Preliminary Program
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Wednesday, 27 March 2019
10:00 - 12:30 | Pre-Congress Pathology Workshop: Make the diagnosis - difficult cases incl. morphology - A Mammen, A Amato, I Nishino |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 15:00 | Welcome - W Stenzel, O Benveniste & I Nishino |
General Lecture: Recent developments in therapeutic approaches for neuromuscular diseases - T Voit | |
15:00 - 16:30 | I Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis (sIBM) - T Lloyd, J Zschüntzsch |
16:30 - 17:15 | Coffee Break |
17:15 - 18:30 | IIa Extramuscular (Neoplasia) - Y Allenbach, M de Visser |
18:30 | Welcome Reception: Berlin history in a nutshell - J Marberg |
Thursday, 28 March 2019
08:30 - 10:00 | IIb Extramuscular (Lung) - M Needham, B Hervier |
10:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Session |
11:15 - 12:45 | III Treatment and Trials - O Landon-Cardinal, B Feldmann |
12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 16:00 | Workshop for Young Physicians/Researchers: Clinical & Research: specificities in different countries. How to improve international collaborations? - M Fujimoto, I Nishino, H Chinoy, W Stenzel, O Benveniste, A Mammen, L Christopher-Stine |
14:00 - 16:00 | Patient-Centered Workshop - J Schmidt, S Schlüter How to assess PRO (patient reported outcome) PRO in IIM: where do we stand - C Mecolie-technologies in IIM - O Landon-Cardinal Devices in IIM - R Aggarwal (1h lectures & 1h Q&A with patients) |
16:00 - 16:45 | Snack Break, Exhibition and Posters |
16:45 - 20:00 | Team Workshop jDM - L Rider, K Ardalan 1: Medication Usage and Outcomes in Juvenile Dermatomyositis - T Kishi 2: Insights from genomic analyses of juvenile dermatomyositis - C Deakin 3: Biomarkers of disease activity in JDM: opportunities for personalized treatment strategies - F van Wijk 4: Vasculopathy in JDM and work in progress - C Gitiaux |
16:45 - 18:45 | Speed-Funding - Y Allenbach, H Chinoy, A Meyer, D Pehl, C Preuße, J Tanboon, A Kubota |
FRIDAY, 29 MARCH 2019
08:30 - 10:00 | IVa Juvenile Dermatomyositis (jDM) - A Selva O‘ Callagan, B Bader-Meunier |
10:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break, Exhibition and Posters |
11:15 - 12:30 | IVb Dermatomyositis (DM) - V Werth, M Fujimoto |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch/ Genzyme Industry Symposium |
14:00 - 15:30 | V Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathies (IMNM) - I Lundberg, G Wang |
15:30 - 16:30 | Snack Break, Exhibition and Poster Session |
16:30 - 17:00 | IMACS Meeting - L Rider, F Miller |
17:00 - 17:30 | Establishing a World Myositis Society: Where do we go from here? - J Schmidt |
18:30 | Scientific Get-Together |
Saturday, 30 March 2019
08:30 - 09:20 | VI New Treatment Options - U Schneider, S Greenberg |
09:20 - 10:00 | VII Miscellaneous - O Boyer, J Lamb |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break, Exhibition |
10:30 - 11:15 | VII Hot Topics - HH Goebel, J Vencovsky |
11:15 - 12:00 | IX Patients: Reports from patient association(s) - M Dimachkie |
12:00 - 13:00 | General Discussion, Prizes - T Lloyd, V Werth Closing & Handover - O Benveniste, I Nishino, W Stenzel |
13:15 - 14:30 | Lunch |