During her Global Summit keynote presentation on Wednesday, Ayoade Alakija, MD, made an impassioned plea for health equity across global boundaries.

Representatives from the ACR, PANLAR, EULAR, APLAR, and AFLAR took part in a panel discussion about the future of rheumatology on Wednesday during the inaugural Global Summit.

“Adherence is one of the things that keeps me up at night,” said Kamala M. Nola, MS, PharmD, who will be joined by Maura Daly Iversen, PT, MPH, DSc, DPT, during a Saturday morning session that will highlight several tools for treatment success and better…

The recognition of multiple clinical phenotypes, improved animal models, and deeper insights into its pathogenesis are opening new avenues in osteoarthritis therapy. Tonia Vincent, MD, PhD, FRCP, and Carla Scanzello, MD, PhD, will provide an update Saturday afternoon.

Racial disparities in rheumatology have more to do with access to care than biological differences between patients, according to Ashira Blazer, MD, MSCI. Dr. Blazer and Iris Navarro-Millán, MD, MSPH, will discuss strategies to address racial disparities during a Sunday session.

During a Monday session, Yusuf Yazici, MD, Gülen Hatemi, MD, and Haner Direskeneli, MD, will discuss controversies in the management of Behçet syndrome, which is a rare and often difficult diagnosis for rheumatologists who practice outside of areas where the condition is more common.