Fifth Rabin Medical Center Interdisciplinary Conference in Rheumatology: The interface of the Nervous System with Systemic Autoimmune Disorders

Sunday 10.9.17 Daniel Hotel, PROGRAM

08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Reception

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome greetings

09:10 – 09:40 The "Immune-Neuron Synapse": How immune cells affect the brain Michal Schwartz, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, , Israe

09:40 – 10:20 Update on symptoms and mechanisms of Autoimmune Encephalitis Prof. Josep Dalmau, Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS (J.D.), University of Barcelona; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) (J.D.), Barcelona, Spain; Department of Neurology (J.D.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

10:20 – 10:50 Coffee Break & Exhibition

10:50 – 11:10 Inflammatory Myopathies: Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, Inclusion-body Myositis & Necrotizing autoimmune Myopathy Dr. Shirly Oren, Rheumatology Unit, Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Hospital), Petach Tikva,

11:10 – 11:50 Neuropsychiatric SLE Prof. Chaim Putterman, Division of Rheumatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA

11:50 – 12:20 Post infectious neurological disorder Prof. Israel Steiner, Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Hospital), Petach Tikva, Israel

12:20 – 13:10 Lunch

13:10 – 13:30 Multiple Sclerosis: Update for the rheumatologist Dr. Mark Hellmann, Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Hospital), Petach Tikva, Israel

13:30 – 13:50 The central nervous system basis of Fibromyalgia Dr. Ablin Jacob, Department of Internal Medicine, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

13:50 – 14:10 The neurological involvement of IgG4-related disease Dr. Elisheva Pokroy-Shapira, Rheumatology Unit, Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Hospital), Petach Tikva, Israel

14:10 – 14:30 Coffee Break & Exhibition

14:30 – 15:10 Changing paradigm of Giant-cell Arteritis therapy: Update on pathogenesis and GiACTA study Prof. Daniel Blockmans, General Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

15:10 – 15:20 CNS Vasculitis in systemic autoimmune diseases Prof. Yair Molad, Rheumatology Unit, Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Hospital), Petach Tikva, Israel

15:20 Conclusion

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