Canadian Rheumatology Association
Winter Workshop & Annual Meeting
February 20 (evening) to 23, 2002
Château Lake Louise

Program

WEDNESDAY, February 20th, 2002
1230 CRA Registration Desk Open (Main Lobby)

1430 National Journal Club (Victoria Dining Room)
Co-Chairs: Hyman Tannenbaum &
Duncan Gordon

· C-Reactive Protein Versus ESR
- Practical Aspects
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Mathieu
· Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha
Antagonists & Demyelinating Disease
Speaker: Alf Cividino
· Osteoprotegrin
Speaker: Robert Offer
· Mortality in Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Cardiovascular Aspects
Speaker: Janice Canvin

1530 Adjourn

Merck Frosst Canada Ltd. & Abbott Laboratories
Satellite Symposium
Rheumatological Disease Therapy: New Perspectives

1545 Opening remarks
Denis Choquette

Touch pad pre-knowledge assessment

1600 Current and Future Trends in Biological
Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 2002 Update
Edward Keystone

Coxibs: Efficacy Vs Effectiveness
Claire Bombardier

Intermittent Therapy in Osteoporosis
Jacques Brown

1715 Panel Discussion / Touch pad
post-knowledge assessment

1730 Adjourn

For further information please contact nathalie_mallette@merck.com or Anna.Tsouluhas@abbott.com

Amgen Canada Inc &
Pharmacia/Pfizer Canada Inc Satellite Symposium
Improving Arthritis Patient Outcomes:
A Quality of Life Continuum

1730 Registration (Victoria Room)

1800 Co Chairs: Boulos Haraoui & Edward Keystone

Touchpad pre-assessment
Boulos Haraoui

Facilitating "Personal Best" outcomes for OA and RA patients
William Bensen

Improving functionality in the RA Patient:
QOL outcomes
Edward Keystone

New Horizons in the Treatment of OA Patients
Boulos Haraoui

Emerging safety data with new biologic agents - clinical implications
Michael Weisman

Question & Answers/ Touchpad post assessment
Edward Keystone

2000 Adjourn

For further information please contact Laurence Goldstein (KARMA Clinical Relations Canada Inc. at laurence@karmaworld.com)

2000 Dinner(Tom Wilson Room, 7th Floor)
Sponsored by Amgen Canada Inc &
Pharmacia/Pfizer Canada Inc


THURSDAY, February 21st, 2002 FRIDAY, February 22nd, 2002
0630 Registration Desk Opens (Victoria Dining Room)
Continental Breakfast (Registrants Only)
 0630




0700		 Registration Desk Opens (Victoria Dining Room)
Continental Breakfast (Registrants Only)


CRA Annual General Meeting
(CRA Members Only)
Guest Speaker: Cy Frank
0700 President's Opening Remarks (Victoria Dining Room)
Dianne Mosher
 0830

0900 		Refreshment Break

Concurrent Workshops (choose one)
1) Update in Scleroderma - case discussion
Chair: Janet Pope

2) Practical Issues With the Anti-TNF
Therapies
Chair: Edward Keystone

3) Office Management - practical tips
Co-Chairs: Jamie Henderson
Carter Thorne

4) Musculoskeletal Pain Syndromes in
Childhood
Chair: Ronald Laxer
Speaker David Sherry


0715 Fellows Podium Presentations
Chair: Walter Maksymowych

 1000 Adjourn
1200 "Thieves" Market:
CNS Lupus
Speaker: John Hanly
0845 Refreshment Break
 1300 Session Adjourns
0900 Symposium 1: Industry Co-Sponsored Autoantibodies "what have we learned in the last 20 years"
Chair: Marvin Fritzler

· Clinical Applications of Autoantibody Testing
Speaker: Jean-Luc Senecal
· The Origin of Autoantibodies: Viruses & Molecular Mimicry?
Speaker: Marianna Newkirk
· The Origin of Autoantibodies: Immunological Aspects
Speaker: Betty Diamond
· New Directions, Applications & Standardization of Autoantibody Testing
Speaker: Marvin Fritzler

1300

 

 

1530

1615

 

 

 

 

 

1715

CRA/Industry Ski Race

  • Pre-registration required
  • See General Information for details





    • Apres Ski/ Wine & Cheese Reception

    Royal College Debate
    Viscosupplementation is a Major Addtion
    to the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis

    Moderator: Martin Atkinson

    For: Wojciech Olszynski
    Jean-Pierre Raynauld

    Against: Jerry Tenenbaum
    John Watterson

    Refreshment Break
    1045 Session Adjourns
    1100 Poster Set-up (Tom Wilson Room)
    1200 "Thieves" Market:
    Everyday Management of Vasculitis
    Speaker: Howard Stein
    1300 Session Adjourns
    		 1730 REPEAT Concurrent Workshops
    (choose one)
    5) Update in Scleroderma - case discussion
    Chair: Janet Pope

    6) Practical Issues With the Anti-TNF
    Therapies
    Chair: Edward Keystone

    7) Office Management - practical tips
    Co-Chairs: Jamie Henderson
    Carter Thorne

    8) Musculoskeletal Pain Syndromes in
    Childhood
    Chair: Ronald Laxer
    Speaker David Sherry
    1500 to
    1530     		Reception - Wine & Cheese
    (Tom Wilson Room)
    1830 Adjourn
    1530 Poster Viewing with Authors
    (Tom Wilson Room)
    Chair: Walter Maksymowych
    1930 Reception (Victoria Dining Room)
    1715
  • Symposium 2: Industry Co-Sponsored
    (Victoria Dining Room)

    Co-sponsored by Merck Frosst Canada & Co and Purdue Pharma

    Management of Chronic Pain in Everyday
    Rheumatology Practice

    Chair: Paul Peloso

    · Burden of MSK Problems in Canada
    Speaker: Tanveer Towheed
    · Approaches to MSK Pain Management
    Speaker: Denis Choquette
    · Opioids in OA Knee and Back Pain
    Speaker: Paul Peloso
    · The Case Against Opioid Use
    Speaker: Kam Shojania
    · Practical Tips on Opioid Use
    Speaker: Roman Jovey


    		•  2000

    CRA Annual Dinner (Victoria Dining Room)

    • Tickets Required (see General Information)
    1900 Adjourn FREE EVENING
    		    
    2000 Posters Dismantled    
    Saturday, February 23rd, 2002
    0630 Registration Desk Opens (Victoria Dining Room)
    Continental Breakfast (Registrants Only)
    0730 Canadian Achievers
    Speaker: Gillian Hawker MD FRCPC
    Recipient of the 2001 RCPSC Medical in Medicine

    "Differences Between Men and Women in the Rate of Use of Hip and Knee Arthroplasty"
      Aventis Pharma Inc &
    Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals Satellite Symposium

    Innovative Approaches to Clinical Management of Osteoporosis & Rheumatoid Arthritis
    0830

    Chair: William Bensen
    · Clinical utility of Bone Markers in Management of Osteoporosis
    Jacques Brown
    · Microarchitechural changes in bone & their impact on bone fragility in Osteoporosis
    Gillian Hawker
    · Quality of Life and burden of illness in patients with Osteoporosis: Canadian Perspective
    Alan Tenenhouse
    · Functional ability assessment & the quality of life instruments in management of RA
    Denis Choquette
    · Radiographic evaluation of new therapies for rheumatoid arthritis
    John T. Sharp


    For further information please contact Anna Galteri, Aventis Pharma at Email anna.galteri@aventis.com
    1030 Refreshment Break
    1045 Dunlop-Dottridge Lecture
    Chair: Dianne Mosher

    National Journal Club
    Dunlop Dottridge Lecturer: Duncan Gordon
    1200 Meeting Adjourns