The Golden Gate Bridge is a fitting symbol for this year’s ARHP meeting, as it is the organization’s golden anniversary, says Dr. Breland. Celebrating 50 Years of Advances in Rheumatology Health Professions, this year’s Distinguished Lecturer is Teresa Brady, MD, who will give an overview of the past half century of ARHP accomplishments. The Daltroy Memorial Lecture will also celebrate great achievements by health professionals when Kate Lorig, DrPH, discusses Arthritis Self-Management: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going? ARHP’s Great Debate session will tackle one of the urgent medical issues of our time. In Opiates … Use or Abuse? the panel will grapple with the role that opiates should play in rheumatology treatment.
Other exciting sessions will include:
> LGBTQ: Conversations in Care, a groundbreaking discussion by clinicians on how to have conversations with LGBTQ patients about their care;
> Pediatric Lupus Transitional Care: An Interactive Experience, which will provide tools to help pediatric lupus patients as they move to adult rheumatology practices; and
> Immunology Boot Camp, three sessions on introductory, intermediate and advanced immunology that are back by popular demand.
Attend the opening lecture— Education at Scale: Beyond an Experiment Lecturer: Daphne Koller, PhD, Stanford University
Dr. Koller, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, is the president and a co-founder of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Dr. Koller will discuss how the massive open online courses (MOOCs) model can improve learning experiences via blended learning and the use of big data analytics to allow continuous improvement on pedagogy. She will also describe the real and potential impact of providing unprecedented access to education to learners around the world. The Opening Lecture and Awards will take place on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 4:30–6:15 p.m.
Join us in San Francisco for the 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting on Nov. 6–11! The advance registration deadline is Oct. 21. Visit ACRAnnualMeeting.org to register and to find more information on all Annual Meeting sessions.
