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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