Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Tower
1360 West Mall Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(216) 696-9200
SPARTAN members and all trainees will be reimbursed according to our Meeting Reimbursement Policy.
Schedule of Events
Thursday, May 18
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Eastern 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 | Abstract Poster Session and Welcome Reception |
| 7:30-9:00 PM | Sponsor Forum |
Friday, May 19
Eastern Daylight Time
| 7:00-8:00 AM | BREAKFAST |
| 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 Robert D Inman, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FRCP, University of Toronto, Ontario Presented by Nigil Haroon, MD, PhD, DM, FRCPC, MBA, University of Toronto, Ontario |
| 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 Akihiro 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 Signaling in Spondyloarthritis and its Clinical Relevance 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 Muhammad Asim Khan, MD, MACP, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH |
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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 University |
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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: A Pilot Study Gregory McDermott, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston |
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| Clinical Validation of Neutrophil DTL Expression in SpA Akihiro Nakamura, MD, PhD, Queen’s University, Ontario |
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| Oral Abstract Presentations |
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| Integrative Functional Genomics Points to Natural Killer Cells as Key Drivers in the Pathogenesis of Ankylosing Spondylitis Marcos Chiñas, Boston Children’s Hospital |
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| Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor May Help Maintain Tight Junctions in the Gut by Enhancing Occludin Expression Shaghayegh Foroozan Boroojeni, University of Toronto |
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| Sex Differences in Clinical and Imaging Phenotypes of Axial Juvenile Spondyloarthritis Adam Mayer, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania |
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| 6:30-9:30 PM | Evening at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
Saturday, May 20
Eastern Daylight Time
| 7:00-8:00 AM | BREAKFAST |
| 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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| 9:10-10:10 AM | SPARTAN PROJECTS |
| Referral Recommendations Maureen Dubreuil, MD, Boston University Medical Center; Abhijeet Danve, MBBS, MD, FACP, Yale University, New Haven |
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| 10:10-10:30 AM | BREAK |
| 10:30-12:45 PM | Treatment Guidelines Liron Caplan, MD, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver |
| BASIS Elaine Husni, MD, Case Western University, Cleveland; Sibel Zehra Aydin, MD, University of Ottowa |
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| CLASSIC Walter Maksymowych, MD, FRCP, FACP, University of Alberta |
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| 12:45-1:15 PM | LUNCH |
