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Japan College of Rheumatology

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Overseas Invited Speakers and Chairs

Alphabetical order

Daniel Aletaha Division of Rheumatology, Medical University Vienna, Austria
Daniel Aletaha

Special Symposium 3(EULAR Session)

Date: April 19 (Fri) 15:10-17:10
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: EULAR: past, present, and future

International Concurrent Workshop 5

Date: April 18 (Thu) 9:40 -10:40
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Paul Bird St. George Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Paul Bird

International Concurrent Workshop 10

Date: April 18 (Thu) 15:30-16:30
Venue: Room 9 (502, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Luncheon Seminar 14

Date: April 18 (Thu) 12:15-13:15
Venue: Room 15 (2A Meeting Room, 2F, No.2 Building, Kobe International Exhibition Hall)
Role: Speaker
Title: Clinical significance of IL-23 in the treatment of Psoriatic arthritis
Gerd R. Burmester Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Gerd R. Burmester

Special Symposium 3(EULAR Session)

Date: April 19 (Fri) 15:10-17:10
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Getting the diagnosis right: now and in the future - rheumatoid arthritis as an example

International Concurrent Workshop 7

Date: April 18 (Thu) 14:20-15:20
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Luncheon Seminar 3

Date: April 18 (Thu) 12:15-13:15
Venue: Room 4 (Ohwada C, 1F, South Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: The Role of Interleukin-6 in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Morning Seminar 14

Date: April 20 (Sat) 7:30-8:30
Venue: Room 11 (International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: NEW PARADIGM IN THE TREATMENT OF RA: EVOLUTION FROM MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES TO JAK-INHIBITORS - THE NEW ERA
Hugh C. Caterson Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Hugh C. Caterson

Special Symposium 2(APLAR Session)

Date: April 19 (Fri) 8:40-10:40
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Systemic autoinflammatory disease in adults: diagnostic approach and treatment
Adam P. Croft Rheumatology Research Group, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Adam P. Croft

Symposium 15(国際委員会企画)

Date: April 20 (Sat) 8:40-11:10
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Fibroblasts as regulators of inflammation and damage in arthritis

International Concurrent Workshop 13

Date: April 19 (Fri) 8:40-9:40
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Samar Al Emadi Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
Samar Al Emadi

Special Symposium 2(APLAR Session)

Date: April 19 (Fri) 8:40-10:40
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Pregnancy and Rheumatic diseases in APLAR region
Bruno Fautrel Sorbonne University, France / Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris, France
Bruno Fautrel

Symposium 4(国際委員会企画)

Date: April 18 (Thu) 9:30-12:00
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Still’s disease: EULAR / PReS guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Still’s disease

International Concurrent Workshop 37

Date: April 20 (Sat) 15:40-16:40
Venue: Room 9 (502, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Andrea Fava Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Andrea Fava

Special Symposium 4(ACR Session)

Date: April 20 (Sat) 14:30-16:30
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: A Systems Biology Approach to Lupus Nephritis

International Concurrent Workshop 12

Date: April 18(Thu)15:30-16:30
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Roy M. Fleischmann University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Roy M. Fleischmann

TREG Session

Date: April 20 (Sat) 9:10-11:10
Venue: Room 1(Portopia Hall, 1F, South Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: New molecules in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus(SLE),
Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA), Sjögren’s(pSS), Systemic
Sclerosis(dSSc) and Behcet’s disease(BD) presented at EULAR and ACR 2023

International Concurrent Workshop 11

Date: April 18 (Thu) 14:20-15:20
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Morning Seminar 13

Date: April 20 (Sat) 7:30-8:30
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Upadacitinib 2024: Thoughts on Long Term Safety/Efficacy in RA and Appropriate Use
Allan Gibofsky Hospital for Special Surgery-Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, USA
Allan Gibofsky

TREG Session

Date: April 20 (Sat) 9:10-11:10
Venue: Room 1(Portopia Hall, 1F, South Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: Update from ACR Convergence 2023: Systemic Lupus
Erythematosus (SLE) and Autoimmune Rheumatic Disorders
Stuart B. Goodman Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Stuart B. Goodman

Educational Lecture 17

Date: April 19 (Fri) 15:15-16:15
Venue: Room 14(Convention Hall South, 1F, No.2 Building, Kobe International Exhibition Hall)
Role: Lecturer
Title: Osteoarthritis: Current Knowledge and Treatment from the Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Perspective

International Concurrent Workshop 34

Date: April 20 (Sat) 14:30-15:30
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Susan M. Goodman Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC, USA
Susan M. Goodman

Educational Lecture 18

Date: April 19 (Fri) 16:25-17:25
Venue: Room 14(Convention Hall South, 1F, No.2 Building, Kobe International Exhibition Hall)
Role: Lecturer
Title: Perioperative Risk Mitigation: Guideline for Perioperative Care of the Rheumatic Disease Patient
Latika Gupta University of Manchester, UK / Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, UK
Latika Gupta

Symposium 19(J-STAR Session)

Date: April 20 (Sat) 14:40-16:40
Venue: Room 7(Kairaku 3, B1, Main Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: EMEUNET- aspirational goals for a harmonised community

International Concurrent Workshop 18

Date: April 19(Fri)9:50-10:50
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Bernhard Hellmich Medius Kliniken, University of Tübingen, Kirchheim-Teck, Germany
Bernhard Hellmich

Symposium 4(国際委員会企画)

Date: April 18 (Thu) 9:30-12:00
Venue: Room 11(Kobe International Conference Center International Conference Room)
Role: Speaker
Title: Update on treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis

International Concurrent Workshop 8

Date: April 18(Thu)15:30-16:30
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway / Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Anna Maria Hoffmann-vold

International Concurrent Workshop 14

Date: April 19 (Fri) 9:50-10:50
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Study design of the FIBRONEER-ILD trial of BI 1015550 in patients with progressive pulmonary fibrosis and a comparison with the INBUILD trial of nintedanib

International Concurrent Workshop 32

Date: April 20 (Sat) 8:50-9:50
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Luncheon Seminar 11

Date: April 18 (Thu) 12:15-13:15
Venue: Room 12 (Main Hall, 1F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Update on the management of ILD in rheumatic diseases
Mary B. Humphrey Deparment of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma, USA
Mary Beth Humphrey

Symposium 7(国際委員会企画)

Date: April 18 (Thu) 14:05-16:35
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Fracture-risk in patients with glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
Annamaria Iagnocco University of Turin, Italy
Annamaria Iagnocco

Special Symposium 3(EULAR Session)

Date: April 19 (Fri) 15:10-17:10
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Imaging and AI in rheumatology

International Concurrent Workshop 6

Date: April 18 (Thu) 10:50-11:50
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Pierre Antoine Juge Service de Rhumatologie, Hopital Bichat Claude Bernard, Paris, France
Pierre Antoine Juge

Symposium 19(J-STAR Session)

Date: April 20 (Sat) 14:40-16:40
Venue: Room 7(Kairaku 3, B1, Main Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: Developing a EULAR network of early career researchers
dedicated to lung diseases in inflammatory rheumatisms

International Concurrent Workshop 24

Date: April 19(Fri)16:25-17:25
Venue: Room 9 (502, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Markku J. Kauppi Faculty of Medicine, Clinicum, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland / Päijät-Häme Central Hospital, Lahti, Finland
Markku J. Kauppi

Meet the Expert 12

Date: April 19 (Fri) 9:50-10:50
Venue: MTE Room 1(401, 4F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Lecturer
Title: Physical examination of an arthritis or spondyloarthritis patient.
The Scandinavian way to perform it

International Concurrent Workshop 27

Date: April 19 (Fri) 16:25-17:25
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Arthur Kavanaugh University of California, San Diego. La Jolla, California, USA
Arthur Kavanaugh

TREG Session

Date: April 20 (Sat) 9:10-11:10
Venue: Room 1(Portopia Hall, 1F, South Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: Progress in the Therapeutic Approach to Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA)

International Concurrent Workshop 21

Date: April 19(Fri)16:25-17:25
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
George Kollias Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece / Biomedical Sciences Research Center ‘Alexander Fleming’, Vari, Attica, Greece
George Kollias

Symposium 15(国際委員会企画)

Date: April 20 (Sat) 8:40-11:10
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair and Speaker
Title: FIBROBLAST-DRIVEN PATHOGENIC MECHANISMS IN JOINT/GUT AXIS DISEASES

International Concurrent Workshop 17

Date: April 19 (Fri) 8:40-9:40
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Gerhard Krönke Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Gerhard Krönke

Symposium 15(国際委員会企画)

Date: April 20 (Sat) 8:40-11:10
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Synovial Macrophage in Joint Homeostasis and Inflammation

International Concurrent Workshop 25

Date: April 19 (Fri) 14:05-15:05
Venue: Room 10 (504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Mart A F J van de Laar University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
Mart Van Der Laar

International Concurrent Workshop 31

Date: April 20(Sat)10:00-11:00
Venue: Room 9 (502, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Evening Seminar 2

Date: April 18 (Thu) 16:45-18:15
Venue: Room 5 (Kairaku 1, B1, Main Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: Baricitinib versus TNF-inhibitors in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis:
a Pragmatic, Multicenter, Real-Life Study in a Treat-to-Target Setting after failing csDMARDs
Jose Paulo Lorenzo APLAR President-Elect / Makati Medical Center and the University of the Philippines, Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH), Philippines
Jose Paulo Lorenzo

International Concurrent Workshop 9

Date: April 18 (Thu) 14:20-15:20
Venue: Room 9(502, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

International Concurrent Workshop 26

Date: April 19 (Fri) 15:15-16:15
Venue: Room 10(504+505, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair
Iain B. McInnes College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences (MVLS), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Iain B. McInnes

Special Symposium 3(EULAR Session)

Date: April 19 (Fri) 15:10-17:10
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Management of Psoriatic Arthritis

International Concurrent Workshop 14

Date: April 19 (Fri) 9:50-10:50
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Luncheon Seminar 12

Date: April 18 (Thu) 12:05-13:15
Venue: Room 13 (Convention Hall North, 1F, No.2 Building, Kobe International Exhibition Hall)
Role: Speaker and Chair
Title: The future of RA treatment – no more guesswork?

Evening Seminar 18

Date: April 19 (Fri) 17:40-19:10
Venue: Room 15 (2A Meeting Room, 2F, No.2 Building, Kobe International Exhibition Hall)
Role: Speaker
Title: Pathologic significance of IL-17A&F in the spondyloarthritis disease spectrum
Masato Nagao University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Masato Nagao

Meet the Expert 11

Date: April 19 (Fri) 8:40-9:40
Venue: MTE Room 1(401, 4F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Lecturer
Title: Keys to musculoskeletal physical exam
Christopher Ritchlin Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Division, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Christopher Ritchlin

Special Symposium 4(ACR Session)

Date: April 20 (Sat) 14:30-16:30
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Pathologic Bone Resorption and New Bone Formation in Psoriatic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Implications for Therapy

TREG Session

Date: April 20 (Sat) 9:10-11:10
Venue: Room 1(Portopia Hall, 1F, South Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: Review of Spondyloarthritis Abstracts at the November 2023 American College of Rheumatology Meeting

International Concurrent Workshop 1

Date: April 18 (Thu) 9:40-10:40
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Morning Seminar 14

Date: April 20 (Sat) 7:30-8:30
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Psoriatic and Rheumatoid Arthritis: Distinctive and Overlapping Features
Kenneth G. Saag Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Kenneth G. Saag

Symposium 7(国際委員会企画)

Date: April 18 (Thu) 14:05-16:35
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: New Evidence of Bone Safety of Glucocorticoids in the treatment of Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases
Nina Santavirta Faculty of Edulational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Nina Santavirta

Representative Session

Date: April 19 (Fri) 11:00-11:50
Venue: Room 1(Portopia Hall, 1F, South Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: From Housewife to Prime Minister. Reflections on Finland’s Way towards a Gender Equal Society
Georg Schett Department of Internal Medicine 3 Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Georg Schett

International Concurrent Workshop 19

Date: April 19(Fri)14:05-15:05
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Evening Seminar 9

Date: April 19 (Fri) 17:40-19:10
Venue: Room 2 (Ohwada A, 1F, South Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: The Potential of IL-6 in Autoimmune Diseases from the Perspective of new imaging modality
Farzana Shumy Square Hospitals Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Farzana Shumy

Special Symposium 2(APLAR Session)

Date: April 19 (Fri) 8:40-10:40
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Musculoskeletal ultrasound for Rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases in resource limited set up
Josef S. Smolen Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine 3, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Josef S. Smolen

Special Symposium 3(EULAR Session)

Date: April 19 (Fri) 15:10-17:10
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: Management of rheumatoid arthritis

International Concurrent Workshop 4

Date: April 18 (Thu) 10:50-11:50
Venue: Room 9 (502, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Morning Seminar 7

Date: April 19 (Fri) 7:30-8:30
Venue: Room 12 (Main Hall, 1F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Speaker
Title: 2022 Updated EULAR RA Management Recommendations in a Global Perspective
Peter C. Taylor Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
Peter C. Taylor

Symposium 4(国際委員会企画)

Date: April 18 (Thu) 9:30-12:00
Venue: Room 11(International Conference Room, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair and Speaker
Title: Management options in “difficult to treat” rheumatoid arthritis

International Concurrent Workshop 23

Date: April 19(Fri)15:15-16:15
Venue: Room 9 (502, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

Luncheon Seminar 1

Date: April 18 (Thu) 12:15-13:15
Venue: Room 2 (Ohwada A, 1F, South Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: Modern management strategies for RA: achieving clinical
and structural remission with filgotinib

Luncheon Seminar 16

Date: April 19 (Fri) 12:05-13:05
Venue: Room 3 (Ohwada B, 1F, South Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: Modernizing the clinical approach to RA management by
preventing structural joint damage: the JAK inhibitor filgotinib
Meng-Ko Tsai Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan / Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Armed Forces General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan / Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Meng-Ko Tsai

Symposium 19(J-STAR Session)

Date: April 20 (Sat) 14:40-16:40
Venue: Room 7(Kairaku 3, B1, Main Building, Kobe Portopia Hotel)
Role: Speaker
Title: From clinical observation to data analysis: a case report on
IgG4-related kidney disease and evaluating infection risks of
rituximab in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated
vasculitis through network meta-analysis

International Concurrent Workshop 2

Date: April 18 (Thu) 10:50-11:50
Venue: Room 8 (501, 5F, Kobe International Conference Center)
Role: Chair

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