Conference Description

September 24, 2005
Sheraton Boston Hotel
39 Dalton Street
Boston, Massachusetts
(617) 236-2000

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CME Credits 6.0*

Nonrefundable registration fee: $0.

Target Audience: Rheumatologists

Learning Objectives:
The intimate setting of this conference will maximize learning and discussion and will enable rheumatologists to learn first hand from thought leaders in their field. Among the proposed topics and objectives will be to:

1. describe the factors involved in bone metabolism critical to fracture prevention and its ramifications for therapies
2. discuss the integration of the biologic agents and the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other entities into outpatient practices
3. explain the safety, efficacy, and economic issues of biologic therapy
4. compare the balance of safety and efficacy with patient needs in the pharmacologic management of arthritis using non-steroidal inflammatories
5. discuss the possible role for aggressive non-biologic therapies that are available for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and related entities
6. discuss advances in the management of systemic lupus erythematosis
7. discuss newer therapies in the treatment of moderate to severe gout

Agenda:

7:45-8:30		Registration and Continental Breakfast Welcome—Gerald S. Harris, MD
8:30-9:30		Gout Revisited H. Ralph Schumacher, MD
9:30-10:30		Biologic Therapies: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going? Arthur Weaver, MD
10:30-11:00		Morning Break—Tour Exhibits
11:00-12:00		All This and Cox-2 Allan Gibofsky, MD, JD
12:00-1:20		Luncheon
1:20-1:30		Conference Updates
1:30-2:30		New Concepts in Therapy of SLE Robert G. Lahita, MD, PhD
2:30-3:30		Grandma’s Shrinking: Current State of the Art in Osteoporosis Gerald S. Harris, MD
3:30-4:00		Afternoon Break—Tour Exhibits
4:00-5:00		Ankylosing Spondylitis: Current Concepts on Pathogenesis and Therapy Sterling West, MD
5:00		Closing Remarks—Gerald S. Harris, MD

Faculty:
Allan Gibofsky, MD, JD, FACP, FCLM
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Attending Rheumatologist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham University

Gerald S. Harris, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Member, ISCD
Rheumatologist, Lahey Clinic
Chief of Rheumatology
New England Rehabilitation Hospital

Robert G. Lahita, MD, PhD
Vice-President and Chairman of Medicine
Jersey City Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical School

H. Ralph Schumacher, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Arthur Weaver, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska

Sterling West, MD, MACP, FACR
Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Program Planning Committee:
Gerald S. Harris, MD
Charles Kahn, MD, FACP, FACR
Wayne G. Riskin, MD, FACP, FACR
Elaine Kahn, MSN, ARNP

Educational Consultant:
Robert Zurier, MD
Director of Rheumatology Division
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Activity Director: Alan Goodstat, LCSW

*Continuing Education Information
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and the National Association for Continuing Education. UMMS is accredited by ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. UMMS designates this continuing medical education activity for 6.0 credit hours in Category I toward the Physicians Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Under the auspices of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Office of Continuing Education this offering meets the requirements for 7.2 contact hours, as specified by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing (244-CMR 5.04). Each nurse should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spend in the educational activity.

In accordance with the Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the guidelines of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), it is the policy of the University of Massachusetts Medical School to disclose whatever interest or affiliation a speaker might have with any commercial organization whose products or services are related to the subject matter being presented. Such disclosure will be made available on the day of the program.

This program was supported through educational grants from the following companies: Abbott Laboratories, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Centocor, Eli Lilly & Company, Pfizer, Procter and Gamble, STADA Pharmaceuticals.