PReS School webinars

PReS School webinars will be held 3rd Tuesday each month, from 12:00 to 13:00 pm CET, 1 hour duration - 2 moderators (1 senior, 1 EMERGE), and 2 speakers (20 minutes presentation each). Each webinar will be organized by one Working Party. Our goal is to review knowledge in pediatric rheumatology from medium to advanced level, at the same time that we build community between PReS members across the world. 

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Upcoming webinar

The potential of CAR T cells for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (12:00 to 13:00 CEST)

Agenda:

Advancements in cellular therapies for autoimmune diseases

CAR T-cell therapy in adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies

Speakers:

Franco Locatelli Full Professor of Pediatrics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome and Head of the Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology and Cell and Gene Therapy at the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome.

Rebecca Nicolai is a Pediatric Rheumatologist and clinical researcher at the Division of Rheumatology, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome. Her work is focused on the pathogenesis and treatment of juvenile dermatomyositis and other autoimmune connective tissue diseases such as juvenile scleroderma and juvenile sjoegren's disease.

Moderators:

Brigitte Bader-Meunier (FR, PReS JDM WP Educational Lead)
Charalampia Papadopoulou (UK, PReS JDM WP Chair)

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Past webinars

MAS / sJIA Working Party Webinar

Tuesday, 18 February, 2025 (12:00 to 13:00 CEST)

Speakers: o Fabrizio De Benedetti “Diagnosis and management of Still’s disease: insights from the new EULAR/PReS recommendations” o Grant Schulert “Haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for children with refractory sJIA – considerations and outcomes”

Moderators: Claudia Bracaglia, Francesca Minoia, Bas Vastert, Christoph Kessel

Vasculitis Working Party Webinar

Tuesday 21 January 2025 (12:00 to 13:00 CET)
Hot Topics in (Paediatric) Behçet’s Disease

Speakers:
Isabelle Kone Paut : "New Insights in (Pediatric) Behçet’s Disease"
Ezgi Deniz BATU "Monogenic Mimickers of Behçet’s Disease"

Moderators:
Judith Sánchez Manubens
Reima Bakry

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PReS Introductory Courses on Pediatric Rheumatology

How to Diagnose and Treat MAS in Still's Disease

6 March 2025, 13.00-14.00pm (CET)
Organised by the MAS/sJIA Working Party

Moderators:

Bas Vastert - Division of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatric Rheumatology and
Immunology, Whilelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht – Netherlands


Christoph Kessel - Department of Pediatric Rheumatology & Immunology, WWU
Medical Center (UKM), Muenster, Germany

Speakers:
Seza Ozen, President of PReS

Adrien Schvartz – Laboratory of Single-Cell Inflammatory Responses and multi-OMICs Networks - Imagine Institute - Paris, France

Francesca Minoia - Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Grande Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano - Italy

Claudia Bracaglia - Division of Rheumatology, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Roma – Italy

Agenda


13.00: Welcome and introduction – Seza Ozen, President of PReS
13.05-13.15: Clinical case: Still’s Disease complicated by MAS – Adrien Schvartz – Laboratory of
Single-Cell Inflammatory Responses and multi-OMICs Networks - Imagine Institute - Paris, France
13.15 – 13.35: How to diagnose MAS: from classification criteria to new biomarkers – Francesca
Minoia - Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Grande Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano - Italy
13.35-13.50: How to manage MAS: from first-line therapy to targeted treatments- Claudia
Bracaglia - Division of Rheumatology, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Roma – Italy
13.50-14.00: A&Q

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