Date
24-26 April 2024
Venue
Liverpool ACC and Online
Annual Conference is the leading rheumatology event, bringing together delegates for three days of learning, knowledge sharing, networking and innovation. The conference welcomes rheumatology professionals from across the UK including consultants, trainees, nurses and allied health professionals and those working in paediatric and adolescent rheumatology.

This year’s hybrid conference took place in Manchester on 24-26 April. Over 2300 attendees joined us in-person and online for a packed programme featuring over 70 sessions, 100+ speakers and world-renowned keynotes. This year’s event also included new practical skills workshops, 50+ exhibitors, symposia, networking events and fun social activities.

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2023 programme

Morning

Contains Best practice and oral abstract sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

09:00-10:30

Dr Kelsey Jordan, Dr Edward Roddy, Prof Abhishek Abhishek

09:00-10:30

Dr Tevfik Ismail, Dr Lisa Willcocks, Prof David D'Cruz

09:00-10:30

Dr Muhammad Shipa, Dr Jack Arnold, Dr Sarah Dyball, Dr Enrico de Lorenzis, Dr Latika Gupta, Prof John Pauling

09:00-10:30

Prof Maya Buch, Dr Helena Marzo-Ortega, Prof Fiona Watt

09:00-10:30

Dr Rosemary Hollick, Dr Ben Parker, Dr Anne McEntegart, Prof Bhaskar Dasgupta

10:30-11:10

Refreshment break

10:35-11:05

Targeted therapy for RA: the latest approaches to optimising patient outcomes

Sandoz session

Mid morning

Includes oral abstracts and EULAR sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

11:10-12:40

Prof Michael Ehrenstein, Prof David Jayne, Prof Ed Vital

11:10-12:40

Prof Robert Landewé, Dr Sofia Ramiro, Prof Raashid Luqmani

11:10-12:40

Julie Begum, Robert Clark, Prof Sarah Ryan

11:10-12:40

Dr Zixing Tian, Dr May Nwe Lwin, Dr Stephanie Ling, Dr Barbara Torlinska, Dr Rudresh Shukla, Prof Maya Buch

Afternoon

Includes Heberden Round and conference awards

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

12:40-13:55

Lunch

13:00 - 13:50

Lessons from the past: JAK to the future

Galapagos session

13:00-13:50

Choosing the right treatment for the patient: Evaluating the benefits and risks of JAK inhibition

Lilly session

13:05-13:50

Sarah Fish, Karen Staniland, John Paton, Paul Amlani-Hatcher

13:05-13:50

Prof Anne-Maree Keenan, Prof Abhishek Abhishek

13:15-13:45

Trainees meet and greet

Host: Dr Anastasia Madenidou

13:55-14:35

Conference welcome and Awards

Dr Sanjeev Patel

14:40-16:10

Prof Karen Walker-Bone, Dr Jo Ledingham, Dr Mark Russell

14:40-16:10

Dr Lisa Hutton, Dr Joyce Lim, Dr Chetan Mukhtyar, Kate Smith, Dr Russell Machin, Dr Matthew Colquhoun

14:40-16:10

Dr Michael Hughes, Prof Ernest Choy, Dr Siraj Misbah

14:40-16:10

Julie Begum, Di Finney, Donna Hood

14:40-16:10

Dr Tim Blake, Alasdair Davie, Sophie East

16:10-16:50

Refreshment break

16:15-16:45

Nothing SpAred: Striving for optimal outcomes in all patients. This non-promotional event is organised and funded by UCB Pharma Ltd and is intended for a Healthcare Professional audience.

UCB session

16:15-16:45

AbbVie non-promotional Innovation Session – Levelling up in rheumatology: Addressing postcode lotteries and health inequalities

Dr Elena Nikiphorou and Dr Arvind Kaul

16:50-17:50

Prof Lucy Wedderburn

17:55-18:55

Prof Gary Macfarlane, Prof Karen Walker-Bone, Dr Anne Stagg

17:55-18:55

Kathy Blacker, Dr Shouvik Dass, Dr Frances Hall,

18:45-20:00

President's reception

Early Morning

SIG sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

7:45-8:45

Dr Lucy Durham, Will Gregory, Dr Chris Lamb, Prof Helena Marzo-Ortega, Dr Nicola Gullick

7:45-8:45

Dr Jeremy Royle, Prof Francesco Del Galdo, Dr Graham Dinsdale

7:45-8:45

Dr Elizabeth Price, Dr Guy Smith, Prof Benjamin Fisher,

7:45-8:45

Dr Richard Wakefield, Dr Sarang Chitale,

7:45-8:45

Dr Eve Smith, Dr Tess McPherson, Dr Emma Piepenstock

Morning

Includes Best abstracts, essentials and paediatric sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

09:00-10:30

Prof Maya Buch

09:00-10:30

Prof Nagy Habib, Prof Simon Jones, Prof Mark Lindsay

09:00-10:30

Prof Christopher Denton, Dr Christopher Stovin, Dr Yun-Ting (Joyce) Huang, Mengyu Feng, Lucia Martin-Gutierrez, Dr Bernard Thong

09:00-10:30

Dr Emma Dures, Janet Harkess, Dr Nicola Minaur

09:00-10:30

Dr Philip Riley, Dr Emily Willis, Sue Maillard, Zoe Berger

09:00-10:30

Di Finney

09:00-10:30

Medical student rheumatology taster

10:30-11:10

Refreshment break

10:35 - 11:05

Advancing Collaborative Medicine in the Psoriatic Arthritis/Psoriasis Paradigm – The follow up

Novartis session

10:35-11:05

Supporting Wellbeing in Rheumatoid Arthritis during and post pandemic

Galapagos session

10:35-11:00

Pharmacist meet and greet

Hosts: Kalveer Flora and Clare Nash

10:35-11:00

Allied health professionals meet and greet

Hosts: Will Gregory, Prof Yeliz Prior, Ginny Ward

10:35-11:00

Nurses meet and greet

Hosts: Sharon Petford, Louise Parker, Julie Begum, Polly Livermore, Di Finney

11:10-12:40

Prof David Jayne, Prof Ricard Cervera, Dr James Galloway

11:10-12:40

Prof Andrew Filer, Prof Nidhi Sofat, Dr Taryn Youngstein

11:10-12:40

Dr Jessy Choi, Prof A V. Ramanan, Heather Smee

11:10-12:40

Di Finney

11:10-12:40

Medical student rheumatology taster

Afternoon

Includes Droitwich Lecture and Barbara Ansell Address

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

12:40-13:55

Lunch

13:00-13:50

Spondyloarthritis through the ages - exploring challenges in diagnosis and management from juvenile to adulthood

Novartis session

13:00-13:50

Janssen symposium

13:55-15:25

Dr Ajay Kamath, Dr Shirish Dubey, Dr Peter George

13:55-15:25

Prof Lakshminarayan Ranganath, Dr Robin Lachmann, Dr James Lilleker,

13:55-15:25

Dr Iona Thorne, Laura Blackler, Diane Home

13:55-15:25

Dr Scott Lieberman, Prof Elizabeth Jury, Dr Coziana Ciurtin

13:55-15:25

Prof Christian Hedrich, Dr Paul Brogan, Dr Rachel Tattersall

15:25-16:05

Refreshment break

15:30-16:00

How do phenotypes inform clinical practice in psoriatic arthritis?

Novartis session

16:05-17:05

Dr Ashwini Deshmukh, Dr Vinod Ravindran, Prof Kimme Hyrich

16:05-17:05

Prof Patrick Kiely, Dr Edoardo Cipolletta, Dr Mark Russell

16:05-17:05

Dr Sasha Saadia Ali, Dr Polly Livermore, Dr James Lilleker

16:05-17:35

Prof Krysia Dziedzic (on behalf of Prof Jo Adams), Dr Catherine Gwynne, Prof Emma Dures, Carol McCrum

16:05-17:35

Prof A Ramanan, Dr Sophia Mavrommatis, Dr Eve Smith, Junjie Peng

17:45-19:00

Keynotes and Trainees drinks reception

Early Morning

SIG and sponsored sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

7:45-8:45

Prof Ian Bruce, Prof Ed Vital

7:45-8:45

Prof William Dixon, Dr Rebecca Lee, Dr Alec Price-Forbes

7:45-8:45

Prof Karen Walker-Bone, Dr David Lowe, Dr Muddassir Shaikh

7:45-8:45

Dr Dzifa Dey, Prof Emma McIntosh

7:45-8:45

Dale Webb

Morning

Includes Heberden Oration

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

9:00-10:30

Dr Ai Lyn Tan, Prof Hector Chinoy, Dr Vinod Ravindran

9:00-10:30

Dr Daniel Maunder, Dr Joanna Robson, Dr Taryn Youngstein

9:00-10:30

Dr Elena Nikiphorou, Dr Meghna Jani, Dr Neil Basu

9:00-10:30

Dr James Bluett, Prof Nina Barnett, Prof Robert Horne

9:30-10:30

Prof Christopher Edwards, Prof Maarten Boers

10:30-11:10

Refreshment break

10:35-11:05

Pathway and digital Innovation in inflammatory arthritis – how do we prioritise in a post-pandemic era?

Amgen session

10:35-11:00

Allied health professionals and nurses meet and greet

Hosts: Di Finney and Sharon Petford

11:10-12:10

Heberden Oration

Prof Tim Spector

Afternoon

Includes oral abstracts and essentials session

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

12:10-13:25

Lunch

12:30-13:20

Boehringer Ingelheim sponsored session – Optimising CTD-ILD patient care; identify, refer, collaborate

Prof Patrick Kiely and Dr Felix Chua

13:25-14:55

Mr Rhidian Morgan-Jones, Dr Muddassir Shaikh, Dr Barry Salkin

13:25-14:55

Prof Elaine Dennison, Dr Morten Hansen, Dr Rowan Hardy

13:25-14:55

Dr Durgarao Yadavalli, Prof Gareth Jones, Dr Sizheng Steven Zhao, Dr Ryan Hum, Dr Antoni Chan, Prof Gareth Jones

13:25-14:55

Dr Tariq Iqbal, Dr Sarah Mackie, Prof Ahmet Gul

13:25-14:55

Prof Ernest Choy, Dr Philip Heliwell, Dr Sandra Robinson

14:55-15:35

Refreshment break

15:35-16:35

Dr Jordan Tsigarides, Dr Ian Scott

15:35-16:35

Dr Vong Ong, Prof Maya Buch, Dr Daniel Knight

15:35-17:05

Dr Madhavi Vindlacheruvu, Dr Ken Poole, Dr Louise Newson

15:35-17:05

Dr Mark Russell, Dr Sara Ibrahim, Dr Claire Wood, Dr Neal Shah, Dr Ahmad Saif, Dr Rosemary Hollick

15:35-17:05

Prof Ian Giles, Dr Devesh Mewar, Dr Sarah Mackie

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