The annual Thieves Market: Show Me Your Best Cases once again will feature a variety of fascinating, mysterious, and/or uncommon clinical rheumatology cases, and the opportunity for attendees to compare their diagnostic and management strategies to those of the presenter as well as their fellow rheumatologists. And this year, there will be a second session devoted to pediatric cases.
This year’s edition of the long-running Annual Meeting favorite will take place on Monday from 4:30 – 6:00 pm in Room A411-A412, Building A in the Georgia World Congress Center.
This year’s session moderators are Aruni Jayatilleke, MD, from Temple University, Phildelphia, PA, and Elizabeth Wahl, MD, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, WA. Drs. Jayatilleke and Wahl and Sonali Khandelwal, MD, Rush University Medical Center, reviewed all the submitted cases and selected six cases for Monday’s oral presentation along with several others for inclusion in two separate poster presentations.
“The cases are judged competitively based on their uniqueness, striking imaging or physical findings, and educational value — how well they underscore issues that rheumatologists should know about,” Dr. Jayatilleke said. “They are all, in our opinions, exciting and unusual!”
Session attendees will be given an audience response handset and, at various points in each case presentation, the presenter will pose questions to the audience. After each question, attendees select the multiple-choice answer they think is best and then get to see how their decision compares to that of the others in the audience and what was done in the actual case. At the end, the audience will vote on the best case, which will receive a prize.
Pediatric Thieves Market: Show Me Your Best Caseswill take place from 1:00 – 2:30 pm Tuesday in Room B216-B217, Building B.
Pediatric session moderator Susan Shenoi, MS, MBBS, RhMSUS, Seattle Children’s Hospital, said that just like the traditional session, the new Pediatric Thieves Market will showcase six cases that received the best total scores based on uniqueness of the case and specific learning and teaching points for the general audience, with the same audience response system in use.
“This is the first time that there is a dedicated focus on pediatric cases for the Thieves Market, and this makes it really exciting,” Dr. Shenoi said. “Come with an open mind to learn about unique cases specific to pediatric rheumatology.”
Both sessions will have related poster presentation sessions. These sessions feature the best sessions that just missed being selected for the oral presentations. Both the adult and pediatric poster presentations take place in Hall B5, Building B, from 9:00 – 11:00 am on Monday and Tuesday morning.