Annual Conference

Sections

Overview

Date

24-26 April 2023

Venue

Manchester Central and online

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2022 programme

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Morning

Contains essentials and oral abstract sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

9:00-10:30

Disease management (Essentials)

Dr Natasha Jordan, Dr Vanessa Quick, Dr Marcos Martinez Del Pero

09:00-10:30

Osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease

Dr Celia Gregson, Dr Richard Eastell, Dr Zoe Paskins

09:00-10:30

Advances in fibromyalgia

Dr Eva Kosek, William Gregory, James Needham

9:00-10:30

COVID-19 abstracts

Dr Pedro Machado, Dr Marek Bohm, Dr Ezolene Chua, Dr Maryam Adas, Dr Roxanne Cooksey, Dr James Kimpton

10:35-11:05

Auto-Inflammatory Cross Over In Haematology & Rheumatology - Could It be Castleman's Disease?

Mid morning

Includes oral abstracts, essentials and trainees sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

11:10-12:40

Symptom management (Essentials)

Prof Christian Hedrich, Dr Emma Clark, Mr Harry Petrushkin

11:10-12:40

Connective tissue disorder abstracts

Prof Ariane Herrick, Dr Praveen Bharathi, Dr Lucy Carter, De Weike Luo, Dr Keerthi Vardhan Yerram, Dr Sarah Tansley

11:10-12:40

Spondyloarthropathy update (Trainees)

Dr Areti Makrygeorgou , Dr Laura Coates, Dr Alex Bennett

11:10-12:40

Better musculoskeletal health: better work, better health

Dr Alison Hammond, Dr Rosemary Hollick, Dr Gwen Wynne-Jones

11:10-12:40

State-of-the-art evidence-based early inflammatory arthritis (EIA) management

Dr Andy Bennett, Dr Désirée van der Heijde, Dr Benjamin Ellis

Afternoon

Includes Heberden Round and conference awards

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

13:15 -14:05

Lilly sponsored symposium

13:15 - 13:45

Exploring the lessons from COVID-19: Sustaining the change

13:25-14:10

Workshop: Quality improvement tools quickfire round (available in-person only)

Dr Charlotte Sharp, Dr Rosalind Benson, Dr Mark Hoey, Dr Laura Chadwick

13:25-14:10

Workshop: Mentoring skills (available in-person only)

Erin Taylor, Alexis Hutson

14:10-14:50

Conference welcome and Garrod and Michael Mason Awards

Dr Sanjeev Patel

14:55-16:25

Developing the advanced practice workforce in rheumatology

Mhairi Brandon, Rebecca Adshead, Catherine McCoy

14:55-16:25

Registers abstracts

Dr Nicola Goodson, Dr Md Yusof, Dr Aasiyah Rokad, Dr Michael Stadler, Dr Ryan Hum, Prof Gary Macfarlane

14:55-16:25

Best Practice Awards

14:55-16:25

Systemic sclerosis update (Trainees)

Dr Kevin Howell, Prof Ariane Herrick, Dr Mohammed Akil, Dr John Snowden

14:55-16:25

JAK inhibitors: risk and benefit (co-badged with EULAR)

Prof Anja Strangfeld, Prof Mike Nurmohamed, Dr Marwan Bukhari

16:40-17:40

Heberden Round

Prof Raashid Luqmani

17:45-18:45

Rheumatology in low and middle income countries (SIG)

Dr Mwidimi Ndosi, Dr Vinod Ravindran

17:45-18:45

Hypermobility and long COVID-19 shared manifestations (SIG)

Dr Philip Bull, Dr Hanadi Kazkaz

17:45-18:45

Sjögrens (SIG)

Dr Girish Gupta, Dr Stephen Bicknell, Dr Elizabeth Price

17:45-18:35

JAK selectivity in RA: what can we learn from the data?

17:45-18:35

AbbVie sponsored symposium

Early Morning

SIG sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

7:45-8:45

Young adult (SIG)

Dr Lis Cordingley, Dr Janet McDonagh

7:45-8:45

Obstetric rheumatology (SIG)

Dr Rebecca Fischer-Betz, Dr Lesley Kay, Dr Charles Raine

7:45-8:45

Vasculitis (SIG)

Dr Alan Salama, Dr Fiona Pearce

7:45-8:45

Ultrasound (SIG)

Dr Richard Wakefield, Dr Zunaid Karim

7:45-8:45

Remote monitoring (SIG)

Dr Philip Hamann, Dr Alec Price-Forbes, Melanie Martin

Morning

Includes Best abstracts, Droitwich Lecture, Barbara Ansell address and co-badged EULAR sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

09:00-10:30

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Prof Christian Hedrich, Dr Catherine Jury, Andrew Fell, Prof Philip Helliwell

09:00-10:30

Experts in the field (Essentials)

Prof Peter Grayson, Dr Patrick Kiely, Dr Muthana Alobaidi

09:00-10:30

Quality improvement in action: using skills and experience in QI to build for the future

Dr Emma Vaux, Dr Hannah Wright, Lewis Sutherland

09:00-10:30

Best abstracts

Sona Jesenakova, Dr Saskia Lawson-Tovey, Dr Benjamin Faber, Dr Ruth Costello, Dr Nicholas Fuggle, Dr Mwidimi Ndosi

09:00-10:30

Advances in the management of arthritis, trauma and soft tissue problems of the ankle

Richard Wilkins, Dr David Keene, Rebecca Kearney

10:35-11:05

Uncovering clinical challenges and advances in psoriatic arthritis care

11:10-12:40

Droitwich Lecture and Barbara Ansell Address

Dr Mwidimi Ndosi, Dr Clarissa Pilkington

11:10-12:40

Rare diseases presenting to the rheumatologist: differential diagnosis and management

Prof Neil Scolding, Dr Emma Culver, Prof David D'Cruz

11:10-12:40

How to manage rheumatic emergencies in pregnancy

Dr Monika Ostensen, Dr Clare Tower, Prof Taryn Youngstein

11:10-12:40

Rheumatoid arthritis abstracts

Dr Mohammed Alshehri, Dr Natasha Wood, Dr Philip Brown, Prof Maya Buch, Dr Mehreen Soomro, Dr Bernard Combe

11:10-12:40

COVID-19 vaccines and therapies (co-badged with EULAR)

Prof Kimme Hyrich, Prof Iain McInnes, Dr Pedro Machado

Afternoon

Includes Keynote and paediatric and adolescent stream

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

13:00-13:30

AbbVie innovation session

13:00-13:50

Lilly sponsored symposium

13:00-13:50

Janssen sponsored symposium

13:10-13:55

Workshop: Helping patients to achieve change using techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) (available only in-person)

13:10-13:55

British Society for Rheumatology AGM

13:55-14:25

Keynote

Dr Grace Spence Green

14:30-15:00

Solutions to optimise psoriatic arthritis care: the Cardiff holistic approach

15:00-16:30

Innovation in paediatric and adolescent rheumatology

Prof Lucy Wedderburn, Dr Antonios Frantzeskos, Dr Laura Lunt, Dr Eve Smith

15:00-16:30

Working with children and young people with autism

Emily Fraser, Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert

15:00-16:30

BSR clinical guidelines

Prof Hector Chinoy, Prof Ian Giles, Dr Laura Coates

15:00-16:30

SpA abstracts

Dr Louise Hailey, Dr Helena Marzo-Ortega, Dr Helena Marzo-Ortega, Dr William Tillett, Dr Athimalaipet Ramanan, Dr Atul Deodhar

15:00-16:30

Prediction and prevention of rheumatoid arthritis: an update

Dr Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Prof John Isaacs, Dr Marie Falahee

16:40-18:10

Heart, lungs and inflammatory disease in children and young people

Dr Charalampia Papadopoulou, Dr Paul Burns, Dr Hanna Lythgoe, Dr Paul Brogan

16:40-17:40

Ehlers-Danlos syndromes in children and young people

Glenda Sobey, Jessica Bowen

16:40-18:10

Making glucocorticoids better

Dr Jan Tuckermann, Dr David Ray, Dr Andy Clark

16:40-17:40

Education (SIG)

Dr Pippa Watson

16:40-17:40

MSK Pain SIG

Dr Yeliz Prior, William Gregory, Michael Backhouse

18:00-18:50

AbbVie sponsored symposium

18:00-18:50

Advances in ANCA-associated vasculitis patient management

Early Morning

SIG sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

7:45-8:45

Crystal arthritis (SIG)

Dr Philip Riches, Dr Lorraine Watson, Dr Geraldine McCarthy

7:45-8:45

Specialised rheumatology commissioning (SIG)

Dr Frances Hall, Dr Megan Rutter, Dr Bridget Griffiths

7:45-8:45

Educational strategies for rheumatological conditions in minority ethnic group (SIG)

Dr Shirish Dubey, Dr Sheila Greenfield, Dr Atiya Kamal, Dr Arum Moorthy

7:45-8:45

Nailfold capillaroscopy in the rheumatic diseases (SIG)

Dr John Allen, Dr Kevin Howell, Dr Graham Dinsdale

7:45-8:45

Spondyloarthropathies (SIG)

Dr Matthew Brown, Dr Rebecca Adshead, Dr Donal O'Shea, Dr Helena Marzo-Ortega, Dr Laura Coates, Prof Stefan Siebert

Morning

Includes Heberden Oration

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

9:00-10:30

Ensuring patients see the right professional at the right time – upskilling rheumatology specialist pharmacists and allied health professionals

Hilary Mckee, Emily Rose-Parfitt, Dr Samir Patel

9:00-10:30

A multi-pronged approach to reduce the infection risk

Dr David Lowe, Dr Alisdair Dr Alisdair MacConnachie, Dr Muddassir Shaikh

9:00-10:30

Revisions, rejections and rebuttals: the show must go on!

Dr Marwan Bukhari, Dr Vinod Ravindran, Dr Durga Misra

9:00-10:30

EULAR recommendations update (co-badged with EULAR)

Prof Stefan Siebert, Prof Jacob Van Laar, Dr Elena Nikiphorou, Dr Axel Finckh

9:00-10:30

Rheumatology and the microbiome

Dr Martin Kriegel, Dr Frances Williams, Dr Claire Daien

10:35-11:05

Evolution of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Disease Management

11:10-12:10

Heberden Oration

Prof Anne Barton

Afternoon

Includes BSR debate and trainees session

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

12:45-13:35

An exploration of RWE in RA. An International Expert Perspective. A Pfizer fully funded and organised symposium. Company products will be discussed.
PP-XEL-GBR-3532 March 2022

12:45-13:35

Advancing collaborative medicine in the Psoriatic Arthritis / Psoriasis Paradigm - Novartis Pharmaceuticals Sponsored Symposium

12:55-13:40

Workshop: Research for all (available only in-person)

Dr Ai Lyn Tan, Dr Mrinalini Dey, Dr Rosemary Hollick,

12:55-13:40

Workshop: Using data for improvement in rheumatology (available only in-person)

Dr Iona Thorne, Dr Samantha Riley, Dr Ceril Rhys-Dillon

13:40-15:10

Hand osteoarthritis: Clinical features and management options

Dr Karishma Shah, Dr Nidhi Sofat, Dr Fiona Watt

13:40-15:10

Polymyalgia rheumatica: controversies, updates and future ambitions

Dr Claire Owen, Dr Sarah Mackie, Dr Anne O'Brien, Prof Christian Mallen

13:40-15:10

Myositis

Dr Harsha Gunawardena, Dr Elizabeth Renzoni, Dr Alexander Oldroyd

13:40-15:10

Rheumatology emergencies (Trainees)

Prof Taryn Youngstein, Prof Liz Lightstone, Prof Hannah Cohen

13:40-15:10

Which cells should we target in rheumatoid arthritis? The BSR debate

Dr Mariola Kurowska-Stolarska, Prof Adam Croft, Prof Andrew Cope, Prof Claudia Mauri

15:20-16:50

Audit and QI abstracts

Dr Katie Bechman, Dr Mike Hurley, Dr Maryam Adas, Dr Sheilla Achieng, Dr Thurkka Rajeswaran, Dr Kirsty McLellan