- Wednesday, February 15, 2017
- Thursday, February 16, 2017
- Friday, February 17, 2017
- Saturday, February 18, 2017
| Time | Event | Invited Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00 PM | Poster Session | |
| 7:00 PM | Welcome | John Stone (MGH/Boston) |
| 7:15 PM | A Genome-Wide Association Study in IgG4-RD | Speaker: Chikashi Terao (Kyoto)
Moderator: Tsutomu Chiba (Kyoto) |
| 7:45 PM | Macrophages, Humoral Innate Immunity, and Orchestration of Tissue Repair | Speaker: Alberto Mantovani (Milan) Moderator: Emanuel Della Torre (Milan) |
| 8:45 PM | CLOSE |
| Time | Event | Presenter or Moderator |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | (Provided by Symposium) |
| 7:20 AM | Welcome | Tsutomu Chiba (Kyoto) |
| Focus: IgG4-RD | ||
| 7:30 AM | Understanding the Pathophysiology of IgG4-RD | Speaker: Shiv Pillai (MGH/Boston) Moderator: Seiji Nakamura (Kyushu) |
| 8:00 AM | Basophils in Immune-Mediated Disease | Speaker: Hajime Karasuyama (Tokyo) Moderator: Shiv Pillai (MGH/Boston) |
| 8:30 AM | Molecular Characterization of Plasmablasts in IgG4-RD | Speaker: Vinay Mahajan (MGH/Boston) Moderator: Emanuel Della Torre (Milan) |
| 9:00 AM | BREAK | (Provided by Symposium) |
| T cells: Cytotoxic T cells and T Follicular Helper Cells | ||
| 9:30 AM | CD4+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes in IgG4-RD | Speaker: Hamid Mattoo (MGH/Boston) Moderator: Tsutomu Chiba (Kyoto) |
| 10:00 AM | Analysis of T Follicular Helper Cells & IgG4 Class-Switching | Speaker: Takashi Maehara (MGH/Boston) Moderator: Hajime Karasuyama (Tokyo) |
| 10:30 AM | Follicular Helper T cells in the Pathophysiology of IgG4-RD | Speaker: Mitsuhiro Akiyama (Kyoto) Moderator:Takashi Maehara (MGH/Boston) |
| Innate Immunity | ||
| 11:00 AM | Possible involvement of innate immunity in the pathogenesis of IgG4-RD | Speaker: Seiji Nakamura (Kyushu) Moderator: Vinay Mahajan (MGH/Boston) |
| 11:30 AM | Role of Innate immunity in type 1 AIP | Speaker: Kazushige Uchida (Hirakata) Moderator: Hamid Mattoo (MGH/Boston) |
| 12:00 AM | BREAK | (Provided by Symposium) |
| ACR/EULAR Classification Criteria for IgG4-RD | Moderator: John Stone (MGH/Boston) | |
| 12:00 PM | What are Classification Criteria? What are they not? | Speaker: Ray Naden (McMaster) |
| 12:45 PM | The 2016 ACR/EULAR Classification Criteria for IgG4-RD | Speaker: John Stone (MGH/Boston) |
| 1:15 PM | IgG4-RD Cases & Mimickers: A summary | Speaker: Emmanuel Della Torre (Milan) |
| 1:35 PM | Radiology Considerations in the Development of Classification Criteria: What do the Key Exclusion Criteria & Relative Criteria Look Like? | Speaker: Dai Inoue (Kanazawa/Mayo) |
| 1:55 PM | Pathology Considerations in the Development of Classification Criteria | Speaker: Yoh Zen (Kobe) |
| 2:15 PM | CLOSE | |
| Time | Event | Presenter or Moderator |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | (Provided by Symposium) |
| IgG4-RD: Fibrosis, Malignancy, Autoimmunity | ||
| 7:30 AM | The Balance of Cancer and Autoimmunity | Speaker: Ami Shah (Johns Hopkins) Moderator: Shiv Pillai (MGH/Boston) |
| 8:30 AM | Malignancy and IgG4-RD: What do we know now? Data from three continents: Europe, Asia, North America |
Speakers: Emma Culver (Oxford) Mitsuhiro Kawano (Kanazawa) Zachary Wallace (MGH/Boston) Moderator: Ami Shah (Johns Hopkins) |
| 9:30 AM | IgG4-RD: A blue collar disease? | Speaker: Ulrich Beuers (Amsterdam) Moderator: Kazushige Uchida (Kansai) |
| 10:00 AM | BREAK | (Provided by Conference) |
| 10:30 AM | Management of IgG4-related Sclerosing Cholangitis | Speaker: George Webster (London) Moderator: Kensuke Kubota (Yokohama) |
| 11:00 AM | Assessing Hepatic Fibrosis and its Effect on Liver Function | Speaker: Vijay Shah (Mayo) Moderator: Suresh Chari (Mayo) |
| 11:30 PM | Advances in the Assessment of Pulmonary Fibrosis | Speaker: Francesco Boin (UCSF) Moderator: Hiroshi Sekiguchi (Mayo) |
| 12:00 PM | Advances in the Treatment of Pulmonary Fibrosis: Nintendanib, IL-6 blockade, B cell depletion | Speaker: Francesco Boin (UCSF) Moderator: Vijay Shah (Mayo) |
| 12:30 PM | Factors Predictive of Relapse and Long-Term Outcomes in type1 AIP | Speaker: Kazuichi Okazaki (Osaka)
Moderator: Phil Hart (Ohio State) |
| 1:00 PM | LUNCH | (Provided by Conference) |
| A Japanese/U.S. Collaboration & Slide Swap: | ||
| 1:30 PM | Multi-Centric Castleman’s Disease & IgG4-RD: Are they the same thing? An East/West Case Swap | Speakers: Yoh Zen (Kobe) & Zachary Wallace (MGH/Boston) Moderator: Yasuharu Sato (Okayama) |
| 2:15 PM | Differentiating Multi-Centric Castleman’s Disease & IgG4-RD | Speaker: Takanori Sasaki (Keio University) Moderator: Yasuharu Sato (Okayama) |
| 2:45 PM | CLOSE | |
| SYMPOSIUM DINNER (Ticket required – $95) | ||
| 6:30 PM | Glucocorticoids in IgG4-RD | Speaker: Frank Buttgereit (Charite Hospital, Berlin) |
| Time | Event | Presenter or Moderator |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00 AM | Hot Breakfast | (Provided by Conference) |
| B cells / Plasmablasts / Other | ||
| 7:30 AM | IgG4-Related Disease Of The Bile Ducts And Pancreas: The Great Imitator | Speaker: Ulrich Beuers (Amsterdam) Moderator: Terumi Kamisawa (Tokyo) |
| 8:00 AM | Is Serum IgG In Patients With Aip Pathogenic? | Speaker: Masahiro Shiokawa (Kyoto)
Moderator: Cory Perugino (MGH/Boston) |
| 8:30 AM | Analysis Of Known Autoantigens In IgG4-RD | Speaker: Cory Perugino (MGH/Boston) Moderator: Arezou Khosroshahi (Emory) |
| 9:00 AM | IgG4-Related Dacryoadenitis & Sialadenitis:
Clinical Features, Treatment, And Prognosis |
Speaker: Motohisa Yamamoto (Sapporo) Moderator: Takako Saeki (Nagaoka) |
| The Treatment of IgG4-RD | ||
| 9:30 AM | Xmab5871: Mechanistic Considerations | Speakers: Xin Kai, John Stone (MGH/Boston)
Moderator: Hisanore Umehara (Kanazawa) |
| 10:15 AM | Management Of Orbital Inflammatory Disease / Orbital Pseudotumor |
Speaker: James Garrity (Mayo Clinic)
Moderator: Nicolas Schleinitz (Marseilles) |
| 10:40 AM | BREAK | |
| 11:00 AM | Glucocorticoid Maintenance Therapy for AIP: The Japanese Experience | Speaker: Atsushi Masamune (Sendai)
Moderator: Daniel Blockmans (Leuwen) |
| 11:30 PM | Rituximab Treatment Of IgG4-RD: An Oncologist’s View | Speaker: Thomas Witzig (Mayo)
Moderator: Marco Lanzillotta (Milan) |
| 12:00 PM | Treatment of AIP in the Clinic in 2017 and Beyond | Speaker: Phil Hart (Ohio State)
Moderator: Emma Culver (Oxford) |
| 12:30 PM | Using the IgG4-RD Responder Index in Clinical Trials | Speakers: Zachary Wallace, John Stone (MGH) Moderator: Arezou Khosroshahi (Emory) |
| 1:00 PM | CONCLUDING REMARKS | |
| 1:15 PM | ALOHA & MAHALO | |
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