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Description: The Rheumatology Highlights Report Series is designed for the busy clinician. It provides highlights from key scientific presentations and/or abstracts presented at the national rheumatology meeting. Clinical experts attending this meeting have selected the most significant data to report. Each activity is a 15-minute presentation. Enhancements include downloadable audio and slide sets, and supporting abstracts with expert commentaries. This series offer two methods of particip...

Educational Objectives: At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to: * Improve the diagnosis and treatment of common family practice problems * Apply traditional modes of diagnosis and management more effectively * Apply information to commonly asked questions in office practice * Increase proficiency and maintain competence by updating cognitive understanding of family medicine * Feel better prepared to pass the American Board of Family Medici...

Description: Arthritis Self-Management: More than a Nice Extra / Kate Lorig, RN, DrPH Target Audience: Full and part-time faculty, fellows, residents, medical students and research support staff Objectives: Define self efficacy Discuss what the added extra to normal rheumatological practice is by having patients learn to self-manage.

Warren A. Katz. MD, is director of rheumatology for Clinical Care Associates of the University of Pennsylvania Health System ... and is the author of "Diagnosis and management of rheumatic diseases and pain management in rheumatologic disorders: A guide for clinicians." Here, he calls for a heightened awareness of the frequency of rheumatoid arthritis, its pathogenesis, risk factors, and the importance of early diagnosis. This lecture and the post-test is worth 1.5 credit hours. Dr. Katz...

Participate in discussion about the latest in rheumatology with clinical experts around the world. Our current discussion topics cover highlights from key scientific presentations and/or abstracts presented at international and national rheumatology meetings.

This interactive course is designed to provide the novice hand therapist to the more experienced hand therapist knowledge about the anatomical structures affected by, the pathological processes involved, and management of arthritis.

COURSE DESCRIPTION Chronic inflammatory joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing Spondylitis are highly destructive and disabling diseases that affect millions of individuals in the US and worldwide. Fortunately, treatment of these conditions has advanced tremendously in the last decade, largely because of the development of targeted biological therapies and a more aggressive management approach. Patients are experiencing less pain and joint damage and ...

Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory arthritis, affecting up to 1% of the adult population. In the U.S. alone, it is estimated that 2.5 million people suffer from the disease, with a societal monetary cost measured in the billions. The clinical course of RA is variable: some patients suffer mild, self-limiting arthritis while others develop progressive mult...

Standard therapies can relieve symptoms in some patients and provide partial improvement in others. However, some patients may have more refractory disease whereby significant symptoms persist despite treatment. Thus, knowledge of emerging therapies can be helpful to patient outcomes. Treating rheumatoid arthritis, whether by standard therapy or emerging treatments, can be beneficial to both healthcare professionals and their patients. Because rheumatoid arthritis is a potentially debilitating...

ARRS Web lecture series brings presentations by the best educators in the field to your desktop, available for viewing at home or office and on your schedule. This Web Lecture includes three lectures with an estimated time to complete the activity of 1.5 hours.

The Rheumatology Highlights Report is designed for the busy clinician. It provides highlights from key scientific presentations and/or abstracts presented at the international rheumatology meeting. Clinical experts attending this meeting have selected the most significant data to report. Each activity is a 15-minute presentation. Enhancements include downloadable slide sets and audio files, and supporting abstracts with expert commentaries. This series offer two methods of participation: on yo...

**Objectives:** * Summarize the most recent significant primary care medicine-related studies * Discuss up-to-date information on all aspects of primary care, including new drugs, techniques, equipment, trials, studies, books, teaching aids, and other information pertinent to primary care * Evaluate the credibility of published data and recommendations * Describe the pros and cons of new testing procedures

This activity features a review of early diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis based on updated classification criteria. Upon completion of this activity, participants should be better able to: * Identify advances in diagnostic measures from the revised rheumatoid arthritis (RA) classification criteria * Apply the new diagnostic measures of the revised RA classification criteria to clinical practice

The treat to target (T2T) approach has been widely adopted in chronic disease settings such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension. Clinical trials have shown that a T2T strategy that aims for clinical remission/low disease activity can improve signs and symptoms and inhibit structural progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). An international task force recently published ten recommendations to guide physicians using a T2T methodology in their patients with RA.* Thi...

Session 1 – Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - Minimizing Risk of Cardiovascular Disease by Managing Hypertension: An Overview of Pharmacotherapy, Current Evidence and Future Guideline Recommendations Session 2 – Thursday, January 17, 2013 - Contemporary Pharmacotherapy For The Treatment Of Dyslipidemia: LDL Cholesterol Lowering And Beyond Session 3 – Friday, January 18, 2013 - Recent Innovations In Rheumatoid Arthritis and Gout Pharmacotherapy

Description: Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus / Keith Elkon, MD Target Audience: Full and part-time faculty, fellows, residents, medical students and research support staff Objectives: • Explain how antibodies can induce inflammatory cytokines in the brain and how this may impair brain function.

Description: Systems Approach with Inflammatory Exudates - A Novel Genus of Anti-Inflammatory & Pro-Resolving Mediators Target Audience: Full and part-time faculty, fellows, residents, medical students and research support staff Objectives: Determine whch endogenous mediators control the magnitude and duration of an innate response Discuss the impact of aspirin in the system Identify key points of the structural elucidation of novel specialized chemical mediators and the form...

This accredited activity is targeted to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Estimated time to complete this activity is 120 minutes. GOAL: To review the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and discuss pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic options for managing pain associated with RA in adults. OBJECTIVES: After completing this activity, the participant should be able to: 1.Explain the pathophysiology of RA.* 2.Discuss nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DM...

Program Overview Gout is not a headline-grabbing disease. People tend to think of it as something that only happens to hard-drinking portly old men in Dickens novels. They may be surprised to learn that the prevalence of gout is on the rise among Americans – particularly postmenopausal women – and that the increase is expected to continue steadily over the next decade. Historically, gout was attributed to meat-heavy diets and alcohol consumption. However, the current increase in gout p...

This live, three-day course will expand your knowledge and competence to perform and/or interpret Musculoskeletal ultrasound examinations, incorporate protocols and scan techniques to improve diagnostic & treatment accuracy. The course is taught by leading MSK ultrasound experts and includes interactive lectures and extensive hands-on scanning, featuring a 3:1 ratio with live models for a realistic training experience. An optional hands-on workshop using un-enbalmed human cadavers is offered ...

Mayo Clinic’s 15th Annual Internal Medicine Update: Sedona 2011 is a four-day course offering primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a practical update on a variety of subspecialty topics including allergy, cardiovascular diseases, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious diseases, integrative medicine, neurology, psychiatry, pulmonary, renal disease, rheumatology, travel medicine, and others applicable to today’s practice and pat...

Warren A. Katz, MD, is clinical professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of Rheumatology for Clinical Care Associates of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. In part 1 of this lecture, Dr Katz focused on the epidemiology and pathophysiology of osteoarthritis. Here, he discusses management, especially of pain...and pharmacologic versus nonpharmacologic therapy in osteoarthritis. This lecture and the post-test is worth 1.5 credit hours. The author desc...

Outlines efforts of the Oregon Pain Management Commission to improve pain management in the state of Oregon. Strategies include both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment of pain. Covers ethical and legal issues as well as those of special populations and offers effective tools for assessing and documenting pain. When you finish this course, you will be able to: *Discuss the experience and treatment of pain in terms of the Central Principle of Balance and current issues in pain t...

This live, two-day course is designed for physicians, sonographers, PA’s and other medical professionals involved in diagnostic MSK ultrasound evaluations. Demonstrate techniques and protocols for performing shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, knee, ankle, foot and spine ultrasound examinations and hernia evaluation. Identify sonographic appearance of commonly seen pathology. Interpret complex musculoskeletal ultrasound case studies in an interactive interpretation session and much more. This c...