*This is the 30th Annual Conference of Indian Rheumatology Association,PGIMER, Chandigarh,27th to 30 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
IRACON2014
The 30th Annual Conference of Indian Rheumatology association will be held at PGIMER, Chandigarh from 27th to 30th November,2014. A galaxy of International and national faculty members have been invited. The prominent international faculty who have already confirmed the participation are Prof WL Gross(Germany), Prof Loic Guillevin(Chief French vasculitis group), Prof David Jayne(Cambridge, UK,Coor
28/04/2022
Celebrating April month as National Rheumatological Disease Awareness (NRDA) month an initiative by Indian Rheumatological Association (IRA). With the vision to know what are the Rheumatological disorders and how one can treat it by reaching at right time to their nearest Rheumatologist.
Click to know more:- https://www.indianrheumatology.org/
happy to share that there has been an unprecedented response to the abstract submission of 224 abstracts, almost double of last time.
Thank you guys.
looking forward to welcoming you at PGIMER Chandigarh.
has been an excellent response to ' Up against the wall- my most challenging case also'
12/06/2014
Meet the IRACON International Faculty
Prof Peter Taylor.
Awarded a “Healthcare Champions Prize” in the Houses of Parliament in May 2008.
He is Norman Collisson Chair of Musculoskeletal Science at the University of Oxford, based within the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences and leading clinical trials research.
Professor Taylor’s specialist clinical interests are in rheumatoid arthritis and early inflammatory arthritis.
He has been a principal investigator in numerous international clinical trials of biologic therapies including the earliest seminal trails of anti-TNF and anti-IL-6 receptor therapy.http://www.iracon2014.org/images/faculty_int/peter_c_taylor.jpg
11/06/2014
Meet the faculty
Prof David Jayne,
Department of Medicine
University of Cambridge
Addenbooke's Hospital
Hills Road
Cambridge
Coordinator EUVAS Trials gp.
For the rheumatologists he needs no introduction but for those of you who don't know
Main/Senior author of major landmark vasculitis trials
namely
Cycazeram(NEJM 2003) AZA in maintenance of AAV
Anti tnf (J Am Soc Nephrol. 2004)
HCV Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis (Nephrol Dial Transplant 2005)
Mepex trial ( J Am Soc Nephrol. 2007) Plasmapheresis in AAV
RITUXIVAS(N Engl J Med. 2010) RTX in AA renal vasculitis
MMF vs AZA in remission maitainence in AAV (Arthritis Rheum. 2012)
.http://www.iracon2014.org/images/faculty_int/Dr_David_Jayne.jpg
Dear Friends!
Thank you for your response to the registration,workshops,meet the professor sessions and Up against the wall- my most challenging case.
For those of you, who are still waiting please send the Challenging case.
Please sen your abstracts also.
Those of you who have not registered as yet, avail the subsidized rates of registration.
We are eagerly waiting to welcome you.
Team IRACON
Meet the Professor Sessions
1) Prof Loic Guillevin, Chief French Vasculitis group
2) Prof Peter Taylor,Kennedy Institute, Oxford University, UK
Limited seats. Attendance only by prior registration. Registration is free but mandatory.
To confirm registration for meet the professor session by sending an email on [email protected]
Up against the wall: My most challenging case.
Send us the most challenging case which made u feel that u were up against the wall. This should be a once in a lifetime case.
Please note that rarity of a presentation is not a difficult case.
send it at [email protected]
write in the subject area- Up against the wall- my most challenging case.
GO FOR IT. PLATFORM PRESENTATION AND AN AWARD AWAITS YOU
16/05/2014
10/05/2014
Happy to share with everyone that Punjab Medical Council has granted 4 credit points for the pre conference CME and 10 points for the conference.
Slots for the workshops are quickly getting filled up. Hurry up to avoid the disappointment.
Send it your abstracts at [email protected]
visit www.iracon2014.org
Welcome to IRACON 2014 IRACON 2014 - 30th Annual Conference of Indian Rheumatology Association
04/04/2014
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION
The abstracts should be sent by an email to [email protected] . Please note that the abstract should be embedded in the body of the email and not sent as a separate attachment like a doc file.In the subject of the email, please write ABSTRACT- Your Surname- topic(e.g. ABSTRACT- HANDA- RA). The list of subjects would be as below
RA, SLE, SJOGREN’S SYNDROME, SCLERODERMA, VASCULITIS, MYOSITIS, OA, INFECTIONS, MISC ( INCLUDING OTHER AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES)
The abstract should be as per the format below:
The word limit should be 250 words (Excluding the Title and Authors name and affiliations, platform/poster and consideration for award. Only the presenting author with age of less than 40 years on the first day of conference will be considered for the award). The authors must indicate whether they want to be considered for award or not.You would be sent a confirmatory email within 48 hrs of the receipt of the abstract. In case you don’t get a confirmatory email, please get in touch with conference secretariat.
Please note that it is mandatory for the presenting author to register for the conference. In the unforeseen circumstance of the inability of the presenting author to attend the conference, any of the co- authors can present the paper after registering for the conference.
Format of abstract
Title.
Authors with affiliation(Please underline the presenting author)
Platform/Poster
Introduction-
Methods-(Please avoid any identifiers like Institution Names)
Results
Conclusions
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Hurry up guy's. Last three days for the early bird registration