Previous Events

YEAR	DATE	TOPIC	DESCRIPTION
2022	05/20/22	Fellows Forum	19th Annual Fellows Forum will be held in-person at the Bethesda Pooks Hill Marriott. The program will feature oral presentations from the top 4 selected abstracts and a poster viewing period where members will vote on the best posters.
2022	04/20/22	Update on IgG4-related Disease	Dr. John Stone is Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Rheumatology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the world leader in the field of IgG4-related disease research.
2022	03/09/22	Update on Scleroderma	Dr. Virginia Steen is Professor of Medicine and Director of Division of Rheumatology at Georgetown University Hospital. She is an internationally renowned expert in Scleroderma. She received many awards, including Lifetime Achievement Award from Scleroderma Foundation for her contribution to the field of Scleroderma.
2022	02/09/22	Update on Lupus	Dr. Michelle Petri is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of Hopkins Lupus Center. Dr. Petri is the Director of the Hopkins Lupus Cohort, a longitudinal study of morbidity and mortality in Lupus and Co-Director of the Hopkins Lupus Pregnancy Center.
2021	1/13/2021	Osteoarthritis-new therapies	Marc C. Hochberg, MD, MPH, received his M.D. and M.P.H. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he also completed his residency and fellowship. He was a member of the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1977 to 1991. He now is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health and Division Chief of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Hochberg’s research focuses on the clinical epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders, particularly osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
2020	12/9/2020	Osteoporosis- updates on Management and Treatment	Dr. Harold Rosen is an Endocrinologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has over 60 publications related to osteoporosis and is considered one of the national KOLs in this field. He will be presenting on updates and management of this this disease.
2020	10/14/2020	Updates in lupus	Dr. Susan Manzi is Chair of the LFA Board of Directors and also serves as the Foundation’s Acting Medical Director. Dr. Manzi is chair of Allegheny Health Network Medicine Institute and director of its Lupus Center of Excellence. She is a Vice Chair and Professor at Temple University. Dr. Manzi is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in lupus patient care and research, and a pioneer in scientific investigation of cardiovascular disease in patients with lupus.
2020	9/9/2020	Updates on COVID-19 and Rheumatic diseases	Dr. Philip Robinson is a rheumatologist in Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Robinson heads the COVID-19 registry for the Global Rheumatology Alliance, a group that is tracking COVID-19 cases in rheumatology patients worldwide. The group recently published the first set of data from registry in the journal Lancet Rheumatology.
2020	5/20/2020	18th Annual Fellows Forum Night - CANCELED	Come out to see all the great research and cases being presented by fellows and other trainees in the DC area. Due to the popularity of last years format, again we will host this event in the evening with dinner and drinks. Awards to the top research and posters will be given along with oral presentations of the most outstanding research.
2020	4/8/2020	Psoriatic Arthritis - CANCELED	Dr. Chris Ritchlin is the Chief of the Division of Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Ritchlin is also the Director of the Clinical Immunology Research Unit where he is the principle investigator on several clinical trials testing the efficacy of anti-TNF agents and other biologic molecules in the treatment of psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.
2020	4/4/2020	15th Annual Kenneth Austin Rheumatology Symposium - CANCELED	The 15th Annual Kenneth Austin Rheumatology Symposium at Howard University Hospital will be held on April 4, 2020 from 7:00 am to 1:40 pm. This annual activity is made available to regional doctors, nurses, and physician assistants interested in advancing their knowledge of common rheumatic conditions. RSVPs to this event can only be made HERE.
2020	3/11/2020	Updates in Vasculitis - CANCELED	Dr. Carol Langford joined Cleveland Clinic in 2004 to become Director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research within the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and was named Vice-Chair of Rheumatology for Research in 2007. In 2011 she became the Harold C. Schott endowed Chair in Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases.
2020	2/12/2020	Gout in 2020	Dr. Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD, is the Section Chief of rheumatology at BU School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC). Dr. Neogi leads an internationally known research team focused on knee osteoarthritis and gout, pain mechanisms in osteoarthritis and methodologic issues in rheumatic diseases. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles.Dr. Neogi is a recipient of the prestigious Henry Kunkel Young Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology, the Young Investigator Award from the Osteoarthritis Research Society International and the Robert Dawson Evans Research Mentoring Award from BUSM�s department of medicine.
2019	12/11/2019	Headaches, Demyelination and Neuromyelitis Optica	Dr. Amanda Tinsley is an Assistant Professor and General Neurologist in the Department of Neurology at The George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Tinsley received her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She completed a neurology residency at Saint Louis University. Dr. Tinsley has a special interest in headache disorders and multiple sclerosis. Her academic interests include multiple sclerosis research, medical student education and resident education.
2019	10/9/2019	JAK: Past, Present, Future	Dr. John O�Shea, is the Chief of the Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch and current Scientific Director at NIAMS. Dr. O'Shea has authored more than 225 articles. His area of scientific interest is cytokine signal transduction, dissecting the role of Jaks and Stats family transcription in immunoregulation.
2019	10/5/2019	Ultrasound For Rheumatologists: Wrists, Hands, Ankles and Feet	This years ultrasound course will focus on wrists, ankles, hands and feet. This popular course fills up fast so reserve you spot early. Please note that all RSVPs must be done using THIS form. You can read more about the course and download a flyer HERE
2019	9/11/2019	Cardiac Amyloid	Dr. Joseph Krepp is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the GW School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Stony Brook and completed his internship and residency training at Weill Cornell New York Presbyterian Hospital. He subsequently completed his fellowship training in Cardiovascular Disease at Georgetown University/Washington Hospital Center, where he served as a Chief Cardiology Fellow. Dr. Krepp is particularly interested in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with valvular heart disease and structural heart disease.
2019	5/15/2019	17th Annual Fellows Forum Night	New format this year! Spend an evening hearing presenations and looking at posters from trainees in the DC region. Vote on the most outstanding posters during the meeting as awards will be given!
2019	4/10/2019	Updates in ANCA Vasculitis	Dr. Eli Miloslavsky, MD: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Co-Director, Vasculitis and Glomerulonephritis Center
2019	3/13/2019	Giant Cell Arteritis/Large Vessel Vasculitis	Dr. Cornelia Weyand, MD, PhD: Chief, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine
2019	2/13/2019	MDA-5 Dermatomyositis	Dr. Lisa Christopher-Stine, MD, MPH: Associate Professor of Medicine and Neurology, Director, Johns Hopkins Myositis Center
2019	1/9/2019	Inflammatory Atherogenesis	Dr. Nehal Mehta, MD, M.S.C.E, F.A.H.A: Chief, Section of Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
2018	11/14/2018	ACR Meeting Review	Dr. John Cush, MD: Director of Clinical Rheumatology for Baylor Scott & White Research Institute and is a Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
2018	9/29/2018	Ultrasound Course	Save the date for this year's ultrasound hosted by Dr. Paul DeMarco and colleagues. Details to follow.
2018	9/12/2018	Hydroxychloroquine Retinal Screening: Are we being myopic?	Sam Lim, MD, MPH: Professor of Medicine & Clinical Director, Emory University School of Medicine Division of Rheumatology Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University Chief of Rheumatology, Grady Health Systems Director, Grady Lupus Clinic and Emory Lupus Clinical Trials Consortium
2018	5/19/2018	16th Annual Fellows Forum	Save the Date! Speaker to be determined.
2018	4/18/2018	Advanced Concepts in the Etiology, Detection, and Management of Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome	Dr. Jane Salmon is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Collette Kean Research Professor at Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr. Salmon�s research has focused on elucidating mechanisms of tissue injury in lupus and other autoimmune diseases. Her basic and clinical studies have expanded our understanding of pregnancy loss and organ damage in SLE and the determinants of disease outcome in lupus patients with nephritis, pregnancy, and cardiovascular disease.
2018	3/14/2018	PD1 Inhibitor Induced Autoimmune Disease. Implications for the Rheumatologist	NEW DATE Dr. Laura Cappelli is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she also completed her medical school, residency and fellowship. Dr. Cappelli's research focuses on different forms inflammatory arthritis. Specifically, she studies a new type of inflammatory arthritis due to immunotherapy treatments for cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
2018	1/17/2018	Autoimmune Neurologic Conditions for the Rheumatologist	Dr. Julius Birnbaum received his M.D. from Columbia and completed his Residency in Neurology at Mount Sinai, a Residency in Internal Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center, and a Rheumatology Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Birnbaum is the only physician in this country who is board-certified in Neurology, Internal Medicine, and Rheumatology. His clinical and research interests pertain to the neurological complications of rheumatic syndromes, with a focus on Sj�gren�s Syndrome.
2017	12/13/2017	Perioperative Management of Biologic and Non-Biologic DMARDs	Dr. Mike George is from The University of Pennsylvania where he also did his fellowship and residency. Dr. George graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He will speak about perioperative management of biologic and non biologic DMARDs.
2017	10/18/2017	Advances in Surgical and Non-Surgical Spine Disease Management	Dr. Seyed Babak (Bobby) Kalantar, MD, is a member of the MedStar Orthopaedic Institute and performs surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Dr. Kalantar is the chief of the Division of Spine Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedics and the Co-Director of MedStar Spine Center.
2017	9/20/2017	IgG4 Related Disease	Dr. Zachary Wallace, is a Georgetown Medical School alumni and now a faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital, who will talk to us about updates on IgG4 related diseases.
2017	3/15/2017	Casing the Joint: How do we manage refractory RA?	Dr. William Rigby is a Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth in Hanover, NH. His research examines the changes that accompany clinical responses in patents with rheumatoid arthritis treated with biologics as well as examining the role of the CD40 ligand and cytokine expression in RA as well as the genetic and epigenetic factors regulating its expression.
2017	2/15/2017	Updates in the Diagnosis and Management of Gout	Dr. Allan Gelber is Professor of Medicine and Deputy Director for Education and Faculty Development in the Division of Rheumatology at Johns Hopkins. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and is Associate Faculty at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Currently, Dr. Gelber serves as Thayer Firm Faculty Leader of the Osler Medical Training Program.
2017	1/18/2017	Metallosis, Hip Replacement Recall and Trunnioniosis	Dr. Raymond Scalettar is one of the longest serving members of the Rheumatism Society of the District of Columbia. Dr. Scalettar and Dr. Robert Bunning of the NRH will give a tag-team approach talk regarding the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of cobalt/chromium poisoning related to metal on metal total hip replacement.
2022	9/14/2022	Autoinflammatory Disease and the Human Condition	Dr. Daniel Kastner, MD PhD National Institutes of Health Distinguished Investigator specializing in the genetics of autoinflammatory disorders. Scientific Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
2022	10/12/2022	Sjogren's disease: lessons learned over the past 15 years	Dr. Alan Baer, MD Professor of Medicine and Director of the Jerome L. Greene Sjogren's Syndrome Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
2023	4/12/2023	Cannabis and the Endocannabinoid System: Considerations in Rheumatology	Dr. Patricia Frye, MD is an Affiliate Associate Professor University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Cannabis Science and Therapeutics; Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics, Board Eligible in Obesity Medicine; Board of Directors – Society of Cannabis Clinicians, Certified in Cannabis Science and Medicine by the University of Vermont, Larner School of Medicine; Co-Chair Maryland Medical Society’s Cannabis Task Force.
2023	01/11/2023	Long COVID	Dr. Cassandra Calabrese, DO is a Rheumatologist in Cleveland, Ohio and is affiliated with Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Calabrese has extensive experience in Osteoporosis & Screening, Rheumatologic Muscular Diseases, and Arthritis & Arthropathy. She received her medical degree from Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens.
2023	2/08/2023	Immune Checkpoint inhibitors and the Rheumatologist	Dr. Laura Capelli, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, and a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center.
2023	3/08/2023	Reproductive Health and Rheumatic Diseases: Update	Dr Arundathi Jayatilleke, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Program, Temple University Hospital.
2023	4/12/2023	Cannabis and the Endocannabinoid System: Considerations in Rheumatology	Dr. Patricia Frye, MD is an Affiliate Associate Professor University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Cannabis Science and Therapeutics; Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics, Board Eligible in Obesity Medicine; Board of Directors – Society of Cannabis Clinicians, Certified in Cannabis Science and Medicine by the University of Vermont, Larner School of Medicine; Co-Chair Maryland Medical Society’s Cannabis Task Force.
2023	5/19/2023	Fellows Forum	We are pleased to announce that the 20th Annual Rheumatism Society of DC Fellows Forum’ will be held in person on Friday, May 19 th , 2023 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm at the Pooks Hill Marriott, Bethesda. The program will feature oral presentations from the top 4 selected abstracts and a poster viewing period where members can vote on the best posters. That plus dinner!