ACR/ARHP - Preview 2008 - (Page 1) New this year Guided Poster Tours — led by experts Guided poster tours, led by experts in the field, will take small groups of attendees through the poster presentations, highlighting novel or recent developments. Selected posters from a variety of abstract categories will be included. Abstracts — improved indexing Educational offerings for clinicians bolstered at annual meeting BENcH-to-BEdsIdE Is A tERm usEd IN the medical field to describe the translation of researchers’ work to practicing physicians and health care professionals. While the 2008 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting will continue to offer a wide variety of educational and networking opportunities for those at the bench, it will also offer rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals at the bedside a number of sessions specifically focused on their daily work in clinical practice. “We’ve always tried to capture all constituents of the College’s membership — basic scientists, people in clinical practice, and educators,” says Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD, Chair of the 2008 Annual Meeting Planning Committee. However, in recent years, Dr. Mandell and the ACR committee on education have worked to increase the presence of fulltime clinicians in practice on the planning committee, and he hopes this increase will be evident this year in the offerings geared See Clinician offerings on page 6 Abstracts that report results of a clinical trial not yet approved by a regulatory agency have been indexed by trial phase. Advanced Practice Skills Training Course — hands-on training This pre-conference course is designed to provide adult and pediatric nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians with the basic knowledge and skills needed to work in a rheumatology practice. Attendees will receive hands-on training to perform a joint exam, calculate scores using the Health Assessment Questionnaire and DAS28, and practice intra-articular injections on joint prosthetics. Expanded Encore Theater — no need to miss a session For your convenience, selected ACR sessions will be recorded and replayed in the Encore Theater and at selected hotels! Study Groups — new times Study groups will be held Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon. Audioconference Theaters — bring your lunch and enjoy! This October, more than 11,000 scientific attendees are expected to gather in San Francisco for the 2008 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting, the world’s largest annual gathering of physicians, scientists, and health care professionals devoted to rheumatology. If you missed a session from the 2007 or 2008 Rheumatology Audioconference Series, meet your colleagues in the theater as we replay selected sessions. Two sessions will be replayed simultaneously, Monday through Wednesday. Expert to explain latest pain management strategies in ARHP keynote address IN tHE ARHP KEyNotE AddREss At this year’s Annual Scientific Meeting, rheumatologist Robert M. Bennett, MD, FRCP, will draw distinctions between nociceptive and non-nociceptive pain and discuss management strategies for each. Dr. Bennett’s one-hour presentation, “The Contemporary Understanding, Evaluation and Management of Pain in Rheumatology Patients,” begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, October 26. “Rheumatologists are used to dealing with pain, but on the other hand rheumatologists don’t consider themselves to be pain doctors,” said Dr. Bennett, Professor of Medicine and Nursing at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, where he Robert M. Bennett, MD, FRCP Registration Confirmations — bring your barcode with you and breeze through registration was Chairman of the Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases for 24 years. “They’re taught about the management of rheumatoid arthritis or lupus and are very good at that, but when patients continue with pain even though they’re appropriately treated for the arthritis, it then becomes more of a problem.” Dr. Bennett will address the anatomy and pathophysiology of central sensitization, which results in non-nociceptive pain, including a discussion of the ascending and descending pathways. Nonnociceptive pain, or pain that originates in the nervous system rather than tissue, is often a challenge for rheumatology clinicians. “Chronic pain over a period of time does lead to changes in the See ARHP keynote on page 4 If you register before the October 19 deadline, use the barcode on your confirmation notice to speed through the registration and material pick-up area. If you register after October 19 or plan to register on site, please visit the on-site registration desk located in the North Lobby. Rheumatology Educator — new lecture series This series has been designed to meet the ACGME requirement that all subspecialty program directors and key teaching faculty participate in a continuing education activity related to teaching or the process of medical education. 1800 Century Place, Suite 250 Atlanta, GA 30345-4300 ACR SessionSelect All ACR/ARHP scientific registrants will receive complimentary online access to more than 90% of the educational sessions (ticketed and abstract sessions not included) for one full year! This added bonus will begin two weeks after the meeting and will include two viewing options: webcasts and downloadable vodcasts. http://www.rheumatology.org
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