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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

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

Morning

Contains Best practice and oral abstract sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

09:00-10:30

New developments in crystal arthritis

Dr Kelsey Jordan, Dr Edward Roddy, Prof Abhishek Abhishek

09:00-10:30

Autoimmune rheumatic diseases on the critical care unit

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

09:00-10:30

Connective tissue diseases oral abstracts

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

09:00-10:30

Difficult-to-treat arthritis

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

09:00-10:30

Best practice: fostering excellence in rheumatology

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

New therapies in SLE

Prof Michael Ehrenstein, Prof David Jayne, Prof Ed Vital

11:10-12:40

Latest EULAR recommendations in RA, Axial Spa and ANCA associated vasculitis (co-badged with EULAR)

Prof Robert Landewé, Dr Sofia Ramiro, Prof Raashid Luqmani

11:10-12:40

Pharmacy in rheumatology, sharing experiences to help you create and develop your pharmacy team

Vanessa Reid, Rebecca Heaton, Alison Ahmed

11:10-12:40

Transforming telephone advice lines

Julie Begum, Robert Clark, Prof Sarah Ryan

11:10-12:40

Rheumatoid arthritis oral abstracts

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

Patients as partners: an interactive workshop (available in-person only)

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

13:05-13:50

The NIHR and rheumatology : how it can help you workshop(available in-person only)

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

Measuring the impact of inflammatory arthritis – what we know and what the future may hold

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

14:40-16:10

Vasculitis oral abstracts

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

14:40-16:10

Rheumatology mimics (trainees)

Dr Michael Hughes, Prof Ernest Choy, Dr Siraj Misbah

14:40-16:10

Education initiatives for nurses by nurses across the UK

Julie Begum, Di Finney, Donna Hood

14:40-16:10

One small step for management, one giant leap for AHPs

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

Heberden Round

Prof Lucy Wedderburn

17:55-18:55

How do we facilitate patients with RMDs to remain in work? (Work SIG)

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

17:55-18:55

Commissioning for specialised rheumatology (SIG)

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

Spondyloarthritis(SIG)

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

7:45-8:45

Nailfold capillaroscopy(SIG)

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

7:45-8:45

Sjogren's (SIG)

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

7:45-8:45

Ultrasound (SIG)

Dr Richard Wakefield, Dr Sarang Chitale,

7:45-8:45

SLE in the adolescent (SIG)

Dr Eve Smith, Dr Tess McPherson, Dr Emma Piepenstock

Morning

Includes Best abstracts, essentials and paediatric sessions

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

09:00-10:30

Symptom management (essentials)

Prof Maya Buch

09:00-10:30

Advances in oligo targeting and oligo therapeutics in joint disease

Prof Nagy Habib, Prof Simon Jones, Prof Mark Lindsay

09:00-10:30

Best oral abstracts

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

09:00-10:30

No health without mental health

Dr Emma Dures, Janet Harkess, Dr Nicola Minaur

09:00-10:30

PIMS review of treatment: medical, physiotherapy and psychology

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

09:00-10:30

Nurse joint injection workshop

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

Disease management (essentials)

Prof David Jayne, Prof Ricard Cervera, Dr James Galloway

11:10-12:40

Do we need to do biopsies in rheumatology practice anymore?

Prof Andrew Filer, Prof Nidhi Sofat, Dr Taryn Youngstein

11:10-12:40

Looking beyond medications– evidencing the case for the non-pharmacological approaches to managing rheumatic diseases

Prof George Metsios, Louise Trewern, Dr Radha Modgil

11:10-12:40

Management of JIA associated uveitis

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

11:10-12:40

Autoinflammatory disease in children: experience of the Scottish Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology Network

Dr Jo Walsh, Prof Helen Lachmann

11:10-12:40

Nurse joint injection workshop

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

13:05-13:55

Using data and measurement for quality improvement: What can we learn from the 6 JIALearn improvement collaborative teams about how to do this in practice? Workshop(available only in-person)

Dr Gavin Cleary, Dr Flora McErlane

13:05-13:55

pGALSplus assessment: an interactive workshop

Vicky Mercer

13:55-15:25

Pulmonary manifestations of rheumatoid conditions: a holistic approach

Dr Ajay Kamath, Dr Shirish Dubey, Dr Peter George

13:55-15:25

Metabolic conditions in rheumatology (trainees)

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

13:55-15:25

Family planning, contraception and (oops!) accidental conception

Dr Iona Thorne, Laura Blackler, Diane Home

13:55-15:25

Sjogren's syndrome with onset in childhood - a rare phenotype

Dr Scott Lieberman, Prof Elizabeth Jury, Dr Coziana Ciurtin

13:55-15:25

Emergencies in paediatric and adolescent rheumatology

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

Ethnicity (SIG)

Dr Ashwini Deshmukh, Dr Vinod Ravindran, Prof Kimme Hyrich

16:05-17:05

Crystal Arthritis (SIG)

Prof Patrick Kiely, Dr Edoardo Cipolletta, Dr Mark Russell

16:05-17:05

Myositis (SIG)

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

16:05-17:35

Droitwich Lecture and AHP oral abstracts

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

16:05-17:35

Barbara Ansell Address and paediatric and adolescent oral abstracts

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

SLE SIG and BILAG Investigators meeting(SIG)

Prof Ian Bruce, Prof Ed Vital

7:45-8:45

Telemedicine and remote monitoring (SIG)

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

7:45-8:45

Virology for the rheumatologist (SIG)

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

7:45-8:45

Rheumatology in low and middle income countries (SIG)

Dr Dzifa Dey, Prof Emma McIntosh

7:45-8:45

Education (SIG)

Dale Webb

Morning

Includes Heberden Oration

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKERS

9:00-10:30

Smart research; smartly published!

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

9:00-10:30

Vasculitis (SIG)

Dr Daniel Maunder, Dr Joanna Robson, Dr Taryn Youngstein

9:00-10:30

Lifestyle and inflammatory arthritis- the evidence (trainees)

Dr Elena Nikiphorou, Dr Meghna Jani, Dr Neil Basu

9:00-10:30

How to optimise adherence to medication

Dr James Bluett, Prof Nina Barnett, Prof Robert Horne

9:30-10:30

Steroids debate: Should they stay or should they go

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

12:35-13:25

Motivational interviewing techniques: culturally sensitive manual for improving medication adherence in minority ethnic population workshop(available only in-person)

Dr Atiya Kamal, Dr Kanta Kumar

12:35-13:25

Workshop: What makes great educational supervision- sharing good practice including the trainee perspective (available only in-person)

Dr Spencer Ellis, Dr Pippa Watson, Dr Jessica Weightman

13:25-14:55

Infectious arthritis – controversies and update

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

13:25-14:55

New insights in inflammatory bone loss and its management

Prof Elaine Dennison, Dr Morten Hansen, Dr Rowan Hardy

13:25-14:55

Psoriatic arthritis oral arthritis

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

13:25-14:55

Experts in the field (essentials)

Dr Tariq Iqbal, Dr Sarah Mackie, Prof Ahmet Gul

13:25-14:55

Disease, drugs and patient education for the MDT

Prof Ernest Choy, Dr Philip Heliwell, Dr Sandra Robinson

14:55-15:35

Refreshment break

15:35-16:35

Pain (SIG)

Dr Jordan Tsigarides, Dr Ian Scott

15:35-16:35

Optimising management of lung and heart disease in systemic sclerosis (SIG)

Dr Vong Ong, Prof Maya Buch, Dr Daniel Knight

15:35-17:05

Osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease (SIG)

Dr Madhavi Vindlacheruvu, Dr Ken Poole, Dr Louise Newson

15:35-17:05

Audit and health research oral abstracts

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

15:35-17:05

BSR Guidelines: development, delivery and impact

Prof Ian Giles, Dr Devesh Mewar, Dr Sarah Mackie

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