• Introduction and Background
• Anatomy & Demonstration of Anatomy

Exhibition Opens - Tea/Coffee

Primary Care – Management of the Foot and Ankle

• Soft Tissues Disorders Affecting the Foot and Ankle
• Small Group Work: Examination

Science – A Biology of Lupus

• Genetics - How to study the genome and identify the really bad genes in lupus
• Apoptosis - defects and deficiencies
• Fc receptors and their role in lupus
• Is Interferon alpha the key cytokine in lupus?

BSR: The Liver and Rheumatic Disease

This session will deal with the involvement of the liver in autoimmune and rheumatic disease and the hepatic complicationswhich arise during their treatment

• Imaging the Foot and Ankle
• Surgical Options
• Small Group Work: Taping/Insoles/Injections

Science – A Biology of Lupus

B cell abnormalities

• Lessons from experimental models
• B regs – the facts!
• B cell activating factors – block and benefit?
• B cells in SLE – a suitable case for treatment?

BSR: Advances in Joint Replacement Surgery

• How to run a combined Orthopaedic/Rheumatology Service
• Rheumatoid Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow
• When to operate on the Rheumatoid neck
• Lower limb surgery in RA

BSR: Managing back pain: where do we go from here? An epidemiological and intervention perspective

• Back pain: an epidemiological update on risk factors for onset and outcome  
• Management: what works and what doesn't  
• Challenges in improving outcome for patients

Tea/Coffee

• Sports Injuries
• Summary and Close

Science – A Biology of Lupus

Tcell abnormalities

• Tcell Abnormalities and the Role of Tregs
• Responses to Tcell Peptides – towards a New Therapeutic Approach

Concurrent Oral presentations of Abstracts x 5

• An overview of recent developments in the pathogenesis and treatment of the APS
• Mechanisms of thrombosis
• Mechanisms of Pregnancy Morbidity
• New targeted therapies
• Controversies in current management

BSR: Predicting Prognosis and Treatment Response in OA

• Epidemiology of Progression in Osteoarthritis
• Animal Models of Progressions
• Progression in Clinical Trials
• Response to Therapy

Droitwich Lecture

What is hidden in the shoes? How to find your RA patients' real clinical CV.

BHPR: Pursuing a Clinical research Career

• Attractions of a Clinical Research Career and How to Get Started
• Is there Life Outside Work? Undertaking a Higher Degree While in Clinical Practice
• Developing your Clinical Research Career – Fellowships and Other Routes
• Creating a Team and a Programme of Clinical Research

• Joint Aspiration and Injection
• NICE RA Management Guidelines

Management of Behcet's Disease

• Viral Vascuitis
• Takayasu Arteritis
• When is Vasculitis not Vasculitis

BSR & BHPR Joint Session: Health and Work

• Dame Carol Black's Review and Response to Parliaments Reaction
• Vocational Rehabilitation: What Works, for Whom, and When?

BSR: Genetics of Common Rheumatic Disease

This session will provide an update on the recent major advances in the current understanding of the genetic basis of common rheumatic diseases from internationally regarded experts in the field of genetics and genetic epidemiology.  Attention will be focused on the future of genetic research in the UK and how genetic discovery will permeate into clinical practice

BHPR: Psycho-Social Issues from Childhood through Adult Life

• JIA and Family Function: Implications for Transitional Care
• Coping with Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Sore Feet, Sore Face
• Sexual Problems – The Patients Perspective
• The Impact of Psychosocial Influences on Quality of Life in Osteoarthritis
• The Impact of Ankylosing Spondylitis on Work in the UK

BSR: Biomedical Research Networks – The Canadian Experience

Introduction and Welcome

• Brief History, Goals, Structure of CAN
• Consumer Involvement in CAN and the Networks
• CAN's Clinical Research Teams
• CAN's Basic Science Teams
• Open Forum: Are there Lessons from Canada ?

BHPR: Partnerships in Foot Healthcare

• Medical and Non Medical Management of Foot Problems in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis
• Medical and Non Medical Management of Foot Problems in Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
• Foot and Ankle Triage Service – How the Barriers were Broken
• 12.30-14.30 A Multidisciplinary Ultrasound Guided Joint Injection Clinic

• Educating the Patient – Disease Specific , Self Management, Self Care?
• Working with the Expert Patient Programme – Disease Specific Model
• The Lay Perspective – Token Gesture or Real Involvement?

BHPR: Writing for Publication

• How to get an Article Published – the Editors Perspective
• How to Write a Qualitative Article
• How to get Quantitative Research Published
• How to Write a Confernece Abstract

Concurrent Orals x 6
BHPR Plenary Concurrent Oral

Nanotechnology in Medicine
Prof Richard Jones

BHPR: Research Issues & Prize Giving

• Keynote Presentation
• Prize Giving
• arc Silver Medal Presentation & NRAS Presentation

• The advantages of NICE rheumatology guidelines and techology appraisals
• The disadvantages of NICE rheumatology guidelines and technology appraisals
• How can NICE and the BSR work better together?
• Discussion

BSR: Management of Unusual Bone Disease

• Skeletal Development
• Radiographic Approach to Classification of the Skeletal Dysplasias
• Unusual Bone Diseases

BHPR: Qualitative Studies of Self Management in Osteoarthritis

• Providing Information to Support Self-Management of OA
• Decision Making by People with Knee OA about Self Management of Their Pain and Disability
• Wellness and Resilience in Older People with OA

BSR: New Immunosuppressants

• Mycophenolate mofetil in the treatment of SLE
• Leflunomide and Deoxyspergualin in the treatment of vasculitis
• The role of methotrexate in the management of vasculitis

BHPR: Clinical Update on Spondyloarthropathies

• AS
• PsA

• I'm Too Young to Have That in my House
• Inclusive Design: Designing People In
• Made for Walking, But Not for Wearing

BSR: Setting up a Fracture Liaison Service
BSR: Psoriasis and the Scoring Systems