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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Friday, April 24, 2026
  • 1:00 PM - 1:10 PM CT
    FIT Opening Remarks
  • 1:00 PM - 5:15 PM CT
    FIT@SOTA Committee
    FIT Faculty: Alana Haussmann, MD (she/her/hers) – University of California Los Angeles
    FIT Faculty: James Fagerland, MD – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    FIT Faculty: Haeja Kessler, MD (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital
    FIT Faculty: Raisa Lomanto Silva, MD (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts General Hospital
    FIT Faculty: Appledene Osbourne – UCSF
    FIT Faculty: Chrisana Pokorny, MD – University of Rochester
    FIT Faculty: Lily Sung, MD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University Hospital & Clinics
    FIT Faculty: Jeffrey Yang, MD – Mayo Clinic
    FIT Faculty: Eric Wilson, MD (he/him/his) – Northwestern Memorial Hospital
    FIT Faculty: Clara Liu
  • 1:10 PM - 2:10 PM CT
    FIT Career Panel - Academic Rheumatology
    FIT Faculty: Heather Bukiri, MD – UCLA
  • 1:10 PM - 2:10 PM CT
    FIT Career Panel - Early Research Career
    FIT Faculty: Didem Saygin, MD – Rush University Medical Center
  • 1:10 PM - 2:10 PM CT
    FIT Career Panel - Industry Representative
    FIT Faculty: Alvina Chu, MD – AbbVie
  • 1:10 PM - 2:10 PM CT
    FIT Career Panel - Med-Ed in Rheumatology
    FIT Faculty: Anisha Dua, MD, MPH – Northwestern University
  • 1:10 PM - 2:10 PM CT
    FIT Career Panel - Private Practice
    FIT Faculty: Amanda Myers, MD – Government Affairs Committee Chair
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    Contract Negotiations
    FIT Facilitator: Melinda Malecki, MS, JD – Malecki Brooks Ford Law Group, LLC
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Becoming a Clinician Educator & Scholar
    FIT Facilitator: Anisha Dua, MD, MPH – Northwestern University
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Calcinosis in Myositis
    FIT Facilitator: Christine Hsieh, MD – Northwestern Medicine
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - CNS Vasculitis
    FIT Facilitator: Brian Jaros, MD – Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Health Disparities in the Clinical Encounter
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Management of Scleroderma Gut
    FIT Facilitator: Zsuzsanna McMahan, MD, MHS – UT Health Houston
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Managing the Pregnant SLE Patient
    FIT Facilitator: Mary Mahieu, MD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Myositis: Ask the Expert
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Pulmonary HTN for the Rhuematologist
    FIT Facilitator: Stephen Mathai, MD, MHS – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Rheumatic IRAEs
    FIT Facilitator: Laura Arneson, MD (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Sarcoid: Multisystem Management
    FIT Facilitator: Arthur Yee, MD,PhD – Hospital for Special Surgery
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Scleroderma Mimics
    FIT Facilitator: Heather Bukiri, MD – UCLA
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - SLE Nephritis: Guidelines Update
    FIT Facilitator: Meenakshi Jolly, MD – Rush University
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Tapering of Biologics
    FIT Facilitator: James ODell, MD – University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Tick Borne Illness: Ask the Expert
    FIT Facilitator: Cassandra Calabrese, DO – Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Use of VNS in the Management of RA
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - Vasculitis Treatment Options
    FIT Facilitator: Alexandra Villa-Forte, MD, MPH, FACP – Cleveland Clinic
  • 3:45 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    FIT Roundtable - What's New in Pediatric Rheumatology
    FIT Facilitator: Sangeeta Sule, MD, PhD – Children's National Hospital