TIME/ROOM / TOPIC / PRESENTERS
5:00 – 9:00 pm
Rosseau Ballroom Foyer / Exhibits / Sponsors
6:30 – 9:30 pm
Rosseau Ballroom / Welcome Buffet Dinner
7:30 – 9:00 pm
Port Carling A/B / Poster Tour & Viewing
Saturday, May 28
TIME/ROOM / TOPIC / PRESENTERS
6:00 – 9:30 am
Cottages Restaurant / Breakfast
8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Rosseau Ballroom Foyer / Exhibits / Sponsors
7:00 –8:00 am
Rosseau Ballroom / Breakfast Symposium
8:05 – 8:10 am
Rosseau Ballroom / Opening Remarks / Dr. Art Karasik
8:10 – 8:55 am
Rosseau Ballroom / Pharmacare Update / Suzanne McGurn
Assistant Deputy Minister and Executive Officer, Ontario Public Drug Programs
8:55 – 9:55 am
Rosseau Ballroom / Annual Updates
Theme: Best Practices of Today and Tomorrow
- Topic 1: NigilHaroon –Tomorrow’s Treatment of Seronegative Arthritis
- Topic 2: Gout & Crystal Arthritis
- Topic 3: Risk of Chloroquine Toxicity
Puja Khanna
Alain Proulx
9:55 – 10:55 am
Rosseau Ballroom / Plenary: RA of Today & Tomorrow / Roy Fleischmann
10:55 – 11:10 am / Health Break(room transfers) / Coffee Break (in upper/lower level foyers)
11:10 am – 12:10 pm
Rosseau 1
Rosseau 2
Windermere
Minett
Rosseau 3-5
Port Sandfield / Workshops
- Workshop 1: Meet the Professor
- Workshop 2: GCA Ocular Pearls
- Workshop 3: Myositis Update
- Workshop 4: Medical Marijuana and Pain Rx
- Workshop 5: Ask your Pharmacist
- Workshop 6: Systemic Sclerosis Update
Alain Proulx
PariBasharat
Caroline McCallum
Caroline Whiskin
Dinesh Khanna
12:10 – 2:00 pm
Cottages Restaurant / Lunch
1:15 pm
Resort Main Entrance / The Arthritis Society “Walk to Fight Arthritis”
2:00 – 6:15 pm / Free Afternoon/Scheduled Activities*
*(Wine Tasting, Culinary Demonstration, Photography Workshop, Reptile Display)
6:15 – 7:00 pm
Bala / Industry Meeting / ORA Executive, Board & Industry members ONLY
6:30 – 12:00 am
Rosseau Ballroom Foyer / Reception, Dinner, Awards, Entertainment
Sunday May 29
TIME/ROOM / TOPIC / PRESENTERS
6:00 – 9:30 am
Cottages Restaurant / Breakfast
8:00 am – 12:30 pm
Rosseau Ballroom Foyer / Exhibits / Sponsors
8:25 – 9:15 am
Rosseau Ballroom / Business Meeting(ORA MEMBERS ONLY)
- (Rheumatologists ONLY)
9:15 – 9:20 am
Rosseau Ballroom / Opening Remarks / Dr. Art Karasik
9:25 – 10:00 am
Rosseau Ballroom / Plenary Sessions
Theme: Best Practices of Today and Tomorrow
- Topic 1: Comorbiditiesin Rheumatology
- Topic 2: Dermatology Update
Dr. Melinda Gooderham
10:00 – 10:15 am / Health Break (room transfers) / Coffee Break (in upper/lower level foyers)
10:15 – 11:15 am / Workshops
- Workshop 1: Cardiology 101 for Rheums
- Workshop 2: Derm 101 for Rheums
- Workshop 3:Attracting Rheums of Tomorrow
- Workshop 4: Rheumatology Care Redesigned-Provincial Challenges, Local Solutions
- Workshop 5: Treatment or RA – Nutraceuticals & Physical Therapy
- Workshop 6:Radiology for Rheums
Melinda Gooderham
Alf Cividino
VandanaAhulwalia
Rob Petrella
John O’Neill
11:15 – 11:30 am / Room Transfers
11:30 am – 12:30 pm / Thieves Market
- Topic 1: Difficult RA
- Topic 2: Seronegative
- Topic 3: Vasculitis
- Topic 4: Connective Tissue Disease
- Topic 5: Potpourri
12:30 pm
Cottages Restaurant / Lunch & Departures