Provisional Programme

Saturday 13th September 2008

Young Investigator Meeting

Venue: Institute of Child Health

Sunday 14th September 2008

8.00 – 13.00	PReS Council Meeting
9.30 – 16.30	Allied Health Professionals Interactive Learning Day Full programme listed on Educational Courses section of the website Educational Course for Doctors Programme to be confirmed
12.30	Registration opens and coffee
13.00 – 17.30	PReS Committees and Working Group Meetings

18.00 – 20.00	Opening Ceremony
18.00 – 18.15 18.15 – 18.45 18.45 – 19.15	Welcome address Keynote Lecture Professor Sir Gordon Duff (Sheffield, UK) Concert Performances from The Purcell School for young musicians and Arts  Educational School in Tring, UK

19.15 – 20.00 Welcome Reception, University College London  

Monday 15th September 2008

8.00 – 9.00 Registration, poster viewing, exhibition and coffee

Session 1: JIA research translated into therapy
9.00 – 10.45	10 years' of antiTNF : side effects and post marketing data on efficacy, infection and malignancies, and outcomes Tauny Southwood (Birmingham, UK) TB and mechanims: effect of anti-TNF on mycobacterial immunity Michael Levin (London, UK) Cell therapies for the future Francesco Dazzi (London, UK) Induction of tolerance in JIA with peptide therapy Berent Prakken (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee, poster viewing and exhibition

Parallel Sessions
11.15 – 12.30	Session 2: JIA free communications	Session 3: Restoration of normal function Advanced hand therapy in JIA Julie Payne (London, UK) Walking Jill Ferrari (London, UK) Fatigue Gay Kuchta (Vancouver, Canada) Free Communications

12.30 – 14.30 Lunch, poster viewing and exhibition  

13.30 – 14.00 14.00 – 14.30

Challenges of conducting clinical trials in rare diseases        Alberto Martini (Genoa, Italy) PRINTO meeting

Parallel Sessions
14.30 - 16.00	Session 4: New insights into immunological regulation and genetic basis of JIA New regulatory T cell networks: Th17 and Tregs Lucy Wedderburn (London, UK) Macrophage regulation Johannes Roth (Münster, Germany) Hot topic in genomics Speaker to be announced Free Communications	Session 5: Current challenges in the management of inflammatory disease Practical problems of the new biologics for JIA and their solutions Netelie Levi (London, UK) and Polly Livermore (London, UK) Bone health in inflammatory diseases in different age groups and interrelationship with exercises Rolando Cimaz (Florence, Italy) Fitness in inflammatory diseases and age approrpiate improvement strategies Janjaap van der Net (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

16.00 – 16.30 Tea, poster viewing and exhibition

Parallel Sessions
16.30 - 18.00	Session 6: Skeletal Symposium Sponsored by Genzyme Lysosomal storage disease and new treatments J. Ed Wraith (Manchester, UK) Radiology Amaka Offiah (London, UK) Role of the orthopedic surgeon and the Allied Health Professionals Bianca Link (Mainz, Germany) Free communications	Session 7: Free communications	Working Group Meetings

Tuesday 16th September

8.00 – 9.00 Registration, poster viewing and coffee

Session 8: Myositis
9.00 – 10.45	Genetics and mechanisms in adults and children Frederick Miller (Bethesda, USA) Unexpected clinical problems and new management strategies Clarissa Pilkington (London, UK) Free communications

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee, poster viewing and exhibition

Parallel Sessions
11.15 - 12.30    + 11.15 - 12.45	11.15 – 12.30 Session 9: JDM/vasculitis free communications and Young Investigator Meeting prize winners	11.15 – 12.45 Session 10: Focus on sports and exercise in young people and adolescents Challenges in setting up a sports academy for able and disabled children in a deprived area Tessa Sanderson (London, UK) Exercise, nutrition and inflammation Brian Timmons (Hamilton, Canada) Personal experience Robert Walker (Harpenden, UK) Self help groups and activities ENCA speaker to be confirmed

12.30 – 14.30 Lunch, poster viewing and exhibition

13.00 – 14.30 PReS AGM

Parallel Sessions
14.30 - 16.00	Session 11: Vasculitis Patient to bench- vasculitis of the young Mike Dillon (London, UK) Old and new treatments, the rationale and evidence base David Jayne (Cambridge, UK) Cardiovascular risk from inflammation Rae Yeung (Toronto, Canada) Case discussions with expert panel Chair: Paul Brogan (London, UK)	Session 12: Autoinflammatory diseases Highlights from the autoinflammatory conference, May 2008 Marco Gattorno (Genova, Italy) and Seza Ozen (Ankara, Turkey) Free communications

16.00 – 16.30 Tea, poster viewing and exhibition

Parallel Sessions
16.30 – 18.00	Session 13: Acleroderma Symposium New tools for measuring disease activity in localised scleroderma in young people Lisa Weibel (Zurich, Switzerland) Skin scores: what it tells us in adults and children Chris Denton (London, UK) and Ivan Foedvari (Hamburg, Germany) Cardiopulmonary complications in systemic sclerosis and treatment Athol Wells (London, UK) Free communications	Session 14: Free Communications	Working Group Meetings

19.30 - 23.00  Congress Dinner – Middle Temple Hall

Wednesday 17th September

8.00 – 9.00 Registration, exhibition, poster viewing and coffee

Session 15: Pain
9.00 – 10.15	Scientific basis of acute and chronic pain Maria Fitzgerald (London, UK) JIA, more than a disease of the joints Wietse Kuis (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Free communications

10.15 – 10.45 Exhibition and poster viewing

Session 16: Pain
10.45 – 12.15 11.45 – 12.00 12.00 – 12.15	Treatment of chronic pain: two sides of a coin a) Live with pain Jackie Clinch (Bristol, UK) b) Physical function despite pain Susan Maillard (London, UK) Panel discussion Discussion of pain questionnaire results Closing address and close of Congress

12.15 – 16.00 BSPAR AGM and Committee Meetings