Interactive, small-group Meet the Professor sessions provide attendees with an opportunity to engage with faculty on a variety of rheumatology topics.
Reintroduced last year at ACR Convergence following a break that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, these limited-capacity sessions will be offered throughout the day Sunday–Tuesday, October 26–28, in response to attendee demand.
“We brought back the Meet the Professor sessions, and it was very well received,” said one of the Meet the Professor organizers, Christopher Palma, MD, RhMSUS, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology at the University of Rochester. “So, we decided to go back to what we used to do pre-pandemic and build on a very successful program last year.”
This year’s Meet the Professor lineup features more than three dozen sessions across 20 topics within the field of rheumatology. Multiple sessions are offered on most of the featured topics.
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
- Autoinflammatory disease
- Axial spondyloarthritis
- Crystalline arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Inflammatory brain disease
- Lupus nephritis
- Myositis
- Osteoarthritis challenges
- Osteoporosis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Reproductive health
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis-interstitial lung disease (ILD)/connective tissue disease/ILD
- Sjögren’s disease
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis
- Vasculitis
- Vasculitis mimics
“These sessions are meant to be more interactive than the normal programming and give smaller groups more dynamic contact with the very top leaders in the field in multiple different subspecialties of rheumatology,” Dr. Palma said. “We try and cover topics that are novel or have new developments, but also topics that have high clinical demands and requirements.”
The diversity of the content is designed to enable participants to improve their future care of patients with new diseases, common clinically challenging scenarios, and conditions clinicians see every day, but for which there may be new developments in therapies and treatment approaches.
“The quality and the breadth of the faculty that participate are really where the value is — getting that face-to-face time with the world’s leading experts in these subspecialties of rheumatology and being able to ask questions in such a small setting,” Dr. Palma said.
Meet the Professor sessions require a separate registration fee in addition to an ACR Convergence meeting pass. Advance registration is recommended, and space is limited in each session. ACR and ARP members can attend for $85 per session. Potential members can attend for $135 per session.
Don’t Miss a Session
If you weren’t able to make it to a live session during ACR Convergence 2025 — or you want to revisit a session from the annual meeting — make plans to watch the replay. All registered participants receive on-demand access to scientific sessions after the meeting through October 31, 2026.