Overview
The ISR Spring Meeting for 2023 has been scheduled for 04 and 05 May in Hotel Kilkenny. This meeting will commence at 15.00 on Thursday, 4 May and finish at 14.00 on Friday, 5 May. The conference dinner will take place at 20.00 on the Thursday evening.
CALL FOR CLINICAL CASES ONLY – we are inviting submission of Clinical Cases for this Meeting opening on the 1 February 2023 and closing on Friday, 10 March 2023. Submissions received after this date will not be included.
Your submission should include all the personnel involved in addition to your hospital/institution name. The first author should be the presenter. If your case is accepted for an award the prize will go to the first author/presenter.
The ISR Autumn Meeting for 2023 will take place on Thursday and Friday, 21 and 22 September in Fitzpatrick’s Castle Hotel, Killiney, Co Dublin.
Agenda – ISR SPRING MEETING, 4/5 MAY 2023, KILKENNY
Thursday 4 May 2023
13.00 – 14.00 Light Lunch
14.00 – 14.50 CAG: Chaired by Prof David Kane
14.50 – 15.00 Opening Address: Prof Geraldine McCarthy, ISR President
15.00 – 15.45 Misconceptions and Opportunities: Evidence-based Medicine in Rheumatology
Prof Mike Putman, Director of the Vasculitis Program, Medical College of Wisconsin USA
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee and biscuits
16.15 – 16.30 Rheumatology registries in RA and AS
Dr Michele Doran and Prof Barry O’Shea, Consultant Rheumatologists, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
16.30 – 17.00 In the direction of flow
Prof Gaye Cunnane, Consultant Rheumatologist, Director of Health and Wellbeing, RCPI
17.00 – 18.00 Satellite Meeting – title and speaker to be confirmed
19.30 Dinner
Friday 5 May 2023
09.00 – 09.45 What rheumatologists need to know about the kidneys
Dr Brenda Griffin, Consultant Nephrologist, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
09.45 – 10.30 Challenges in vascular ischaemia of scleroderma
Prof John Pauling, Consultant Rheumatologist, University of Bristol, UK
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee and biscuits
11.00 – 12.00 Clinical case presentations
12.00 – 12.45 Management of Pregnancy in SLE
Dr Natasha Jordan, Consultant in Adolescent Rheumatology, SJH and Children’s Hospital Ireland
12.45 Prize-giving and close of meeting followed by lunch.