Listed below are upcoming events that the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) either sponsors or cosponsors. AARDA sponsors scientific meetings in order to bring together scientists from many different medical specialties around the broad topic of autoimmunity. AARDA does this to increase cross fertilization of scientific knowledge about autoimmunity in the research community. Public forums are presented as a method of educating the public about autoimmune diseases in general.
Also listed are scientific meetings that may be of interest to the autoimmune scientific community but are not sponsored or supported by AARDA.
To view past events in which AARDA has participated, please click the "Past Events" button below.
Date
Event
January 17, 2009
PUBLIC FORUM--What Every American Needs to Know about Autoimmune Disease, Scottsdale, AZ. From 1:00- 4:00 PM at the Civic Center Library, Civic Center Auditorium 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd., Scottsdale. Open to the general public, patients and health professionals. Complimentary registration, but reservations are required. Contact AARDA at 586-776-3900. Featured speakers include Noel R. Rose, M.D., Ph.D.,director, Johns Hopkins University Center for Autoimmune Disease Research; Stephen Balch, M.D., medical director, Lupus Treatment Center, The Center for Specialty Medicine in Atlanta; Robert Phillips, Ph.D., director, Center for Coping in suburban New York City and Virginia Ladd, president and executive director AARDA. Seats are limited so we encourage you to make your reservation today by calling AARDA at 586-776-3900 or by email to aarda@aarda.org
Jan 29-31, 2009
7th International Medinterna Meeting "Controversies in Autoimmune Diseases" in Porto. For more information contact the Secretariat at assmedinterna@hotmail.com
February 14, 2009
PUBLIC FORUM--What Every American Needs to Know about Autoimmune Disease, in San Diego, California. Open to the general public, patients and health professionals. The FREE public forum will be held on Saturday, February 14, from 1:00-4:00pm at the Holiday Inn-San Diego-Bayside at 4875 North Harbor Drive, in San Diego. Reservations are required. Call the AARDA office at 586-776-3900 or send an email to aarda@aarda.org to reserve your seat. More information to come.
April 26, 2009
PUBLIC FORUM--What Every American Needs to Know about Autoimmune Disease, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Open to the general public, patients and health professionals. More information to come.
May 6-9-, 2009
Immune Tolerance in Cancer and Autoimmune Disease, in Jolly Beach Resort, Antigua. Email ABCAM for information to events@abcam.com
May 8-10, 2009
4th International Conference on NeuroEndocrine Immunology in Rheumatic Diseases Translation from Basics to Clinics, in Santa Margherita, Genova, Italy. The aim of the congress will be to present interesting neuroimmunoendocrine aspects of the pathophysiology of rheumatic diseases presenting new aspects for diagnosis and therapeutical intervention. Professor Maurizio Cutolo, a member of AARDA's Scientific Advisory Board is Chairman. For further information, visit the website at www.4thNEIRD.com
May 28-29, 2009
Bridging Innate and Adaptive Immunity, Allergy and Asthma Symposium in Bruges, Belgium. www.abcam.com/allergyasthma
June 4-6, 2009
Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) third annual scientific meeting, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Symposia includes a section "sex chromosomes and autoimmunity." Visit www.ossdweb.org to view the full agenda and register.
June 11-14, 2009
FOCIS 2009 - The Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) Annual Meeting--in San Francisco, California. For information visit their website at www.focisnet.org
June 10-13, 2009
EULAR 2009 -- Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, in Copenhagen, Denmark. See their website for details www.eular.org/eular2009
July 30-Aug 01, 2009
3rd Latin American Congess on Autoimmunity, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Congress President is Yehuda Shoenfeld. For more information see www.kenes.com/laca
July 30 - Aug 2, 2009
Rheumatology Nurses Society - 2nd Annual Conference, in Las Vegas, NV. For more information visit www.rns-network.org
August 4-7, 2009
XIII Congreso Asociacion Centroamericana, Caribe y Andina de Reumatologia, in Arequipa, Peru. The Sociedad Peruana de Reumatologia. www.socreuma.org/acca2009
Sept 13-16, 2009
2nd European Congress of Immunology in Berlin, Germany. For information, see their website at www.eci-berlin2009.com
Sept 11-13, 2009
4th Asian Congress on Autoimmunity, Singapore. Congress President is Yehuda Shoenfeld, Israel. For more information, visit www.kenes.com/aca
Oct 16-21, 2009
American College of Rheumatology -2009 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. For information, visit their website at www.rheumatology.org/annual
February 4-7, 2010
9th International Conference on New Trends in Immunosuppression and Immunotherapy, in Prague, Czech Republic. Dedicated to recent developments in basic and clinical immunosuppression, immuned modulation and immunotherapy. For more information, see www.kenes.com/immuno
April 13-16, 2010
APLA 2010: " Antiphospholipid by the Beach", 13th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies, Galveston, Texas, USA. For more information, contact Dr. Pierangeli at sspieran@utmb.edu
April 25-28, 2010
PANLAR 2010 --XVI Congress of Panamerican Leagues Against Rheumatism, in Santiago, Chile. For information, see their website at www.panlarchile2010.cl
May 5-9, 2010
7th International Congress on Autoimmunity, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Congress President in Yehuda Shoenfeld, Israel. For more information see www.kenes.com/autoimmunity
June 16-19, 2010
EULAR 2010 - Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Rome, Italy. www.eular.org
June 24-27, 2010
9th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For information, email lupus2010@advance-group.com
