM | LUNCH |
