Scientific Program

DAY ONE: 20 Jan 2018, Saturday

Time Topic Speaker/Presenter
09.00 – 10.00 Case presentation:
Difficult cases in Lupus (4×15 mins)
PDT/PGTs
10.00 – 10.40 Renal Lupus: Better understanding of pathogenesis and new horizons in therapy Daniel TM Chan, HK
10.40 – 11.20 Planning pregnancy in Lupus: rheumatologist’s perspective Ian Gilles, UK
11.20 – 12.00 Spectrum of pediatric Lupus: How different from adult? Amita Aggarwal
12.00 – 12.40 Neurolupus: confusions and clarifications Debashish Danda
12.40 – 13.40 LUNCH & POSTER Viewing PGT/PDT/Others
13.40 – 14.20 Emergencies in Lupus: State of the art lecture David d Cruz, UK
14.20 – 15.00 Corticosteroids in Lupus: Past, present and future Ramnath Misra
15.00 – 16.00 Panel discussion:
Non organ threatening disease and immunosuppression: skin, cytopenia, lung
Rohini Handa, Ashok Kumar
G Narsimulu
Moderator: Alakendu Ghosh
16.00 – 16.40 Kidney in Lupus: looking beyond ISN/RPS classification in ‘renal lupus’ Daniel TM Chan, HK

DAY TWO: 21 Jan 2018, Sunday

Time Topic Speaker/Presenter
10.00 – 10.40 APS pathogenesis and recent advances David d Cruz, UK
10.40 – 11.20 Management of pregnancy in Lupus: overcoming difficulties Ian Gilles, UK
11.20 – 12.00 Problem oriented medical management in Lupus: 2 case scenarios (NPLE, Infection) Dr Rudra Prosad Goswami
Dr Kaushik Basu
12.00 – 13.00 Panel discussion:
The clinical kaleidoscope of APS: problem based discussion
Rajiva Gupta, Sapan Pandya,
Parasar Ghosh
Moderator: Pradyot Sinhamahapatra
13.00 – 13.40 View points: My standard drug for managing proliferative lupus nephritis –
Cyclophosphamide, Mycophenolate, Rituximab
Pradip Sarma (Rituximab)
Ramesh Jois (Mycophenolate)
Shyamasish Das (Cyclophosphamide)
13.40 VALEDICTORY