Rheumatology Grand Rounds

The conferences are currently held in a virtual format (zoom) 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.

2022-2023 Schedule

Date	Grand Rounds 8-9am
07/01/22	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
07/08/22	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
07/15/22	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
07/22/22	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
07/29/22	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
08/05/22	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
08/12/22	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
08/19/22	Fellows boot camp clinical conference
08/26/22	Case conference / Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
09/02/22	No conference: Labor Day Weekend
09/09/22	Journal Club Dr. Maripat Corr "Spondyloarthropathies"
09/16/22	Guest Speaker Dr. Nancy E. Lane UC Davis Health Osteoporosis and bone health updates
09/23/22	Journal Club Dr. Tony Yaksh "Pain"
09/30/22 Fellowship interviews	Dr. Artie Kavanaugh Division of RAI, UCSD Review of the 2021 EULAR conference (confirmed for 2023)
10/07/22 Fellowship interviews	Citywide Rheumatology Grand Rounds at UCSD (venue and format TBD) (UCSD speaker Dr. R. Dhital)
10/14/22 Fellowship interviews	Guest Speaker Dr. Marcela Ferrada NIH Relapsing polychondritis (confirmed)
10/21/22	Journal Club Dr. Arthur Kavanaugh "Targeted Therapies in Inflammatory Arthritis"
10/28/22	Guest speaker Dr. Laura Donlin Hospital for Special Surgery, NY “Molecular stratification of RA joints"
11/04//22	Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
11/11/22	No conference: ACR Convergence, Philadelphia Nov 10-14
11/18/22	No conference: ACR Convergence Nov 10-14, Philadelphia
11/25/22	No conference: Thanksgiving weekend
12/02/22	Cancelled
12/09/22	Journal Club Dr. Monica Guma "The microbiome"
12/16/22	ACR Review by Fellows, Part 1 Dr. M. Kaur Dr. N. Singh
12/23/22	No conference: Holiday
12//30/22	No conference: Happy New Year
01/06/23	Conference canceled
01/13/23	Guest Speaker Dr. Rohit Aggarwal Medical Director, Arthritis and Autoimmunity Center University of Pittsburg Medical Center "Management of inflammatory myopathies"
01/20/23	Guest speaker Dr. J. Cush Director of Clinical Rheumatology at the Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas "The safety of Biologic & Newer Therapies"
01/27/23	ACR Review by Fellows, Part 2 Dr. R. Dhital Dr. T. Lwin
02/03/23	Conference canceled
02/10/23	Guest speaker Dr. Iain McInnes Vice-Principal and Head of College of Medical, Veterinary and Life ScieAdhesion Molecules & Inflammationnces Muirhead Chair of Medicine/Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology University of Glasgow "Deconstructing Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases"
02/17/23	Guest speaker Dr. David T. Felson Boston University Medical Center "Advances in OA"
02/24/23	Guest speaker Dr. Sheetal Desai Interim Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Director, Lupus Clinic, UCI "Women in Academia and Female leadership"
03/03//23	Journal Club Dr. Abha Singh "MSK UltraSound"
03/10/23	Guest speaker Dr. Jonathan Kay Timothy S. and Elaine L. Peterson Chair in Rheumatology Director of Clinical Research, Division of Rheumatology University of Massachusetts Medical School "Biosimilars"
03/17/23	Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
03/24/23	Dr Richard Keating Scripps Rheumatology Canceled
Thursday, 03/30/23	Joint Dermatology-Rheumatology Case Conference UC San Diego Department of Dermatology & UC San Diego Division of Rheumatology 7:30-8:30AM
03/31/23	No conference: Cezar Chavez day
04/07/23	Dr. Elizabeth R. Volkmann Director of the UCLA Scleroderma Program Co-Director of the UCLA CTD-Related ILD Program Division of Rheumatology UCLA "CTD related Lung disease"
04/14/23	Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
Wednesday, 4/19/23 12:00-1:00pm	Thirteenth Annual Nathan J. Zvaifler Rheumatology Lecture Christopher Buckley, MBBS Kennedy Professor of Translational Rheumatology Director of Clinical Research Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology University of Oxford Medicine Grand Rounds (Virtually) Title of talk: "Is precision pathology more important than precision medicine?"
04/21/23	Quarterly Rheumatology section meeting ACTRI 3W232 (in person)
04/28/23	Dr. Tara Paravar Department of Dermatology, UCSD Dermatologic presentations of systemic disease "Alopecia"
05/05/23	Guest Speaker Peter Grayson, MD Head of the Vasculitis Translational Research Program, NIH "Vasculitis updates"
05/12/23	Citywide Rheumatology Grand Rounds at SCRIPPS (UCSD case presented by 1^st year Fellow) (confirmed)
05/19/23	Journal Club Dr. Mark Ginsberg "Adhesion Molecules & Inflammation"
05/26/23	Journal Club Dr. Gregg Middleton "Sports Medicine"
06/02/23	No conference EULAR
06/09/23	Guest speaker Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D. President, CEO, and Professor La Jolla Institute for Immunology "Antibodies against Emerging Infections: A Global Collaboration"
06/16/23	Journal Club Dr. Ken Kalunian "Lupus"
06/23/23	Review of Fellow's Scholarly activity. 2^ndyear Fellows present
06/30/23	Review of Fellow's Scholarly activity. 1^st year Fellows present

Quick Glance

Date: Every Friday
Time: 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. unless otherwise noted.
Location: virtually via zoom.

Course Director: Susan Lee, MD

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Contact Info:

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