Activities

Activity Overview

During the State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium (SOTA), key opinion leaders presented a range of content in areas such as therapeutic developments, recent research findings, and scientific advances.

Topics

• Under Pressure: Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension for the Rheumatologist 
  Stephen Mathai, MD, MHS 

• Interstitial Insights 
  Bradford Bemiss, MD 

• Combined Q&A 
  Stephen Mathai, MD, MHS; Bradford Bemiss, MD 

• Stuck in Transit: GI Manifestations in Scleroderma 
  Zsuzsanna McMahan, MD, MHS 

• Vessels in Distress: Recommendations on If and How to Taper Treatment 
  Alexandra Villa-Forte, MD, MPH, FACP 

• Vectors on the Move 
  Cassandra Calabrese, DO 

• Little Joints, Big Clues: A Look into Pediatric Rheumatology 
  Sangeeta Sule, MD, PhD 

• Precision in Psoriatic Arthritis: Updates on Diagnosis and Treatment 
  Ana-Maria Orbai, MD, MHS 

• Axial Spondyloarthritis 
  Liron Caplan, MD, PhD 

• SLE in the Real World: Complexities and Challenges 
  Saira Sheikh, MD 

• Lupus Nephritis Reloaded: New Drugs, New Tools, New Hope 
  Ali Duarte-Garcia, MD 

• Combined Q&A 
  Saira Sheikh, MD; Ali Duarte-Garcia, MD 

• Joint Action: Advances in Rheumatoid Arthritis 
  Diane Horowitz, MD, RhMSUS 

• Breaking the Resistance: Tackling Myositis 
  Didem Saygin, MD 

• CPPD: Classification Criteria, Outcomes, and Treatment in an Underdiagnosed Disease 
  Ann Rosenthal, MD, MACR 

• Granuloma Games: Real World Challenges in Sarcoidosis 
  Arthur Yee, MD, PhD 

• Breaking the Clot: Updates in Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Thrombotic Microangiopathies 
  Jason Knight, MD, PhD 

Target Audience

Rheumatologists, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, program directors, and fellows in training.

Registration is discounted for ACR/ARP members. If you are not a member, consider joining ACR/ARP.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 

• Review the most up-to-date evidence-based treatment approaches in the diagnosis and management of rheumatic diseases including psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoarthritis

• Review more complex clinical presentations, disease pathology, and treatment modalities in patients with lupus, refractory or recurrent idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, sarcoidosis, scleroderma

• Summarize updated guidelines for complex manifestations of rheumatic disease, specifically pulmonary hypertension and interstitial lung disease, and implement current recommendations for screening and treatment

• Review most up-to-date guidelines and clinical recommendations in pediatric rheumatology diseases

• Recognize Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses that present phenotypically similar to rheumatic disease and review best treatment modalities for these patients

CE & MOC Information

In support of improving patient care, the American College of Rheumatology is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Provider Number: 0003797

See the ACR's CE Mission Statement. For more information, download the AMA PRA Booklet. 

Credit must be claimed by May 3, 2029, at 11:59 PM ET.  

All participating healthcare professionals should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity. 

Available Credit

• CME: 9.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

• ABIM MOC: 9.00 Medical Knowledge Points

• ANCC: 9.00 Contact Hours

AMA Designation Statement

The American College of Rheumatology designates this enduring material for a maximum of 9.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

MOC Recognition Statement: American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 9.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

By completing this activity, you provide the ACR permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board. 

After submitting a reflective statement with key takeaways from the activity, MOC points will be applied for ABIM diplomates to the ABIM diplomate number and date of birth provided when you registered. Points are sent nightly to ACCME and then transferred to the ABIM Physician Portal. Please allow at least 48 hours for points to display in the portal.

Financial Relationship Disclosures

ACR Disclosure Statement

It is the policy of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) to ensure that Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners and the public, the ACR requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ACR has implemented mechanisms prior to the planning and implementation of this CME activity to identify and mitigate all relevant financial relationships for all individuals in a position to control the content of this CME activity.

Nature of Financial Relationships

All individuals that participate in an ACR-sponsored activity and are able to change content or influence the content of the activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationships with ineligible companies including, but not limited to:

1. Advisor or review panel member

2. Consultant

3. Employee

4. Officer or Board Member

5. Grant/research support

6. Speaker/honoraria includes speaker’s bureau, symposia, and expert witness

7. Independent contractor

8. Executive role and/or ownership interest

9. Royalties and/or patent beneficiary

10. Intellectual property/patents

11. Stock options or bond holdings in a for-profit corporation or self-directed pension plan

12. Private investigator

13. Expert witness

14. Equity interest

15. Other: specify details

None: Has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

All participants that created and/or were able to influence the content and delivery of this activity reported the following disclosures. All of the relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated. State-of-the-Art Symposium Faculty Disclosure Mitigation

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support

No commercial support was provided for this activity.

Educational Activity Policies

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