Meetings
CIS School in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
April 2-6, 2008
Boston, MA, USA
Agenda
| Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 - 7:30 pm | Registration | Kennedy |
| 7:30 - 9:00 pm | Welcome to the School and Opening Reception | Stowe |
| Thursday, April 3, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 am | Breakfast | Stowe |
| General Session | Kennedy | |
| 8:00 - 8:15 am | Systemic Diseases: An Overview George Tsokos MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Cente |
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| 8:15 - 8:45 am | Nailfold Capillary Density is Strongly Associated Over Time with Muscle and Skin Disease Activity in Juvenile DermaTomyositis Heinrike Schmeling, MD The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto |
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| 8:45 - 9:15 am | Henoch Schönlein Purpura: A Role for Corticosteroids during Hospitalization Pamela Weiss, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
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| 8:45 - 9:15 am | Tamilselvam Tiruchengode, MD |
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| 9:15 - 10:00 am | Role of FSTL-1 in Arthritis Raphel Hirsch, MD Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 am | Break | Kennedy |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Genes Upregulated in SLE Patients with Atherosclerosis are Targetable by Specific Small Molecule Inhibitors Brian Skaggs, PhD University of California, Los Angeles |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Outcomes in Pediatric Lupus Nephritis Ankur Kamdar, MD Baylor College of Medicine |
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| 11:30 - 12:15 pm | Antibodies & the Brain: Lessons from Lupus Betty Diamond, MD Feinstein Institute for Medical Research |
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| 12:15 - 1:15 pm | Lunch | Stowe |
| 1:15 - 1:45 pm | Production and Characterization in Vitro a Fusion Protein CTLA4-Fc? with Potential use in Immunotherapy Maria Auxiliadora Miranda, MD Universidad Central de Venezuela |
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| 1:45 - 2:15 pm | An Open Label, Single Arm, Single Center, Phase I/II Trial of Rituximab for the Treatment of Early RA Stephen Murphy, MD UCHSC |
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| 2:15 - 3:00 pm | Pre-Clinical Autoimmunity Kevin Deane, MD University of Colorado |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Break | Kennedy |
| 3:30 - 4:00 pm | Gene Expression Profiling in Juvenile Dermatomyositis Shirley Wang, MD University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
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| 4:00 - 4:30 pm | Antigen-specific Th17 Regulation in Autoimmune Arthritis Keiichi Iwanami, MD University of Tsukuba |
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| 4:30 - 5:15 pm | Mast Cells and Inflammatory Arthritis David Lee, MD PhD Brigham & Women's Hospital |
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| 7:00 - 8:30 pm | Dinner | Stowe |
| Friday, April 4, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 am | Breakfast | Stowe |
| General Session | Kennedy | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 am | Good Response to IL-1? Blockade by Anakinra in a CINCA/NOMID Patient Without CIAS1 Mutations: Cytokine Profiles and Functional Studies Christian Hedrich, MD Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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| 8:30 - 9:15 am | Immunopathogenesis of Angiogenesis in Rheumatoid Arthritis Alisa Koch, MD University of Michigan Medical School |
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| 9:15 - 9:45 am | Prolonged CD154 Expression in Pediatric Lupus CD4 T Cells Correlates with Increased NFAT Activity, NFAT2 Levels, AND Glomerulonephritis Jay Mehta, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
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| 9:45 - 10:30 am | The T-cell in SLE: Activated or Anergic? Vasileios Kyttaris, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Break | Kennedy |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am | Marked Cryoglobulinemia in Rheumatoid Arthritis Marina Magrey, MD Cleveland Clinic |
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| 11:30 am -12:00 pm | Safety and Responsiveness of Varicella Vaccine in Pediatric Patients with Juvenile Rheumatic Diseases Gecilmara Pileggi, MD School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto - USP |
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| 12:00 - 12:45 pm | Atopy and Autoimmunity Current SLE Research: Clinical Cases Marianne Frieri, MD PhD Nassau University Medical Center |
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| 12:45 - 1:45 pm | Lunch | Stowe |
| 1:45 - 2:15 pm | Anti-C1q Antibodies in Patients with Juvenile-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Adriana de Jesus, MD University of São Paulo |
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| 2:15 - 3:00 pm | Anti-CCP: A Clinical Overview Peter Schur, MD Harvard Medical School |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Theme 1: Identification of a Case with Nakajo Syndrome, a New Autoinflammatory Syndrome: Our Current Attempt Theme 2: Exploring the Therapeutic Effects of Anti-Angiogenic Endostatin Peptide on Lupus Nephritis in a Mouse Model Kunihiro Ichinose, MD PhD Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University |
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| 3:30 - 4:15 pm | Genome Wide Association Studies of Rheumatoid Arthritis Kazuhiko Yamamoto The University of Tokyo |
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| Free time and dinner at your own expense | ||
| Saturday, April 5, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 am | Breakfast | Stowe |
| General Session | Kennedy | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 am | Spontaneous Autoimmune Glomerulonephritis in HLA-DQ2 Transgenic Mice Shadi Rashtak, MD Mayo Clinic College of Medicine |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 am | Somatic B Cell Gene Vaccination with Anti-DNA Immunoglobulin Consensus Peptide Protects Lupus-prone Mice from Renal Disease Francesca Ferrera, PhD University of Genoa |
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| 9:00 - 9:45 am | Identifying Targets and Studying Mechanism of Response to Adoptive Cellular Gene Therapy in NOD Mice by Gene Expression Analysis C. Garrison Fathman, MD Stanford University School of Medicine |
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| 9:45 - 10:15 am | Break |
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| 10:15 - 10:45 am | Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors and Demyelination: Causation or Guilt by Association? Mark Gorman, MD Children's Hospital Boston |
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| 10:45 - 11:30 am | Prediction and Prevention of Autoimmunity Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD Chaim Sheba Medical Center |
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| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Lunch | Stowe |
| 12:30 - 1:00 pm | Dexamethasone and Vitamin D3 Expanded CD4+CD25+ T cells Suppress Disease Activity in MLR/Ipr Mice Petya Dimitrova, PhD Institute of Microbiology |
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| 1:00 - 1:30 pm | Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Vasculitis including Behcet's Disease Britta Maurer, MD University Hospital of Zurich |
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| 1:30 - 2:15 pm | Do We Need Networking and Mentoring in the Global World of Science? Renate Gay, MD University Hospital of Zurich |
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| 2:15 - 2:30 pm | Group Photo | |
| 2:30 - 3:30 pm | Career Mentoring | |
| 6:00 pm | Board shuttle to World Trade Center | (meet in Omni lobby) |
| 6:30 pm | Board for Dinner Cruise - World Trade Center | |
| 7:00 - 10:00 pm | Dinner Cruise on Spirit of Boston | |
| 10:00 pm | Board shuttle back to Omni Parker House | |
| Sunday, April 6, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 am | Breakfast | Stowe |
| General Session | Kennedy | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 am | Bicytopenia, Triggered by Infection, in 3 Patients with Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Jana Pachlopnik Schmid, MD PhD INSERM U768 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 am | Neonatal Lupus Associated with RNP-antibodies Hanna Jarva, MD PhD University of Helsinki |
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| 9:00 - 9:45 am | Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Immune Cell Signaling: Identification of New Molecular Treatment Targets George Tsokos, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
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| 9:45 - 10:15 am | Closing Ceremony | |