PRELEMINARY PROGRAMME

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

7th November 

MEDINTERNA

“Marriage between Autoimmunity and internal medicine” 

 

OPENING AUTOIMMUNITY MORNING 

 

08h15 – SECRETARIAT DESK

  

09h00 – LECTURE THE DIALOG WITH THE LAB

Chairman – Isabel Abreu |Lisbon, Portugal

How to convey diagnostic information, how clinicians and lab professionals look at lab results, or how we could standardize test interpretation.

João Faro Viana |Lisbon,Portugal 

ANCA 

Xavier Bossuyt |Leuven, Belgium  

 

10h00 – LECTURE SPONSORED BY THERMOFISHER 

To be announced 

 

10h30 – OPENING CEREMONY            

 

11h00 – COFFEE-BREAK 

 

11h30 – LECTURE

Chair – João Pedro Ramos |Porto, Portugal

Use of lab as a tool to a more efficient biologics prescription?

Maria José Sousa |Lisbon, Portugal 

 

12h00 – PLENARY SESSION ON AUTOIMMUNITY RESEARCH 

Chair – Jorge Fortuna |Coimbra, Portugal

What is different about adolescents and young adults with autoimmune rheumatic diseases

John Ioannou |London, UK

Microbiome and Autoimmunity

Rémy G. Burcelin |France 

 

13h00 – LUNCH

ARTHRITIS AFTERNOON 

 

14h30 – LECTURE 4 

Chairman – Carlos Vasconcelos |Porto, Portugal

Fatigue in SLE – can we treat it?

Anisur Rahman |London, UK

Immune system, inflammation and atherosclerosis in SLE

Raashid Luqmani |Oxford, UK

Rationale use of biologics in SLE 

Ian Bruce |Manchester, UK 

 

15h45 – PLENARY SESSION

Chair – Lélita Santos |Coimbra, Portugal

Rock and Roll in Systemic Sclerosis 

Jan Damoiseaux and Pieter van Paassen |Maastricht, The Netherlands 

 

16h30 – COFFE-BREAK 

 

17h00 – PLENARY SESSION

Chairman – Jorge Crespo |Coimbra, Portugal 

Da Fisiopatologia à Terapêutica na DB

To be announced 

The universal role of IL6 and IL1 in autoimmune diseases

José Delgado Alves |Lisbon, Portugal

 

17h45 –– LECTURE

Chairman – Carlos Ferreira |Lisbon, Portugal

IgG4

Bernardo Sopeña |Santiago de Compostela, Spain 

 

18h15 – LECTURE

Chairman – to be announced  

Speaker – António Marinho |Porto, Portugal

Vitamin D as immunomodulator 

 

18h45 – CLOSURE


8th November 

MEDINTERNA 

“Marriage between Autoimmunity and internal medicine”  

 

8th November 

PAM PORTO´S AUTOIMMUNE MEETING  

“Autoinflammatory Syndromes “

 

SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS AND VASCULITIS MORNING

 

08h30 – SECRETARIAT DESK

  

09h00 – PLENARY SESSION 

Severe bone and joint problems in SLE

Chairs- Ricard Cervera and José A. Gómez-Puerta |Barcelona, Spain 

Treatment of Rhupus

Avascular bone necrosis 

Osteoporosis induced by steroids

 

10h15 – LECTURE

Jorge Martins |Funchal, Portugal

Yehuda Shoenfeld |Tel Aviv, Israel  

  

10h45 – COFFEE-BREAK 

 

11h15 – PLENARY SESSION SPONSORED BY ACTELION 

Pulmonary Hypertension in connective tissue diseases 

Chairman– Abílio Reis |Porto, Portugal

Early diagnosis and screening programmes

Mário Santos |Porto, Portugal 

Experience from a European Rare Network referral centre

Luísa Carvalho |Porto, Portugal 

 

12h15 – LECTURE

Chairman – Isabel Almeida |Porto, Portugal

Recent advances in scleroderma clinical trials

Christopher Denton |London, UK

 

12h45 – LECTURE

Chair – Ester Ferreira |Porto, Portugal

What all internists should know about small molecules and biologics

Carlo Selmi |Milan, Italy

 

13h00 – LUNCH

AUTOINFLAMMATORY SYNDROMES 

 

14h30 – AN OVERVIEW OF THE SPECTRUM OF AUTOINFLAMMAT / AUTOIMMUNE DISEAES 

Michael McDermott |Leeds, UK 

 

15h00 – ROUND TABLE 

Chairs: Carlos Vasconcelos |Porto,Portugal and

José Ducla-Soares |Lisbon, Portugal

The Inflamassomes and other Mechanisms involved in Autoinflammatory syndromes

Paulo Pinho e Costa |Potro, Portugal

What you don’t know that you already know about autoinflammatory phenomena or diseases? The “Gout” example

Raquel Faria |Porto, Portugal 

Recurrent Fever: the EuroFever project 

Gattorno 

 

16h30 – COFFE-BREAK 

 

17h00 – COMPLEX AUTOINFLAMMATORY DISEASES I 

Chair: João Araújo Correia | Porto, Portugal

Behçet disease

Sandro Matthieu | Siena, Italy

Gout

Sandro Matthieu| Siena, Italy

MHC-I-pathies -Spondiloarthropaties

Michael McDermott | Leeds, UK 

 

18h30 – LECTURE SPONSORED BY

PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRYMonoclonal Antibodies 

 

21h15 – CONGRESS DINNER


9th November 

PAM PORTO´S AUTOIMMUNE MEETING

“Autoinflammatory Syndromes” 

 

AUTOINFLAMMATORY SYNDROMES 

 

08h00 – SECRETARIAT DESK

 

8h15 – POSTERS | ORAL COMMUNICATION   

 

9h00 – ROUND TABLE

Chairs: António Marinho |Porto, Portugal and Ana Espada de Sousa |Lisbon, Portugal

Autoimmune diseases with autoinflammatory manifestation

Laurent Arnaud |Strasbourg, France

Interferonopathies

Jean Sibilla |Strasbourg, France

The laboratory tests about autoinflammatory syndrom you have to know

Esmeralda Neves |Porto, Portugal

Clinical case 

 

10h30 – COFFE-BREAK 

 

11h00 – ROUND TABLE 

Chairs: Margarida Guedes |Porto, Portugal and Bárbara Guerra Leal | Porto, Portugal

Most common adult autoinflammatory syndromes (FMF, CAPS and TRAPS)

Eurofever Project 

To be announced

Adult onset Still Disease

António Marinho |Porto, Portugal 

Why these diseases happen: Genetics and Epigenetics  

Esteban Balestar |Barcelona, Spain

Clinical case discussion 

 

12h30 LUNCH  

AUTOINFLAMMATORY SYNDROMES 

 

14h00 THE EXPERIENCE OF EUROPEAN CLINICAL CENTRES

Chairs: Laura Marques |Porto, Portugal and 

Susana Lopes da Silva |Lisbon, Portugal

Luca Cantarini| Italy 

Hernández-Rodríguez J| Spain 

Clinical cases discussion 

 

16h00 – COFFE-BREAK  

 

16h30 ROUND TABLE 

Chairs: Mariana Brandão |Porto, Portugal and Nuno Riso |Lisbon, Portugal

Expert Panel: Michael McDermott, Matteo Piga, Luca Cantarini, Laurent Arnauld, José Hernández-Rodriguez  

When to think in autoinflammatory diseases: an algorithm proposal

Ana Campar / Raquel Faria |Porto, Portugal

How to best use the genetic tests in the clinical practice?

To be announced 

Clinical cases discussion 

 

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