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CONGRESS OF CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY

Congress of Clinical Rheumatology
April 8-11, 2010


Clinical and Scientific Faculty

Tim Bongartz, M.D., MBS
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Rochester, MN

Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment and Malignancies:
How do we deal with the diseases we are causing?

Alan N. Brown, M.D.
  • Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Immunology and Rheumatology Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Moderator, CCR Thieves' Market
Philip Clements, M.D.
  • Professor, Division of Rheumatology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

1) Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis:
    Optimizing Evaluation and Management

2) Treatment of Scleroderma 2010
Terry F. Davies, MB.BS, MD, FRCP, FACE.
  • Florence and Theodore Baumritter Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
  • Attending Physician, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
  • Director, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, New York, NY.
  • President, American Thyroid Association

Risk factors in Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
Chad Deal, M.D.
  • Head of the Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

FRAX - Assessing Fracture Risk Clinical Application of Fracture Risk Assessment Tool
Daniel Doleys, Ph.D.
  • Director, The Doleys Clinic
  • Director, The Pain and Rehabilitation Institute, Birmingham, Alabama
  • Immediate Past President, Southern Pain Society

"Practical Guidelines for Office-based Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain"
Graham Hughes, MD, FRCP
  • Professor of Medicine, St. Thomas Hospital
  • Founder and Director, The London Lupus Centre, London Bridge Hospital
  • Founder and Editor, Lupus, London, England, UK

1) Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
2) B Cell Depletion in Lupus
Iain MacInnes, FRCP, PhD, FRSE
  • Head of Division Immunology, Infection and Inflammation
  • Professor of Experimental Medicine, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

1) New therapeutic targets in RA
    Can the Promise of Immunology Deliver More?

2) Vascular Co-Morbidity in Rheumatic Diseases
    Mechanisms and Management Challenges

William Maixner, D.D.S., Ph.D.
  • Kenan Distinguished Professor
  • Professor and Director, Center for Neurosensory Disorders, School of Dentistry
  • Professor of Phramacology, School of Medicine
  • University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

"Unraveling Persistent Pain Conditions,
such as TMJ Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, with Network Research"

Joan Merrill, M.D.
  • Member and Program Chair, Clinical Pharmacology Research Program
  • Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY

1) Options in management of mild-moderate-severe lupus
2) Update of treatments in development for lupus
Ego Seeman, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Professor, Department of Medicine, Endocrinology Division, Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

1) Bone quality - The Material and Structural Basis of
    Bone Strength and its Decay

2) Cortical porosity - don't throw the baby out
3) Osteoporosis Treatment - advances and challenges
Philip Seo, M.D., MHS
  • Co-Director, the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Advances in the use of biologic agents in the treatment of systemic vasculitis
Practice Management Faculty

Jean Acevedo, LHRM, CPC, CHC
  • Acevedo Consulting Incorporated, Delray Beach, Florida

(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About PQRI
Charles King, II, MD
  • Rheumatology, IMA Foundation, Tupelo, MS

EHR use in Rheumatology:
What I know now that I wish I knew before....

William McClatchey, MD
  • Rheumatology, Piedmont Physicians Group, Atlanta, GA

EHR use in Rheumatology:
What I know now that I wish I knew before....

Michael Schweitz, MD
  • Rheumatology, Arthritis & Rheumatology Associates of Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL
  • President, Coalition of State Rheumatology Organizations (CSRO)

RAC (CMS' Recovery audit contractor medical necessity audits)
Michael Upchurch, J.D.
  • Frazer Greene, Mobile, AL

Malpractice in the Electronic Medical Era