Session: Innovations in Rheumatology
HANER DIRESKENELI, MD
PROFESSOR OF RHEUMATOLOGY
Vasculitis Clinic and Division of Rheumatology
CHIEF OF VASCULITIS
Clinic & Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine
Marmara University, School of Medicine
Istanbul, Turkey
PROTON RAHMAN, MD
DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University of Newfoundland
CHIEF OF RHEUMATOLOGY
Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital
Newfoundland, Canada
Session 2: Combined Round – Essential Tools for Rheumatologists
CHRISTINE CHUNG, MD
PROFESSOR AND INTERIM CHAIR
Department of Radiology
University of California San Diego (UCSD)
DIRECTOR
MSK Imaging Research Group, UCSD
California, United States of America
DAHLIA HASSAN, MD
ASSISTANT ATTENDING RHEUMATOLOGIST
Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS)
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, United States of America
Session 3: Innovations in Osteoarthritis and Ultrasound in Rheumatic Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMDs)
QASIM AKRAM, BSc (Hons) MBChB FRCP (London) (Rheum) PGCertClinEd
CONSULTANT RHEUMATOLOGIST & GENERAL PHYSICIAN
Stepping Hill Hospital
Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
DIRK ELEWAUT, MD, PhD
PROFESSOR OF RHEUMATOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY
VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent University
CHAIR
Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Ghent University Hospital
Ghent, Belgium
Session 4: Updates in Pediatric Rheumatology
ELIZABETH PRICE, MB BCh, FRCP, MD
Consultant Rheumatologist and NEIAA Clinical Lead
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Swindon, United Kingdom
MARK FRISWELL, MB, ChB, FRACP
CONSULTANT PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGIST & HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Department of Pediatric Rheumatology
Women’s and Children’s Hospital
North Adelaide, Australia
Session 5: Innovations in Management of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMDs)
HIMANSHU BANSAL, MBBS, MS, DNB
CONSULTANT, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE & SCIENTIST, STEM CELL RESEARCH
Mother Cell, Uttarakhand, India
DIRECTOR, FACIAL & GYNAE AESTHETCS & ANTI-AGING DIVISION
Revita Life Sciences-India, USA, Spain, Thailand, and Dubai
Uttarakhand, India
SINDHU R. JOHNSON, MD, PHD
DIRECTOR
Toronto Scleroderma Program
Clinical Epidemiology & Health Care Research Program, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
CLINICIAN-SCIENTIST
University Health Network & Sinai Health Systems
PROFESSOR
Medicine & Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Session 6: Connective Tissue Diseases (CTDs)
LAURA ANDREOLI, MD, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, RHEUMATOLOGY
University of Brescia
CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN
Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology Unit
Spedali Civili di Brescia
Italy
LAURENT ARNAUD, MD, PhD
PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE & SENIOR RHEUMATOLOGY CONSULTANT
Department of Rheumatology, Hautepierre Hospital
French National Reference Center for Auto-immune Diseases (RESO)
Strasbourg, France