UHN/MSH Medical Grand Rounds: "Novel Strategies to Achieve Remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis"

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Mount Sinai Hospital

Auditorium, 18th Floor

Videoconferenced to:

Toronto General Hospital – Eaton Wing Ground Floor, Room #025/026

Toronto Western Hospital – Main Auditorium, 2 West Wing, Room #401

“Novel Strategies to Achieve Remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis”

SPEAKER: Dr. Edward Keystone

Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Division of Rheumatology, UHN/MSH

Director, The Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis

and Autoimmune Diseases, Mount Sinai Hospital

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Participants will appreciate the extent to which remission has been achieved in patients with RA.

2. Participants will become familiar with novel therapeutics strategies currently utilized to improve the remission rate in RA

3. Participants will understand the value of biomarkers and response to therapy in RA.

UHNMSH FLYER July 21 10 MSH Keystone.doc