Release date: 17 July 2017
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
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Introduction |
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Professor Iain B. McInnes
President of EULAR, Muirhead Professor of Medicine, Director of the Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Professor McInnes is a Muirhead Professor of Medicine and is the current President of EULAR. He is the Director of the Institute of Infection, immunity and Inflammation at the University of Glasgow. He also serves as Director of the ARUK Centre of Excellence for Rheumatoid Arthritis. Professor Iain McInnes studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and graduated with honours in 1989 before training in internal medicine and rheumatology. He completed his membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1992 and became a fellow (FRCP) in 2003. He completed his PhD and post-doctoral studies via fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, the Arthritis Research Campaign (ARC, UK) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) Fogarty Fellowship Programme in both Glasgow and Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Professor McInnes’ research interests include understanding the role of cytokines in inflammatory synovitis. He leads a trials unit specialising in the use of biologic agents in early clinical trials in inflammatory arthritis. Professor McInnes has published widely in the areas of immunobiology and rheumatology, and he is Associate Editor of the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases and a member of the executive Editorial Board of the European Journal of Immunology. He gave the British Society of Rheumatology (BSR) Droitwich Lecture in 2012, and the Gerald Weissmann Lecture in Rheumatology in New York in 2013. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2008, and in 2012 was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He received the Sir James Black Prize Medal, a prestigious award in medicine in 2016 for his outstanding contribution to the field of immunology. In 2019, Professor McInnes was awarded a CBE for services to Medicine. |
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JAK-Kinase Targeting in RA: Mechanism of Action |
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Professor Iain B. McInnes
President of EULAR, Muirhead Professor of Medicine, Director of the Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Professor McInnes is a Muirhead Professor of Medicine and is the current President of EULAR. He is the Director of the Institute of Infection, immunity and Inflammation at the University of Glasgow. He also serves as Director of the ARUK Centre of Excellence for Rheumatoid Arthritis. Professor Iain McInnes studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and graduated with honours in 1989 before training in internal medicine and rheumatology. He completed his membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1992 and became a fellow (FRCP) in 2003. He completed his PhD and post-doctoral studies via fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, the Arthritis Research Campaign (ARC, UK) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) Fogarty Fellowship Programme in both Glasgow and Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Professor McInnes’ research interests include understanding the role of cytokines in inflammatory synovitis. He leads a trials unit specialising in the use of biologic agents in early clinical trials in inflammatory arthritis. Professor McInnes has published widely in the areas of immunobiology and rheumatology, and he is Associate Editor of the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases and a member of the executive Editorial Board of the European Journal of Immunology. He gave the British Society of Rheumatology (BSR) Droitwich Lecture in 2012, and the Gerald Weissmann Lecture in Rheumatology in New York in 2013. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2008, and in 2012 was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He received the Sir James Black Prize Medal, a prestigious award in medicine in 2016 for his outstanding contribution to the field of immunology. In 2019, Professor McInnes was awarded a CBE for services to Medicine. |
30:28 | 4 |
Baricitinib: Efficacy in Focus |
Professor Peter Taylor
Norman Collisson Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences, Professor Peter Taylor studied pre-clinical medical sciences at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his first degree in Physiology. He subsequently studied clinical medicine at the University of Oxford and was awarded a PhD degree from the University of London for studies on the pathogenesis of arthritis. In October 2011, Professor Taylor was appointed Norman Collisson Chair of Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford. He is the Head of Clinical Sciences at the Botnar Research Centre within the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences.
He has specialist clinical interests in novel therapies, rheumatoid and early arthritis. His research expertise is in mechanisms sustaining inflammation and clinical trials of new therapies with development of novel outcome measurements for application in assessment of response to therapy. |
36:46 | 4 |
Baricitinib and Safety |
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Professor Kevin Winthrop
Professor of Infectious Diseases, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Ophthalmology, Professor Kevin Winthrop received his undergraduate degree in biology from Yale University and completed his MD degree at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon, USA. He obtained a masters degree in epidemiology at University California at Berkeley and completed an infectious disease epidemiology fellowship with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) before serving as a staff member at CDC. He has co-authored more than 100 publications, many detailing epidemiologic and clinical aspects of infections and other adverse events associated with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, particularly those related to biologic immunosuppressive therapies. Professor Winthrop also serves on the editorial board of Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, as Section Editor of Current Rheumatology Reports, and as an Associate Editor of BMC Infectious Diseases. |
10:07 | 4 |
Evaluation | 0 |
Date of preparation: 17 July 2017