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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Division of Rheumatology invite you to attend an all-day symposium honoring

Richard M. Pope, MD
Solovy/Arthritis Research Society Professor and professor of rheumatology
for his 27 years of service as chief of the Division of Rheumatology.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016
9:15 a.m. Symposium
4:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception

Register online at http://tinyurl.com/richardpope
or call Sally Hernandez at 312-503-1754.

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World leaders in rheumatology will speak about the research and influence of Dr. Richard Pope.

9:15 a.m . Welcome
Harris R. Perlman, PhD
Chief, Division of Rheumatology
Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Rheumatology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
Lewis Landsberg, MD
Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Professor, Endocrinology
Director, Northwestern University Comprehensive Center on Obesity
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

10:00 a.m. TNF Cytokines & Cell Death: Bedside to Bench and Back
Richard Siegel, MD, PhD
Chief, Immunoregulation Section, Autoimmunity Branch
Clinical Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
National Institutes of Health

10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

11:15 a.m. Development and Functions of Macrophages
Frederic Geissmann, MD, PhD
William E. Snee Chair of Immunology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Shifting Paradigms: Forty Years of Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Eric M. Ruderman, MD
Clinical Practice Director, Division of Rheumatology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

1:45 p.m. Insights into the Role of Genetics in Rheumatoid Arthritis
S. Louis Bridges Jr., MD, PhD
Anna Lois Waters Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

2:30 p.m. Coffee Break

3:00 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Targeting Fibroblast-Mediated Pathology in
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibrosis and Diabetes
Michael B. Brenner, MD
Theodore B. Bayles Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy
Brigham and Women's Hospital