Conferences

Rheumatology Grand Rounds

Unless otherwise specified, the conferences are held at Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI), 3W 232 conference room on Fridays between 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. The Basic Science Course & Med 256: Immunological Basis of Rheumatic and Allergic Diseases Journal Club is presented as a part of the Grand Rounds.

Our program is ACCME accredited program that focuses around education on prevention, diagnoses, and management of rheumatic diseases, and dissemination of clinical evidence-based and scientific advances in the field.

The target audiences range from physicians rheumatologists to rheumatology trainees, medical residents, medical and PhD students and allied health professionals, as well as industry and patient representatives.

The syllabus includes lectures on specific topics, sessions on ACR and EULAR reviews, case-based conferences, trainee and faculty scholarly activity presentations, monthly journal club style conferences, twice yearly "Citywide Grand Rounds" (rotated between UCSD, and community colleagues). These sessions are held weekly throughout the academic year. Each session is moderated by expert faculty.

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this educational activity for one credit per hour in Category 1 credit toward the AMA Physicians Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

2021-2022 Schedule

Date	Topic
	Grand Rounds 8-9 AM We expect that some of the session will go back to live attendance. We will continue to provide Zoom access to all sessions. Please see each grand rounds announcement for details
07/02/21	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
07/09/21	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
07/16/21	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
07/23/21	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
07/30/21	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
08/06/21	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
08/13/21	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
08/20/21	ACTRI 3W232 Case conference / Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
08/27/21	ACTRI 3W232 Dr. Timothy Fernandez and Dr. Jenny Yang Division of Pulmonary Medicine, UCSD Updates on PAH in CTD: Past, Present and Future (confirmed)
09/03/21	No conference: Labor Day Weekend
09/10/21	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr. Ken Kalunian SLE
09/17/21	ACTRI 3W232 Dr. Alan N. Baer Director Jerome Greene Sjogren’s Syndrome Clinic, John Hopkins Medical Center Sjogren’s syndrome updates (confirmed)
09/24/21 Fellowship interviews	ACTRI 3W232 Dr. Artie Kavanaugh Division of RAI, UCSD Review of the 2021 EULAR conference (confirmed)
10/01/21 Fellowship interviews	Citywide Rheumatology Grand Rounds at UCSD (venue and format TBD) (UCSD speaker Dr. Oleg Stens) (confirmed)
10/08/21 Fellowship interviews	ACTRI 3W232 Visiting professor Dr. Percio Gulko Chief, Division of Rheumatology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Hospital “Rheumatoid arthritis, synovial fibroblasts and magnesium: new ideas to address unmet needs.” Hosted by Dr. Nunzio Bottini
10/15/21	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr. Arthur Kavanaugh "Inflammatory Arthritis"
10/22/21	ACTRI 3W232 Visiting professor Prof. Tomas Mustelin Division of Rheumatology Herndon and Esther Maury Endowed Professor in Rheumatoid Arthritis Associate Director, Center for Innate Immunity and Infectious Disease (CIIID) University of Washington “SLE pathogenesis: crossing the LINE1?” Hosted by Dr. Nunzio Bottini
10/29/21	ACTRI 3W232 Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
11/05/21	No conference: ACR Convergence Nov 3-10
11/12/21	No conference: ACR Convergence Nov 3-10
11/19/21	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr. Nunzio Bottini "Myositis"
11/26/21	No conference: Thanksgiving Holiday
12/03/21	ACTRI 3W232 ACR Review by Fellows, Part 1 Dr. Paul Hsu Dr. Oleg Stens
12/10/21	ACTRI 3W232 ACR Review by Fellows Part 2 Dr. Rashmi Dhital Dr. Thuthiri Lwin
12/17/21	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr. Brian Pedersen "Osteoarthritis"
12/24/21	No conference: Holiday
12/31/21	No conference: Happy New Year
01/07/22	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr Monica Guma "Vasculitis"
01/14/22	ACTRI 3W232 Visiting professor Dr. Timothy Niewold Judith and Stewart Colton Professor of Medicine and Pathology Director, Colton Center for Autoimmunity NYU Grossman School of Medicine (confirmed) "Type I Interferon in Lupus Pathogenesis" Hosted by Dr. Ken Kalunian
01/21/22	ACTRI 3W232 Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
01/28/22	ACTRI 3W232 Dr. Laura Cappelli Division of Rheumatology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine "Immune checkpoint inhibitors and the rheumatologist" (confirmed)
02/04/22	ACTRI 3W232 Dr. Walter Maksymowych Division of Rheumatology University of Alberta Key Innovations in Spondyloarthritis Transforming Patient Care (confirmed)
02/11/22	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr. Chelsey Smith "Health Disparities"
Wednesday, 02/16/22 7:30-8:30am	Twelfth Annual Nathan J. Zvaifler Rheumatology Lecture in Rheumatology Presented by Daniel L. Kastner, MD., PhD.
02/18/22	ACTRI 3W232 Dr. Jinoos Yazdany UCSF Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) and the Alice Betts Endowed Professor of Medicine at UCSF “Health disparities in SLE” (confirmed)
02/25/22	ACTRI 3W232 Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
03/04/22	ACTRI 3W232 Haewon Lee, MD Department of Orthopedics, UCSD Sacroiliac pain (confirmed)
03/11/22	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr. Heather Hofflich "Osteoporosis/Sarcopenia"
03/18/22	8:30-9:30am Joint Pediatric and Adult Rheumatology Grand Rounds "Bringing Still’s Disease into the Molecular Era" Dr. Peter A. Nigrovic Director, Center for Adults with Pediatric Rheumatic Illness Professor of Pediatrics, Harward Medical School
03/25/22	No conference: Cezar Chavez day
04/01/22	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr. Peter Chiraseveenuprapund "Pediatric Rheumatology"
04/08/22	ACTRI 3W232 Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
04/15/22	ACTRI 3W232 Dr Richard Keating Scripps Rheumatology
04/22/22	ACTRI 3W232 Dr. Tara Paravar Department of Dermatology, UCSD. Dermatologic presentations of systemic disease (confirmed)
04/29/22	ACTRI 3W232 Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
05/06/22	Citywide Rheumatology Grand Rounds at SCRIPPS (UCSD case presented by 1st year Fellow) (confirmed)
05/13/22	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr. Susan Lee "Long COVID"
05/20/22	ACTRI 3W232 Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
05/27/22	ACTRI 3W232 Dr. Peter Weis Chief of SCRIPPS Rheumatology (confirmed)
06/03/22	No conference EULAR
06/10/22	ACTRI 3W232 Journal Club Dr. Robert Terkeltaub "Crystal Arthropathies"
06/17/22	ACTRI 3W232 Review of Fellow’s Scholarly activity. 2nd. year Fellows present
06/24/22	ACTRI 3W232 Review of Fellow’s Scholarly activity. 1st. year Fellows present

Quick Glance

Date: Every Friday
Time: 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. unless otherwise noted.
Location: ACTRI (Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute) room 3W232, unless otherwise indicates.

Course Director: Arnold Ceponis, MD., PhD.

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Contact Info:

Amanda Williamson
aswilliamson@ucsd.edu
Phone:(858) 246-0938