SSR Spring Educational Meeting

Friday 13 May 2022

Sero-Negative Arthritis

CPD for the meeting has been approved.

The SSR Spring Educational meeting is open for registration.

Information and booking can be found using the link below:

https://events.rcpe.ac.uk/scottish-society-rheumatology-spring-hybrid-meeting

The programme is available below and it promises to be an excellent meeting with a stellar array of Scottish, UK and international speakers! The meeting will be a hybrid meeting with all presentations available online. There will be two face-to-face ‘live’ venues at the Beardmore Centre, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank and the Suttie Centre, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

We strongly advise you to book early if you wish to attend one of the live venues as numbers are strictly limited.

We are looking forward to meeting up as a national society for the first time for a long time, and hope that you will be able to join us.
 

Date
End Date
Location
Hybrid event - Beardmore Conference Centre Glasgow / Suttie Conference Centre Aberdeen / online
NO DELEGATE FEE FOR THIS EVENT

Programme

09:30 Registration for attendees in Aberdeen & Glasgow and login for online participants

10:00 Introduction and Welcome - Rosemary Hollick, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, University of Aberdeen
& Stefan Siebert, Professor of Rheumatology, University of Glasgow  

10:15 Diagnosis: it’s not black and white 

Patient perspective: the importance of making the right diagnosis 

Making the wrong diagnosis: the concept of overdiagnosis in axSpA - Robert Landewe, Professor of Rheumatology, Amsterdam UMC  

Making the right diagnosis in clinic (what this means in practice) – Stefan Siebert, Professor of Rheumatology, University of Glasgow  

Q&A  

15 min break

11:40 Management: what’s new in treatment guidelines for PsA 

Patient perspectives on management and impact of extra-articular manifestations (PsA/axSpA)  

GRAPPA/BSR guidelines for management of PsA – practical aspects - Laura Coates, Associate Professor, University of Oxford  

Q&A  

12:25 Lunch 

13:25 Management: The gut & liver in SpA – what the rheumatology team need to know 

What’s new in IBD? - Malcolm Smith, Consultant Gastroenterologist, NHS Grampian 

What’s new in NAFLD? - Lindsay McLeman, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

Q&A  

14:10 Making the most of the multi-disciplinary team in SpA 

Delivering good care: what matters to patients 

Role of specialist physios in clinic and Rheumatology Physio Competencies - Will Gregory, Consultant Physiotherapist, Salford Royal Infirmary  

Q&A  

5 min online break  

14:50 Delivering patient-centred care for people with SpA

Combined derm-rheum-gastro clinics for SpA – a case study - Gabrielle Becher, Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Virtual clinics for SpA - Antoni Chan, Consultant Rheumatologist, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Q&A  

15.45 Concluding remarks 

16:00 Close of meeting