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Agenda

2019 SPARTAN Annual Meeting

Thursday May 2
9:00 am – 5:00 pm SPARTAN Trainee Symposium
3:00 – 5:00 pm CLASSIC Investigator Meeting
5:30 – 7:00 pm Welcome Reception and Poster Viewing
Friday May 3
8:10 – 11:10 am Scientific Session 1 “New Developments in Imaging of SpA”
Moderator: Walter Maksymowych, MD
University of Alberta, Edmonton
8:10 – 8:50 am Robert Lambert, MB BCh, FRCR, FRCPC
University of Alberta
“Low radiation CT and advances in MRI for detection of structural lesions in axSpA”
8:50 – 9:30 am Xenofon Baraliakos, MD
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
“Assessment of Progression in AxSpA: Is there still a role for plain radiography?”
9:50 – 10:30 am Maxime Dougados, MD
René Descartes University and Hôpital Cochin, Paris
“What does imaging tell us about prognosis in SpA?”
10:30 – 11:10 am Sovira Tan, PhD
NIH/NIAMS, Bethesda
“Imaging insights into SpA pathogenesis”
11:15 – 12:15 pm Breakout Sessions
1:30 – 3:30 pm Scientific Session 2 “Gut microbiome and inflammation
in SpA pathogenesis”

Moderator: Robert Colbert, MD, PhD
NIH/NIAMS, Bethesda
1:30 – 2:10 pm Mark Asquith, BSc, MSc, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
“Gut microbiome and SpA pathogenesis”
2:10 – 2:50 pm Jose Scher, MD
New York University School of Medicine, New York
“Dysbiosis in human SpA”
2:50 – 3:30 pm Charles Bernstein, MD
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
“Management of co-morbid IBD and SpA: A gastroenterologist’s perspective”
4:00-5:00 pm Oral Abstract Presentations
Moderator: Nigil Haroon, MD, PhD
University Health Network, Toronto
5:00-6:00 pm Seed Grant Awardee Presentations
Jonathan Chan, MD, MSc
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
“Validation of administrative billing codes for the diagnosis of axial SpA”
Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc
Boston University School of Medicine
“Development of Minimal Disease Activity criteria in Axial SpA”
Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver
“Understanding the pathophysiology of spondyloarthritis by characterizing trafficking lymphocytes in the gut-joint axis”
Runsheng Wang, MD
MHS Columbia University Medical Center, New York
“N-of-1 trials in axial SpA “
6:30 – 9:00 pm Annual Reception at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery
University of Wisconsin
Saturday May 4
8:00 – 8:30 am SPARTAN Business Meeting
8:30-9:30 am Maxime Dougados, MD Keynote Address
“Lessons from the DESIR cohort”
9:45am-12:40 pm Scientific Session 3 “Moving Ax SpA Clinical Research Forward:
thinking outside the box”

Moderator: Judith Smith, PhD, MD
9:45-10:25 am Theresa Walunas, PhD
Northwestern Medicine, Chicago
“Harnessing the potential of EMR for rheumatology research”
10:25-11:05 am Alexis Ogdie-Beatty, MD, MSCE
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
“Personal Technology in Clinical Trials”
11:20-12:00 pm Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston
“Beyond the drug trial: cost-effectiveness research?”
12:00-12:40 pm Sherry Rohekar, MD, FRCPC
Western University, London, Ontario
“Work disability/presenteeism in SpA”

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