RA and Diabetes Special

 

 

ICM Research Seminar

Speakers: Laura Ridgley, PhD Student (Prof John Isaacs/Amy Anderson)

Katrin Jaedicke, NIHR Fellow

Dr Amy Anderson, Research Associate

 

Venue: Dental Lecture Theatre F, Dental School

Date and Time:  Wednesday 28^th October 2015 13.00 pm – 14.00 pm

 

 

Laura Ridgley will discuss:

Understanding aberrant CD4+ T-cell signalling in early rheumatoid arthritis.

 

Katrin Jaedicke will discuss:

Do diabetic patients with periodontitis benefit from self-monitoring their periodontal inflammation profile?

A feasibility study.

 

Amy Anderson will discuss:

Age-associated B cells in rheumatoid arthritis

 

Chair: Kile Green, PhD Student.

 

 

 

 

Tackling Fatigue: Multi-Disciplinary Teams at the CRESTA Clinic

Fatigue is a debilitating symptom affecting quality of life and ability to perform daily activities, and is experienced by up to 70% of patients with rheumatological diseases. Many patients do not feel their fatigue is appropriately managed by their medical teams, and no services up until this point enabled patients with chronic
fatigue, irrespective of their longterm physical health condition, to access a multidisciplinary team. The CRESTA Fatigue Clinic was formed in response to this unmet need. It is a novel approach to treating on symptom based,
not disease-based, criteria. It has proved successful and we suggest it is the future of managing fatigue in chronic
diseases.

 

Rebecca L Lambson, Julia L Newton, Victoria Strassheim, Zoe M Gotts, Vincent Deary, Katie L Hackett 2015 The evolution of the Newcastle CRESTA Fatigue Clinic: a unique NHS multidisciplinary approach to fatigue. Journal of Rheumatology Occupational Therapy, 29, 7-11.

 

 

 

Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases - 19th October

 

 

Speaker:	Dr Sinisa Savic Consultant Clinical Immunologist and honorary Clinical Associate Professor, St James's University Hospital, Leeds
Venue:	Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
Date:	Monday 19th October 2015
Time:	13.00 – 14.00pm

 

Dr Sinisa Savic, MBBS, MRCP, MSc, MRCP (London), FRCPath, PhD will present:

 

Systemic autoinflammatory disorders:

pathophysiology and diagnosis in routine clinical practice

 

 

One of his main clinical and research interest is pathophysiology, diagnosis treatment of autoinflammatory conditions. His work in this area was initially focused on the pathogenesis of TNF Receptor periodic fever syndrome. More recently he has evaluated use of anakinra (anti-IL-1 biologic) in diagnosis of patients with undifferentiated (genetically undefined) autoinflammatory syndromes.

 

For the purposes of this meeting his presentation will include a brief overview of the principles which define the concept of autoinflammation. He will also present some of his work on the pathophysiology of TRAPS. He will talk about the crossover between of autoinflammation and autoimmunity and the role of these processes in the pathogenesis of more common conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.

 

Chair:  Dr Desa Lilic

 

 

 

Medicine in the Information Age

 

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