Meetings

CIS School in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
March 14-18, 2007
Santa Fe, NM, USA

The School in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases took place at the Hotel Santa Fe, March 14-18, 2007, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was the fourth meeting sponsored by the Clinical Immunology Society on Systemic Autoimmune Diseases and proved to be a resounding success.

Thirteen faculty members were selected to act as mentors to the attendees, to attend the school, and give didactic presentations during the program.  One of the invited faculty members, Yaniv Sherer, was a past school attendee invited back to serve as a faculty member.

Sixty-three applications were received for the School. Twenty-five participants were selected and two alternates.  Fourteen of these individuals were from the US and eleven were international participants. Countries represented included: Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States.

Participants presented their case or abstract during a twenty minute presentation. Ten minutes was allocated after each presentation for discussion. The faculty presentations consisted of thirty minute didactic presentations with fifteen minutes for discussion. Faculty and fellows took turns chairing each time block.

Please be sure to view the presentations by the fellows and faculty on the CIS web site.

Some of the feedback we received regarding the School included:

• “Excellent conferences. Santa Fe provides an ideal environment for collegiality, would recommend keeping conference here.”

• “Fantastic meeting. Loved Santa Fe.”

• “Great learning experience for me!”

• “The best scientific assembly I have attended.”

• “Tremendous opportunity to meet international faculty, fellows. A great gateway to acquire basic skills and scientific approach.”