Due to the extensions of the Corona measures announced by the Swiss Federal Council, the meeting will take place as a Webinar.
endorsed by:
Center of Human Immunology Lausanne (CHIL)
Promote Interdisciplinarity and Learn from Each Other
After the great success of the meeting last year we are delighted to announce the 2nd Common Ground Meeting on Chronic Inflammation at the Swiss Tech Convention Center on January 28, 2021. This meeting aims at empowering rheumatologists, dermatologists, gastroenterologists, immunologists, nephrologist and pneumologists, internists, and other healthcare professionals to interact and learn from each other in order to advance the care of patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) such as psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, spondylarthritis, hepatitis, interstitial lung disorders, glomerulomephritis, ect.
- Discuss and identify common clinical problems and solutions as well as upcoming treatments
- Share knowledge and experience and foster interdisciplinarity
- Describe the relationship between the pathophysiology of immune-mediated chronic inflammatory diseases
- Understand future opportunities and challenges of precision medicine for immune mediated inflammatory diseases across disciplines
We are putting together an exciting program with lectures from leading experts, plenary sessions and enough time for networking and discussions.
We would be very delighted to seeing you at the face-to-face meeting in Lausanne. Nevertheless, if this might not be possible for you an online transmission will be provided to join the meeting.
Prof. Thomas Hügle
Division of Rheumatology
Prof. Michel Gilliet
Division of Dermatology
Prof. Darius Moradpour
Division of Gastroenterology
Program
(Jan 15, 2021)
09:30
Welcome
Thomas Hügle, Darius Moradpour and Michel Gilliet
Session 1: What’s new on chronic inflammatory conditions in your specialty?
Chairs: Hervé Bachelez, Paris I Camillo Ribi, Lausanne
09:30 – 10:00
Gastroenterology
Markus Neurath, Erlangen
10:00 – 10:30
Rheumatology
Oliver Distler, Zurich
10:30 – 11:00
Pneumology
Christophe von Garnier, Lausanne
Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:40
Dermatology
Alexander Navarini, Basel
11:40 – 12:10
Nephrology
Fadi Fakhouri, Lausanne
Lunch Break
Session 2: Hot topics
COVID-19: Basics and impact on patients with immune-mediated diseases
Chairs: Darius Moradpour I Jacob M. van Laar I Michel Gilliet
12:50 – 13:20
Evolution and dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Jan Dexler, Berlin
13:20 – 13:50
Controlling cytokine storms at the example of COVID-19
Peter Villiger, Bern
Understanding autoinflammatory diseases
13:50 – 14:20
Inflammasome, Interferopathies & Co
Michaël Hofer, Lausanne
The microbiome and its role in chronic inflammation
14:20 – 14:50
Mechanisms of host-microbial mutualism
Andrew J. Macpherson, Bern
Coffee Break
Session 3: Interdisciplinary cases
Chairs: Alain Schöpfer I Thomas Hügle I Patrick Omoumi I Curdin Conrad
15:00 – 15:30
Case 1: Ulcerative colitis, Sweet Syndrome & Arthralgia
Jonathan Kay, Worcester
15:30 – 16:00
Case 2: New onset
Psoriasis-Arthritis & Crohn
Sarah Kozycki, Lausanne
Conclusion
Invited Faculty
Meet our speakers & chairs
Prof. Oliver Distler
University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Biosketch
Oliver Distler is Professor of Rheumatology and Chairman of the Department of Rheumatology at the University of Zurich. He is also heading the Center of Experimental Rheumatology of the University of Zurich. The Department of Rheumatology has been awarded a EULAR Center of Excellence due to its scientific achievements. With over 300 primary research papers, over 21`000 citations and an HFactor of 73, he is among the top 3 cited researchers worldwide in the field of systemic sclerosis. His
research activities span from a preclinical program focusing on the characterization of key molecules and intracellular signaling cascades driving the disease process to a translational and clinical program with emphasis on precision medicine and phase 2/3 clinical trial design.
Prof. Peter Villiger
University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Christophe von Garnier
University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
Biosketch
Prof von Garnier is a pulmonologist and expert in severe obstructive pulmonary diseases, lung cancer and interventional bronchoscopy.
Prof von Garnier is the chairman of the Division of Respiratory Medicine and full professor at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV).
As president of the Swiss Society for Pulmonology, he has been involved in coordinating its response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and is involved in the care of individuals suffering from long-term complications of COVID-19. He has recently published on the management of asthma, COPD, and lung cancer during COVID-19, as well as on pulmonary embolism and respiratory sequelae in COVID-19 patients.
Prof. Jan Felix Drexler
Charité University Hospital Berlin, Germany
Dr. Alain Schöpfer
University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Michaël Hofer
University Hospital Lausanne , Switzerland
Prof. Hervé Bachelez
Saint-Louis University Hospital Paris, France
Biosketch
Professor Bachelez is professor at the Department of Dermatology of the Saint-Louis University Hospital in Paris, France. Since 2004, Professor Bachelez has been full professor of clinical dermatology at the Université Paris-Diderot/Université de Paris, where he received his Ph.D. in immunology in 1999. Professor Bachelez’s clinical and scientific research focuses on immunogenetics of inflammatory skin diseases at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) at the Imagine Institute in Necker Hospital. His areas of scientific interest include molecular mechanisms of psoriasis and psoriasis-related diseases, and other immune-mediated and inflammatory skin diseases. Professor Bachelez has received several scientific awards, including the Robert Degos award. He is a member of several national and international scientific societies, including the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology and the European Dermatology Forum (EDF). He is a board member of the International Psoriasis Council, and general secretary-Treasurer-elect of the European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR).
Professor Bachelez has published more than 230 manuscripts in peer-reviews journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Arthritis and Rheumatism as leading author.
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Prof. Fadi Fakhouri
University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Alexander Navarini
University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Dr. Conrad Curdin
University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Jonathan Kay
UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, USA
Prof. Andrew Macpherson
University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Biosketch
Andrew J. Macpherson is Professor of Medicine and Director of Gastroenterology at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. He studied Biochemistry and Medicine at Cambridge University and did his PhD on sugar-proton symport systems in the laboratory of Sir Hans Kornberg and Peter Henderson. His clinical medical studies and clinical speciality training in Gastroenterology were in Cambridge and London. The results (of control experiments) during a project in London on immune-mediated damage to intestinal epithelial cells focused his interest on the way in which the mucosal immune system responds to commensal intestinal microbes. In 1997 he moved to work with Rolf Zinkernagel at the Institute of Experimental Immunology in Zürich. Between 2004 and 2008 he was Farncombe Professor of Medicine and a Canada Research Chair holder at McMaster University in Hamilton.His work has shown that there are different pathways of induction of immunoglobulin (Ig)A in the intestinal mucosa by commensal intestinal microbes, with and without help from T cells. He has also shown a compartmentalisation between the mucosal and systemic Ig responses to commensals, since mucosal immune responses are driven locally in the mucosal compartment by dendritic cells that have sampled commensals at the epithelial surface. More recently his lab has developed methods of reversible colonisation of germ-free mice to allow intestinal colonisation with commensals and mucosal immune priming to be experimentally uncoupled, to address mucosal immune memory and the functional consequences of mucosal immune responses in host-microbial mutualism.
PD Dr. med. Camillo Ribi
University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Markus Neurath
University Hospital Erlangen, Germany
Prof. Jacob M. van Laar
University Medical Centre Utrecht, Netherlands
Biosketch
Jacob M. van Laar is Professor at the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands. After obtaining his MD and PhD degrees at Leiden University, he specialised in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology in Leiden University Medical Center and worked at the Department of Rheumatology as clinical academic in various roles from 1997-2007, interrupted by a postdoctoral research fellowship at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases in Bethesda, USA. From 2007 until 2013 he held a Chair in Clinical Rheumatology at Newcastle University, and post as honorary consultant rheumatologist at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK. He has been working as Professor of Rheumatology at UMC Utrecht since 1 November 2013. His main research interests involve clinical and pathogenetic aspects of systemic sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, aimed at improving the outcome of patients with rheumatic diseases by innovative clinical-translational research.
Dr. Patrick Omoumi
University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
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Impressions 2019
With 145 participants the first edition of the Common Ground Meeting was a great succes!
I appreciate the initianive of bringing different disciplines together – that definitly enables knowledge & experience sharing!
Excellent meeting en ce qui concerne les thèmes abordés et discussions sur potentielles collaborations!
A very exciting and unique meeting, where experts from different disciplines exchange their newest insights and discuss common pathways of different diseases. Highly inspiring.