Lupus: Advancing Evolving Evidence to Overcome Healthcare Disparities

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New year, new educational opportunities with AWIR – bringing you the latest updates and hottest topics in rheumatology. This year, we continue to build upon our educational pillars: Clinical Competence, Cultural Consciousness and Collaborative Care. And we have planned three virtual Summits featuring CME-accredited programs alongside informational presentations from our partners. 

The second Virtual Summit includes a 1.5-hour CME/MOC session on lupus, featuring experts Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH from UCSF Health Lupus Clinic, and Anita Dhanrajani, MD from the Children's Hospital New Orleans. This session will provide an overview of the latest data, evolving treatment options, and best practices in adult and pediatric lupus, to help you stay abreast of and align your practice with evolving evidence. Plus, the session will address health-related equity, diversity, and inclusion in lupus – as well as practices for optimal transitions of care for pediatric patients – to help HCPs adopt multidisciplinary care and patient-centered models that enable equitable care to all patients. Read more about the CME session below!    

How To Participate 

This is a virtual event, so please register following these 3 easy steps:

1. Go to our registration page and register for the Summit.
2. Save your registration email with your link and login information.
3. Log in to the virtual meeting app during the Summit to participate!

The companion virtual meeting app allows you to watch the Summit livestream, review the program agenda and faculty information, send questions, participate in polling questions, complete pre- and post-activity surveys, and find information to claim CME/MOC credits!

Please note: you must register and complete the poll/survey questions in the virtual meeting app to claim your free CME credits.

Do you want to watch the Summit while networking with your rheumatology peers? Then join your local AWIR Watch Party!

Watch parties will be added as we get closer to the Summit. Register now as a virtual attendee, save your registration email with the link, and come back to your registration to choose your watch party location.

Below are the confirmed locations for the September summits:

Summit Details

Date: September 14th, 2024  

Time: 12:00 PM – 3:20 PM EST

Location: Virtual with Community Locations

Chairs:

• Grace C. Wright, MD, PhD, FACR
• Priya Reddy, MD, FACR

Faculty

• Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH
• Anita Dhanrajani, MD 

Program (EST)

12:00-12:10 - Welcome Remarks

12:10-12:40 - Educational Symposium
"Nailing Psoriatic Arthritis: Understanding the Link Between Nails, Joints, And Obesity" 

• Presented by Alexis Ogdie, MD, MSCE 
• Sponsored by Lilly

• Presented by Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH and Anita Dhanrajani, MD
• 1.5 CME/MOC  

14:10-14:25 - Break

14:25-14:40 - Roundtable

• AbbVie: Melitza Iglesias
• Lilly: Rebecca Rozinski
• Pfizer: William Shealy

• Presented by Kostas Bostoglou, MD
• Sponsored by AbbVie

15:10-15:20 - Closing Remarks

Summit Sponsors

CME Session Information

Learning Objectives:

• Assess clinical presentation of and differences between adult and pediatric patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
• Differentiate novel and emerging targeted therapies for pediatric and adult SLE based on mechanisms of action, indications, efficacy, and safety data. 
• Identify patient-specific clinical and social factors to personalize SLE treatment plans and close healthcare disparities across different patient populations.  
• Apply multidisciplinary models and transitions of care to optimize the management and outcomes of adult and pediatric patients with SLE. 

Agenda: 

• Clinical Presentation of and Differences Between Pediatric and Adult Lupus
• New Targeted Therapies and Treatment Approaches for Pediatric and Adult Lupus
• Social Determinants of Health and Healthcare Disparities in Pediatric and Adult Lupus​ 
• Multidisciplinary Models and Transitions of Care in Lupus​ 

Accreditation information

CE credit provided by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Association of Women in Rheumatology. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.5 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 

Registration link: Click here