A project of the Fondation RES
Virtual Advanced Course on Management of Connective Tissue Diseases
Dermatomyositis - Systemic Sclerosis
Virtual JIR Winter School from 18th to 19th of March 2022

Virtual JIR Winter School
Format
Worldwide specialists will go through the field of Connective Tissue disease with:
State of the art lectures
Clinical cases discussions
Complicated or unsolved cases
This unique event is designed for all physicians interested in this topic. The sessions will be broadcasted through Zoom® and a voting app will be used to interact with the speaker.
The recording of the event will be accessible to all registered participants until end of May 2022.
Timetable
Morning in America (Brasilia 9:00AM - 2:30PM)
Afternoon in Europe (Zürich 1:00PM - 6:30PM)
Evening in Asia (Mumbai 5:30PM - 11PM)
Speakers (confirmed)
Alexandre Belot, Lyon, France
Alice Hatchouel, Paris, France
Angela Migowa, Nairobi, Kenya
Brian Feldman, Toronto, Canada
Caroline Vinit, Paris, France
Christian Hedrich, Liverpool, UK
Claudia Saad Magalhaes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Francesco Zulian, Padova, Italy
Helmut Wittkowski, Münster, Germany
Ivan Foeldvari, Hamburg, Germany
Katerina Theodoropoulou, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lisa Rider, Bethesda, USA
Manel Mejbri, Geneva, Switzerland
Marco Gattorno, Genoa, Italy
Michaël Hofer, Lausanne, Switzerland
Mohammed Tikly, Johannesburg, South Africa
Natasa Toplak, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Raffaella Carlomagno, Lausanne, Switzerland
Soad Hashad, Tripoli, Libya
Sujata Sawhney, New Delhi, India
Sylvia Kamphuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Teresa Giani, Florence, Italy
Wafa Hamdi, Tunis, Tunisia
Yulia Vyzhga, Vinnytsia, Ukrain
Moderators
Michaël Hofer, Lausanne, Switzerland
Raju Khubchandani, Mumbai, India
JIR Academy Regional Coordinators
Claudia Saad Magalhaes, PANLAR
Wafa Hamdi, PAFLAR
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Program
Friday 18th of March 2022
Welcome and Registration
8:45 - 9:00AM (Brasilia)
0:45 - 1:00PM (Zurich)
5:15 - 5:30PM (Mumbai)
Introduction and technical test
Systemic Sclerosis: Managing many faces
9:00 - 10:00AM (Brasilia)
1:00 - 2:00PM (Zurich)
5:30 - 6:30PM (Mumbai)
Skin disease and GI effects (I. Foeldvari)
Renal crisis and cardiac complications (F. Zulian)
Tribute to a friend
10:00 - 11:00AM (Brasilia)
2:00 - 3:00PM (Zurich)
6:30 - 7:30PM (Mumbai)
Tribute to a friend
Break
11:00 - 11:15AM (Brasilia)
3:00 - 3:15PM (Zurich)
7:30 - 7:45PM (Mumbai)
Systemic Sclerosis continued
11:15AM - 0:45PM (Brasilia)
3:15 - 4:45PM (Zurich)
7:45 - 9:15PM (Mumbai)
Managing ILD in connective tissue disease (A. Hatchouel)
Management of Raynaud phenomenon (C. Hedrich)
Early aggressive therapy, where are we? (M. Tikly)
Break
0:45 - 1:00PM (Brasilia)
4:45 - 5:00PM (Zurich)
9:15 - 9:30PM (Mumbai)
Systemic Sclerosis concluded
1:00 - 1:30PM (Brasilia)
5:00 - 5:30PM (Zurich)
9:30 - 10:00PM (Mumbai)
Cases and general discussion (case: K. Koryllou)
Clinical Practice Strategies (CliPS)
1:30 - 2:30PM (Brasilia)
5:30 - 6:30PM (Zurich)
10:00 - 11:00PM (Mumbai)
Lupus Nephritis (S. Kamphuis)
IgA vasculitis: current knowledge & new challenges (T. Giani)
Optional Workshop Registration
3:00 - 4:30PM (Brasilia)
7:00 - 8:30PM (Zurich)
11:30 - 1:00AM (Mumbai)
Challenging case in SLE (A. Belot + R. Carlomagno) Share your case in SLE and get advice from experts and other delegates
Program
Saturday 19th of March 2022
Optional Workshop
Registration
6:30 - 8:00AM (Brasilia)
10:30 - 12:00AM (Zurich)
3:00 - 4:30PM (Mumbai)
Challenging case in JDM (H. Wittkowski). Share your challenging cases in JDM and get advice from the experts and other delegates.
JDM (part 1)
9:00 - 10:30AM (Brasilia)
1:00 - 2:30PM (Zurich)
5:30 - 7:00PM (Mumbai)
Monitoring disease activity and damage in JDM (C. Saad Magalhaes)
Management of the routine case and identifying the odd one (S. Sawhney)
Difficult cases and how I dealt with them (case: N. Perveen)
Break
10:30 - 10:45AM (Brasilia)
2:30 - 2:45PM (Zurich)
7:00 - 7:15PM (Mumbai)
JDM (part 2)
10:45AM - 0:15PM (Brasilia)
2:45 - 4:15PM (Zurich)
7:15 - 8:45PM (Mumbai)
New treatment modalities in JDM (B. Feldman)
What's new in Calcinosis? (L. Rider)
Case and general discussion (case: M. Mejbri)
Break
0:15 - 0:30PM (Brasilia)
4:15 - 4:30PM (Zurich)
8:45 - 9:00PM (Mumbai)
MCTD and Overlap syndromes
0:30 - 1:00PM (Brasilia)
4:30 - 5:00PM (Zurich)
9:00 - 9:30PM (Mumbai)
MCTD and Overlap syndromes (A. Migowa + W. Hamdi)
Clinical Practice Strategies (CliPS)
1:00 - 2:30PM (Brasilia)
5:00 - 6:30PM (Zurich)
9:30 - 11:00PM (Mumbai)
PFAPA and SURF (N. Toplak + M. Gattorno)
Biologics in SoJIA (S. Hashad + K. Theodoropoulou + Y. Vyzhga)
Real-life Indications of anti-IL-1 in hereditary recurrent fevers (C. Vinit)
Practical information
Technology
The Virtual JIR Winter School will be accessible with the visioconference app Zoom®. There is no need to have your own Zoom® account, but you must install the zoom app on your device (free). A link will be sent before the event to all participants to join the sessions. We recommend to use Zoom® on a large screen (computer, laptop, TV) to be able to read the informations from the speaker's presentation. Connection with a tablet or smartphone is possible but not recommended.
The mentimeter voting app will be used to interact during the sessions. The app can be reached on a smartphone's browser through a link indicated during the session. No need to install any app or register on mentimeter.
The recording of the event will be accessible to all participants until end of May 2022.
Registration Fee
Early registration (extended until 7.02.2022)
Virtual meeting: 80€
registration from 08.02.2021
Virtual meeting: 100€
This registration fee includes: Access to all the Virtual JIR Winter School sessions live (Friday - Saturday) with participation credits from the Swiss Pediatric Society.
Discount
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