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.

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 "Precision medicine in Rheumatoid arthritis"
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	Journal Club Dr. Monica Guma "The Microbiome"
12/09/22	ACR Review by Fellows, Part 1 Dr. R. Dhital Dr. T. Lwin
12/16/22	ACR Review by Fellows Part 2 Dr. M. Kaur Dr. N. Singh
12/23/22	No conference: Holiday
12//30/22	No conference: Happy New Year
01/06/23	Journal Club Dr. Ken Kalunian "Lupus"
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	Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
02/03/23	Journal Club Dr. Mark Ginsberg "Adhesion Molecules & Inflammation"
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
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 TBD
03/17/23	Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
03/24/23	Dr Richard Keating Scripps Rheumatology
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	Journal Club Dr. Gregg Middleton "Sports Medicine"
04/14/23	Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
04/21/23	Guest Speaker
04/28/23	Dr. Tara Paravar Department of Dermatology, UCSD Dermatologic presentations of systemic disease
05/05/23	Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
05/12/23	Citywide Rheumatology Grand Rounds at SCRIPPS (UCSD case presented by 1^st year Fellow) (confirmed)
05/19/23	Journal Club
05/26/23	Back up Slot
06/02/23	No conference EULAR
06/09/23	Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics
06/16/23	Journal Club
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: ACTRI (Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute) room 3W232 or virtually via zoom.

Course Director: Arnold Ceponis, MD., PhD.

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Contact Info:

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