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"What Every American Needs to Know About Autoimmune Disease"

Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM (CT)

Chicago, IL

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“What Every American Needs to Know About Autoimmune Disease”

This FREE conference is open to autoimmune patients, their families,

healthcare providers, and the general public


Saturday, November 5, 2011

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Rush Medical Center - Searle Conference Center, Room 500

Professional Building, 5th floor, Main Lounge

1725 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL  60612

 

AGENDA

10:00 AM Registration/Exhibits

10:30 AM Welcome – Judith Luborsky, PhD, Professor, Associate Dean for Research, College of Health Sciences, Rush University


10:45 AM What is Autoimmunity? – Noel R. Rose, MD, PhD, Director of the Autoimmune Disease Research Center, Johns Hopkins University


11:25 AM   Women and Autoimmune Disease – Rita Baron-Faust, MPH, CHES – author of The Autoimmune Connection


11:45 PM Pain Management – Sean O’Mahony, MB, BCh, BAO, Assistant Professor, Rush University

12:10 PM Break


12:25 PM Neurologic Diseases – Dusan Stefoski, MD, Associate Professor, Rush University – invited


12:50 PM Lunch Break (Lunch will be served)

1:50 PM Gastrointestinal Diseases – Mark T. DeMeo, MD, Associate Professor, Rush University


2:10 PM Research Frontier: Reproductive Failure, Ovarian Autoimmunity and Ovarian Cancer – Judith Luborsky, Ph.D.


2:30 PM Being Your Own Best Advocate - Virginia T. Ladd, President and Executive Director, AARDA


2:50 PM Break


3:05 PM Rheumatic Autoimmune Diseases – Andrew D. Ruthberg, MD, Assistant Professor, Rush University


3:25 PM Lupus – Meenakshi Jolly, MD, MSCP, - Assistant Professor, Rush University

 
3:45 PM Vasculitis: What You Need to Know – Antoine G. Sreih, MD, Assistant Professor, Rush University


4:05 PM   Q&A 

 

Registration is required.

 

 

 

American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association

22100 Gratiot Ave, Eastpointe, MI 48021

www.aarda.org

 

When & Where



Rush University Medical Center - Searle Conference Center, Room 500
Professional Building, 5th floor, Main Lounge
1725 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60612

Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM (CT)


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American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA)



 

The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association is dedicated to the eradication of autoimmune diseases and the alleviation of suffering and the socioeconomic impact of autoimmunity through fostering and facilitating collaboration in the areas of education, public awareness, research, and patient services in an effective, ethical and efficient manner.

The AARDA is the only national nonprofit health agency dedicated to bringing a national focus to autoimmunity, the major cause of serious chronic diseases. Approximately 50 million Americans, 20 percent of the population or one in five people, suffer from autoimmune diseases. Women are more likely than men to be affected; some estimates say that 75 percent of those affected--some 30 million people--are women. Still, with these statistics, autoimmunity is rarely discussed as a women's health issue.