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World Rheumatology Forum

Scientific Programme

Scientific Programme

Day 1 : Saturday, 18th March 2023 | Session 1

Session and Time Topic Speaker(s)
09:00 - 10:00 am
Abstract Presentations by Postgraduate Trainees

Chairs
: VP Pandey (Indore), Able Lawrence (Lucknow), Manisha Daware (Bengaluru)

Judges : Suparna Guha (Kolkata), Anil Abrol (Chandigarh), Abdul Khaliq (Srinagar)
10:00 - 10:45 am
State-of-the-art Lecture 1

Chairs
: Sukumar Mukherjee (Kolkata), G Narsimulu (Hyderabad), Rohini Handa (Delhi)
10:00 - 10:30 am
Tricky manifestations of Systemic Sclerosis

• Can you predict?
• How to best manage?
• What are the unmet needs?
Prof. Ariane Herrick (UK)
10:30 - 10:45 am
Q & A
10:45-11:30 am
Challenging Cases 1 : Systemic Sclerosis

Chairs
: Aman Sharma (Chandigarh), Praveen Jadhav (Nashik), Sami Salman (Iraq)
10:45 - 11:10 am
A tricky overlap with AAV A Pandora's box with infection Morphea with limb shortening
Rasmi Sahoo (Bhubaneswar) Shailee Chandak (Nagpur) Sikha Agarwal (Mumbai)
Judges

Madhumita Das (Guwahati) Shashank Akerkar (Mumbai) Paramjeet Singh (Haldwani)
11:10 - 11:30 am
Discussion and Q & A
Vikas Agarwal
11:30 - 12:00 pm
Inauguration and Tea
12:00 - 12:30 pm
What is Hot 1

Chairs
: S Rajeswari (Chennai), Ved Chaturvedi (Delhi), Niharika Gill (Mumbai)
12.00 - 1220 pm
Immunosuppression in Systemic Sclerosis

• Does it matter ? • When to use ? • What to choose ?
Vikas Agarwal (Lucknow)
12:20 - 12:30 pm
Q & A
12:30 - 01:15 pm
Challenging Cases 2: Systemic Sclerosis

Chairs
: K Narayanan (Kochi), Shefali Sharma (Chandigarh) Rajkiran Dudam (Hyderabad)
12:30 - 12:55 pm
Difficult digital ischaemia Tale of a lady with steel skin What is causing the weight loss
Bhuvanesh M (Trivandrum) Vijaya Prasanna (Hyderabad) Rajesh Kanumuri (Ongole)
Judges

OP Garg (Delhi) Sharath Kumar (Bengaluru) Naval Mendiratta (Gurugram)
12:55 - 01:15 pm
Discussion and Q & A
Ariane Herrick
01:15 - 02:30 pm
Lunch
Session and Time Topic Speaker(s)
09:00 - 10:00 am
Abstract Presentations by Postgraduate Trainees

Chairs : VP Pandey (Indore), Able Lawrence (Lucknow), Manisha Daware (Bengaluru)

Judges : Suparna Guha (Kolkata), Anil Abrol (Chandigarh), Abdul Khaliq (Srinagar)
10:00 - 10:45 am
State-of-the-art Lecture 1

Chairs : Sukumar Mukherjee (Kolkata), G Narsimulu (Hyderabad), Rohini Handa (Delhi)
10:00 - 10:30 am
Tricky manifestations of Systemic Sclerosis

• Can you predict?
• How to best manage?
• What are the unmet needs?
Prof. Ariane Herrick (UK)
10:30 - 10:45 am
Q & A
10:45-11:30 am
Challenging Cases 1 : Systemic Sclerosis

Chairs : Aman Sharma (Chandigarh), Praveen Jadhav (Nashik), Sami Salman (Iraq)
10:45 - 11:10 am
A tricky overlap with AAV A Pandora's box with infection Morphea with limb shortening
Rasmi Sahoo (Bhubaneswar) Shailee Chandak (Nagpur) Sikha Agarwal (Mumbai)
Judges

Madhumita Das (Guwahati) Shashank Akerkar (Mumbai) Paramjeet Singh (Haldwani)
11:10 - 11:30 am
Discussion and Q & A
Vikas Agarwal
11:30 - 12:00 pm
Inauguration and Tea
12:00 - 12:30 pm
What is Hot 1

Chairs : S Rajeswari (Chennai), Ved Chaturvedi (Delhi), Niharika Gill (Mumbai)
12.00 - 1220 pm
Immunosuppression in Systemic Sclerosis

• Does it matter ? • When to use ? • What to choose ?
Vikas Agarwal (Lucknow)
12:20 - 12:30 pm
Q & A
12:30 - 01:15 pm
Challenging Cases 2: Systemic Sclerosis

Chairs : K Narayanan (Kochi), Shefali Sharma (Chandigarh) Rajkiran Dudam (Hyderabad)
12:30 - 12:55 pm
Difficult digital ischaemia Tale of a lady with steel skin What is causing the weight loss
Bhuvanesh M (Trivandrum) Vijaya Prasanna (Hyderabad) Rajesh Kanumuri (Ongole)
Judges

OP Garg (Delhi) Sharath Kumar (Bengaluru) Naval Mendiratta (Gurugram)
12:55 - 01:15 pm
Discussion and Q & A
Ariane Herrick
01:15 - 02:30 pm
Lunch

Day 1 - Saturday, 18thMarch 2023 | Session 2

Session and Time Topic Speaker(s)
02:30 - 03:15 pm
State-of-the-art Lecture 2

Chairs
: KM Mahendranath (Bengaluru), Ashok Kumar (Delhi), Aru/ Rajamurugan (Chennai)
02:30 - 03:00 pm
Choosing targeted therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Efficacy vs safety • cs with b or tsDMARDs ? • Personalizing therapy
Chris Edwards (UK)
03:00 - 03:15 pm
Q & A
03:15 - 04:00 pm
Challenging Cases 3 : Rheumatoid Arthritis

Chairs
: Sarbani Sengupta (Kolkata), Sapan Pandya (Ahmedabad), PD Rath (Delhi)
03:15 - 03:40 pm
Tricky renal amyloid Tale of corneal melt Overlap with SSC and 11M
Amit Kansal (Ludhiana) Lubna Khurshid (Srinagar) Arjun MN (Bengaluru)
Judges

G D Choudhury (Kolkata) Hemant Gopal (Bathinda) Gaurav Dembla (Sonipat)
03:40 - 04:00 pm
Discussion and Q & A
Ramesh Jois
04:00 - 04:30 pm
Tea and Poster Judging

Judges
: K Shanmuganandan (Chennai), Kavita Krishna (Pune), Silas Nelson (Jabalpur), Sourabh Malviya (Indore), Vijay KR Rao (Bengaluru), Sunil Singh (Mumbai), Divya Agarwal (Delhi), Pradip Sarma (Guwahati), Subramanian N (Tirunelveli), Hema M (Chennai), Mythi/i Seetharaman (Chennai), Himanshu Aggarwal (Delhi)

Judging Conveners : N Raja (Vellore), Nikhil Gupta (Delhi)
04:30 - 05:00 pm
What is Hot 2 Chairs : Lata Bachile (Mumbai), BG Dharmanand (Bengaluru), Molly M Thabah (Puducherry)
04:30 - 04:50 pm
Comorbidities in Rheumatoid Arthritis

• The tricky 5 • Screening timelines • Optimizing outcomes
Ramesh Jois (Bengaluru)
04:50 - 05:00 pm
Q & A
05:00 - 05:45 pm
Challenging Cases 4 : Rheumatoid Arthritis

Chairs
: Sarath C Mouli (Hyderabad), Sundeep Grover (Meerut), Sumeet Agrawal (Gurugram)
05:00 - 05:25 pm
Arthritis with lung involvement Tricky tracheal inflammation Difficult to treat rheumatoid
Rajiv Ranjan (Gurugram) Rutuja Puraswani (Indore) Dantis Emmanuel (Aluva)
Judges

Vishal Marwah (Kochi) Preeti N Mehta (Mumbai) RK Naidu (Visakhapatnam)
05:25 - 05:45 pm
Discussion and Q & A
Chris Edwards
05:45 - 06:30 pm
Panel discussion: On a lighter note - To be or not to be

The Daily dilemmas of a Rheumatologist

Moderator
: S Shankar (Bengaluru)

Panelists : Kartik S (Delhi), Amar Atal (Pune), Arun Hegde (Lucknow), Ramakant Singh (Mumbai), Abhishek Kumar (Delhi)
Session and Time Topic Speaker(s)
02:30 - 03:15 pm
State-of-the-art Lecture 2

Chairs : KM Mahendranath (Bengaluru), Ashok Kumar (Delhi), Aru/ Rajamurugan (Chennai)
02:30 - 03:00 pm
Choosing targeted therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Efficacy vs safety • cs with b or tsDMARDs ? • Personalizing therapy
Chris Edwards (UK)
03:00 - 03:15 pm
Q & A
03:15 - 04:00 pm
Challenging Cases 3 : Rheumatoid Arthritis

Chairs : Sarbani Sengupta (Kolkata), Sapan Pandya (Ahmedabad), PD Rath (Delhi)
03:15 - 03:40 pm
Tricky renal amyloid Tale of corneal melt Overlap with SSC and 11M
Amit Kansal (Ludhiana) Lubna Khurshid (Srinagar) Arjun MN (Bengaluru)
Judges

G D Choudhury (Kolkata) Hemant Gopal (Bathinda) Gaurav Dembla (Sonipat)
03:40 - 04:00 pm
Discussion and Q & A
Ramesh Jois
04:00 - 04:30 pm
Tea and Poster Judging

Judges : K Shanmuganandan (Chennai), Kavita Krishna (Pune), Silas Nelson (Jabalpur), Sourabh Malviya (Indore), Vijay KR Rao (Bengaluru), Sunil Singh (Mumbai), Divya Agarwal (Delhi), Pradip Sarma (Guwahati), Subramanian N (Tirunelveli), Hema M (Chennai), Mythi/i Seetharaman (Chennai), Himanshu Aggarwal (Delhi)

Judging Conveners : N Raja (Vellore), Nikhil Gupta (Delhi)
04:30 - 05:00 pm
What is Hot 2 Chairs : Lata Bachile (Mumbai), BG Dharmanand (Bengaluru), Molly M Thabah (Puducherry)
04:30 - 04:50 pm
Comorbidities in Rheumatoid Arthritis

• The tricky 5 • Screening timelines • Optimizing outcomes
Ramesh Jois (Bengaluru)
04:50 - 05:00 pm
Q & A
05:00 - 05:45 pm
Challenging Cases 4 : Rheumatoid Arthritis

Chairs : Sarath C Mouli (Hyderabad), Sundeep Grover (Meerut), Sumeet Agrawal (Gurugram)
05:00 - 05:25 pm
Arthritis with lung involvement Tricky tracheal inflammation Difficult to treat rheumatoid
Rajiv Ranjan (Gurugram) Rutuja Puraswani (Indore) Dantis Emmanuel (Aluva)
Judges

Vishal Marwah (Kochi) Preeti N Mehta (Mumbai) RK Naidu (Visakhapatnam)
05:25 - 05:45 pm
Discussion and Q & A
Chris Edwards
05:45 - 06:30 pm
Panel discussion: On a lighter note - To be or not to be

The Daily dilemmas of a Rheumatologist

Moderator : S Shankar (Bengaluru)

Panelists : Kartik S (Delhi), Amar Atal (Pune), Arun Hegde (Lucknow), Ramakant Singh (Mumbai), Abhishek Kumar (Delhi)

Day 2 - Sunday, 19th March 2023

Session and Time Topic Speaker(s)
08:00 - 09:30 am
Meet the Masters (Workshops)
Main Hall : Extra-articular manifestations Of Rheumatoid Arthritis (Led by Chris Edwards)
Chairs : Bankim Desai (Surat), Varsha Bhatt (Pune), Paresh Jena (Bhubaneswar)
Faculty : Chris Edwards (UK), Saniv Kapoor (Delhi) I Conveners : Ashish Sharma (Delhi), Raghavendra H (Bengaluru)

Quorum 1 : USB Nailfold Capillaroscopy (Led by Ariane Herrick)
Chairs : DS Bhakuni (Delhi), Ajit Surin (Bhubaneswar), Padmanabha Shenoy (Kochi)
Faculty : Ariane Herrick (UK), Vivek Vasdev (Delhi) I Conveners : Devender Bairwa (Bilaspur), Satyam Bhatt (Udaipur)

Quorum 2 : Tricky Scenarios in Paediatric Rheumatology (Led by Sujata Sawhney and Mahesh Janarthanan)
Chairs : AA Pathan (Jaipur), SP Sethi (Jaipur), Ashok Gupta (Jaipur)
Faculty : Sujata Sawhney (Delhi), Mahesh Janarthanan (Chennai), Rakesh Pilania (Chandigarh) I Convener : Abhay Shivpuri (Jaipur)
09:30 - 10:30 am
Abstract Presentations by Postgraduate Trainees

Chairs
: Namisha Patel (Vadodara), John Mathew (Vellore), Puneet Kumar (Lucknow)

Judges : Rebecca Marak (Dibrugarh), Phanikumar D (Hyderabad), Durga P Misra (Lucknow)
10:30 - 11:00
Masterclass 1

Chairs
: V Krishnamurthy (Chennai), Alakendu Ghosh (Kolkata), B Padmakumar (Alappuzha)
10:30 - 10:50 am
Managing digital ulcers in Systemic Sclerosis

• Standard of care
• Difficult Digital Ulcers
• Recent advances
Arriane Herrick (UK)
10:50 - 11:00 am
Q & A
11:00 - 11:30 am
Tea
11:30 - 12:00 pm
Masterclass 2

Chairs
: URK Rao (Hyderabad), Uma Kumar (Delhi), Chandrashekara S (Bengaluru)
11:30 - 11:50 am
Personalizing DMARD monitoring

• Is it possible?
• Who needs 3 monthly labs?
• Who needs it only annually?
Chris Edwards (UK)
11:50 - 12:00 pm
Q & A
12:00 - 12:45 pm
The Fun Rheumatology Quiz for Everyone On the Spot Prizes | Tricky Questions | Tickly Questions

Chairs
: MM Prabhu (Manipal), AK Khan (Srinagar), Ghanshyam Pangtey (Delhi), Prakash Joshi (Indore)

Quiz Masters : Madhuri HR (Hyderabad), N Kavya Devi (Vijaywada), Pratyusha Rajavarapu (Guntur), Kushagra Gupta (Hisar)
12:45 - 01:00 pm
Valedictory and Awards
01:00 pm
Traditional Rajasthani Lunch
Session and Time Topic Speaker(s)
08:00 - 09:30 am
Meet the Masters (Workshops)
Main Hall : Extra-articular manifestations Of Rheumatoid Arthritis (Led by Chris Edwards)
Chairs : Bankim Desai (Surat), Varsha Bhatt (Pune), Paresh Jena (Bhubaneswar)
Faculty : Chris Edwards (UK), Saniv Kapoor (Delhi) I Conveners : Ashish Sharma (Delhi), Raghavendra H (Bengaluru)

Quorum 1 : USB Nailfold Capillaroscopy (Led by Ariane Herrick)
Chairs : DS Bhakuni (Delhi), Ajit Surin (Bhubaneswar), Padmanabha Shenoy (Kochi)
Faculty : Ariane Herrick (UK), Vivek Vasdev (Delhi) I Conveners : Devender Bairwa (Bilaspur), Satyam Bhatt (Udaipur)

Quorum 2 : Tricky Scenarios in Paediatric Rheumatology (Led by Sujata Sawhney and Mahesh Janarthanan)
Chairs : AA Pathan (Jaipur), SP Sethi (Jaipur), Ashok Gupta (Jaipur)
Faculty : Sujata Sawhney (Delhi), Mahesh Janarthanan (Chennai), Rakesh Pilania (Chandigarh) I Convener : Abhay Shivpuri (Jaipur)
09:30 - 10:30 am
Abstract Presentations by Postgraduate Trainees

Chairs : Namisha Patel (Vadodara), John Mathew (Vellore), Puneet Kumar (Lucknow)

Judges : Rebecca Marak (Dibrugarh), Phanikumar D (Hyderabad), Durga P Misra (Lucknow)
10:30 - 11:00
Masterclass 1

Chairs : V Krishnamurthy (Chennai), Alakendu Ghosh (Kolkata), B Padmakumar (Alappuzha)
10:30 - 10:50 am
Managing digital ulcers in Systemic Sclerosis

• Standard of care
• Difficult Digital Ulcers
• Recent advances
Arriane Herrick (UK)
10:50 - 11:00 am
Q & A
11:00 - 11:30 am
Tea
11:30 - 12:00 pm
Masterclass 2

Chairs : URK Rao (Hyderabad), Uma Kumar (Delhi), Chandrashekara S (Bengaluru)
11:30 - 11:50 am
Personalizing DMARD monitoring

• Is it possible?
• Who needs 3 monthly labs?
• Who needs it only annually?
Chris Edwards (UK)
11:50 - 12:00 pm
Q & A
12:00 - 12:45 pm
The Fun Rheumatology Quiz for Everyone On the Spot Prizes | Tricky Questions | Tickly Questions

Chairs : MM Prabhu (Manipal), AK Khan (Srinagar), Ghanshyam Pangtey (Delhi), Prakash Joshi (Indore)

Quiz Masters : Madhuri HR (Hyderabad), N Kavya Devi (Vijaywada), Pratyusha Rajavarapu (Guntur), Kushagra Gupta (Hisar)
12:45 - 01:00 pm
Valedictory and Awards
01:00 pm
Traditional Rajasthani Lunch