List of topics

(subject to slight changes)

• Systemic approach to diagnosis
• Clinical epidemiology – Critical appraisal of evidence
• Clinical epidemiology - Impact of the rheumatic diseases
• Immunology and the rheumatic diseases
• Rheumatoid arthritis: pathogenesis, clinical aspects and diagnosis
• Rheumatoid arthritis: treatment
• Seronegative spondylarthropathies: pathogenesis, clinical aspects and diagnosis
• Seronegative spondylarthropathies: treatment
• Crystal arthropathies and septic arthritis
• Miscellaneous inflammatory arthritides: Adult’s Still disease, sarcoidosis; palindromic rheumatism; paraneoplastic arthritis, hypertrophic osteoarthropathy.
• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritides (JIA).
• Infection and arthritis. Reactive arthritis, Lyme, Whipple, HIV, viral arthritis, Hepatitis C,…
• Measure of disease activity and damage in inflammatory arthritis
• Early arthritis: diagnosis and management
• Genetics for rheumatologists
• Psycho-social dimensions of the rheumatic diseases
• Imaging, including ultrasound
• Connective tissue diseases: concepts and pathogenesis, overlap syndromes, mixed connective tissue disease and undifferentiated connective tissue disease
• Systemic lupus erythematosus: pathogenesis, clinical manifestations and diagnosis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus: treatment
• Antiphospholipid syndrome
• Systemic sclerosis
• Polymyositis, dermatomyositis
• Sjögren’s syndrome, lymphoproliferation in autoimmune diseases
• Vasculitis: Classification, Anca-related vasculitides
• Vasculitis: other vasculitides
• Behçet’s disease, polychondritis, eye symptoms in rheumatic diseases

Further topics (still subject to slight changes):

• Autoinflammatory Syndromes
• Systemic consequences of the inflammatory process: amyloidosis, anemia, atherosclerosis, …
• Rheumatic manifestations of systemic diseases/Miscellaneous rheumatic diseases
• The skin and the rheumatic diseases
• Mechanisms of tissue breakdown and repair
• Rheumatic manifestations of tropical diseases
• Osteoarthritis: pathegenesis, clinical aspects and diagnosis
• Osteoarthritis: treatment
• Low back pain (including sciatica and DISH)
• Regional pain syndromes (including reflex sympathetic dystrophy)
• Generalized pain syndromes (including Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome)
• Osteoporosis: pathogenesis, clinical aspects and diagnosis
• Osteoporosis: treatment
• Other bone diseases: osteomalacia, Paget's disease; renal osteodystrophy; osteomyelitis, osteonercrose
• PMR
• Systemic manifestations of primary immune deficiencies and FAS deficiencies
• Malignant bone diseases (including new concepts and therapies as they apply to Rh. Dis.)
• Pain: mechanisms and management
• Prinicples of rehabilitation
• Glucocorticoids
• Cryoglobulinemia and systemic manifestations of hepatitis C virus
• Cell and gene therapy in rheumatic diseases
• Neuroendocrine Immunology

Scientific Committee

Bijlsma Hans, Chair

Burmester Gerd, Convenvor

da Silva José, Convenor

Faarvang Karen Lisbeth, Convenor

Hachulla Eric, Convenor

Mariette Xavier, Convenor

Dennick Reg, Educationalist

Schadeli Steve, Webmaster

Joly Catherine, Administration

Faculty - List

(already agreed)

Bergman Stefan
Bertolacchini Maria Laura
Bombardieri Stefano
Bresnihan Barry
Burmester Gerd
Cervera Ricard
Combe Bernard
Cope Andrew
Cornelis François
Dani Lara
da Silva José A.P.
D'Cruz David
Denton Christopher

Dijkmans Ben
Distler Jörg
Distler Oliver
Dougados Maxime
Duarte Catia
Eklund Kari
Emery Paul
Espinosa Gerard
Estellat Candice
Faarvang Karen Lisbeth
Fresko Izzet
Geenen Rinie
Gottenberg Jacques-Eric
Guillevin Loic
Haibel Hildrun
Huizinga Tom
Jacobs Johannes
Kalden Joachim
Kallenberg Cees G.M.
Kamashta Munther

Klareskog Lars
Kvien Tore
Landewé Robert
Lapraik Chloé
Leirisalo-Repo Marjatta
Lundberg Ingrid

Luqmani Raashid
Mariette Xavier
Matucci-Cerinic Marco
Mc Innes Iain
Mielants Herman
Miniati Irene
Mosca Marta
Mulligan Kathleen
Nam Jackie
Newman Stanton P.
Ostensen Monika
Ostergaard Mikkel
Özen Seza
Pagnoux Christian
Pascual Eliseo
Pfleger Bruce

Ravaud Philippe
Scherer Ulrich
Schmidt Wolfgang
Schulze-Koops Hendrik
Scott David G.I.
Shoenfeld Yehuda
Sieper Joachim
Sivera Francisca
Skapenko Alla
Southwood Taunton R.
Stübiger Nicole

Theander Elke
Torgerson David 
van de Laar Mart A.F.J.
van der Heijde Désirée
van der Helm Annette
van Laar Jacob M.
Vencovsky Jiri
Vonkeman Harald E.
Wakefield Richard
Woolf Anthony
Yazici Hasan