On Demand: Yale Rheumatology State of the Art Symposium - Reactive Arthritis, Post-Infections, Inflammatory Disease, and Lessons for COVID

This on demand webinar is a recording from the live activity entitled, 2nd Annual Yale International Rheumatology Symposium, which was held on May 18, 2022.  The 2nd Annual Yale International Rheumatology Symposium was a day-long live Zoom webinar that considered "reactive arthritis" in the broadest sense. They had recruited internationally recognized expert speakers. Starting with a session on classical reactive arthritis, followed by examining a variety of post-infectious inflammatory diseases, clinically distinct, but sharing potential pathogenetic commonalities. They ended the webinar with a consideration of the challenge of "long COVID" and the role of immune dysfunction in the perpetuation of this illness. This on demand webinar is intended for rheumatologists and trainees. 

Release Date: July 13, 2022

Expiration Date: July 13, 2023

Estimated Time to Complete:  7 Hours; 27 mins

1. Review the clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of reactive arthritis
2. Discuss the microbiome and the pathogenesis of post infectious inflammatory disease
3. Manage post-acute COVID syndromes
4. Identify at-risk individuals
5. Discuss pre-autoimmunity and the prevention of rheumatic disease
6. Illustrate knowledge of innovations and advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory diseases

There is no fee for this module, however you will be required to set a CloudCME  profile, if your do not already have one. 

Instructions for Completion
To begin the on demand webinar, click "Launch Video" under "Content & Tests" tab.
Upon completion of the video, close that window and click on the Attestation button, complete then click on Show Results.
Next click on Complete Evaluation, submit and receive credit.

For any reason, if you are not automatically redirected to the evaluation after completing the attestation, click on the orange My CME button, then Evaluations & Certificates to complete the evaluation and claim credit for this module.

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Accreditation Statement
The Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Designation Statement
The Yale School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Financial Statement
Yale School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology is grateful to its supporters.  They are acknowledged in all conference materials.

Disclosure Policy
It is the policy of Yale School of Medicine, Continuing Medical Education, to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all its educational programs.  All faculty participating as speakers in these programs are required to disclose any relevant financial relationship(s) they (or spouse or partner) have with a commercial interest that benefits the individual in any financial amount that has occurred within the past 12 months; and the opportunity to affect the content of CME about the products or services of the commercial interests.  The Center for Continuing Medical Education will ensure that any conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity occurs.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Faculty Member Information

Role in activity

Name of Ineligible Company(s) / Nature of Relationship(s)

Amita Aggarwal, MD
Professor and Head of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology
RaiBarielly road
Lucknow, India

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Richard Bucala, MD
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiology & Public Health
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Leonard Calabrese, DO
Vice Chair, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Heights, OH

Faculty

Consulting Fee-UCB|Consulting Fee-Janssen|Consulting Fee-Sanofi|Consulting Fee-GlaxoSmithKline|Consulting Fee-AstraZeneca

Vaidehi Chowdhary, MD
Associate Professor; Clinical Chief, Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology
Yale School of Medicine
East Haven, CT

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Atul Deodhar, MD
Professor of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Abbvie|Grant or research support-Abbvie|Advisor-Amgen|Consulting Fee-Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (Relationship has ended)|Consulting Fee-Bristol Myers Squibb|Grant or research support-Bristol Myers Squibb|Grant or research support-Celgene|Consulting Fee-Lilly|Grant or research support-Lilly|Consulting Fee-Janssen|Grant or research support-Janssen|Honoraria-Janssen|Consulting Fee-GlaxoSmithKline|Consulting Fee-Novartis|Grant or research support-Novartis|Honoraria-Novartis|Consulting Fee-Pfizer|Grant or research support-Pfizer|Honoraria-Pfizer|Consulting Fee-UCB|Grant or research support-UCB|Honoraria-UCB

Luis Diaz, MD
CE Wheeler Jr Distinguised Professor of Dermatology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Faculty

Jon T Giles, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeon
New York, NY

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Pfizer|Consulting Fee-Abbvie (Relationship has ended)|Consulting Fee-Lilly|Consulting Fee-Gilead (Relationship has ended)|Consulting Fee-Bristol Myers Squibb (Relationship has ended)|Consulting Fee-Novartis (Relationship has ended)|Grant or research support-Pfizer (Relationship has ended)

Luiza Guilherme, PhD
Professor of immunology and Immunopathology
University Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Faculty

Nigil Haroon, MD, PhD
Professor
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Faculty

Advisor-Abbvie (Relationship has ended)|Advisor-Janssen (Relationship has ended)|Advisor-Novartis (Relationship has ended)|Advisor-UCB (Relationship has ended)

Kevan C. Herold, MD
YC.N.H. Long Professor of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Faculty

Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Boehringer Ingelheim (Relationship has ended)

Frederick W Miller, MD, PhD, Scientist Emeritus
NIH Scientist Emeritus
NIEHS, NIH
RTP, NC

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Renuka R Nayak, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Robert Schoen, MD, MBA
Clinical Professor of Rheumatology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Faculty

Speakers Bureau-Abbvie|Speakers Bureau-Amgen|Speakers Bureau-Bristol Myers Squibb (Relationship has ended)|Speakers Bureau-Genentech (Relationship has ended)|Speakers Bureau-Janssen|Speakers Bureau-Lilly|Speakers Bureau-Sanofi|Paid consultant-UCB

Jennifer Scott, MD
Visiting Research Fellow
Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine
Dublin 7, Ireland

Faculty

Erica S Spatz, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Faculty

Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-Regeneron (Relationship has ended)

Allen C Steere, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jinoos Yazdany, MD
Chief of Rheumatology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Faculty

Consulting Fee-AstraZeneca|Consulting Fee-Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (Relationship has ended)|Honoraria-Pfizer (Relationship has ended)|Grant or research support-Gilead|Grant or research support-Bristol Myers Squibb|Grant or research support-AstraZeneca