The IMID Forum

Join Professor Iain McInnes for the latest episode on The Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease Forum, where he discusses the latest information and data in RA. In this episode, he discusses two papers related to the long-term safety of JAK inhibitors compared to TNF inhibitors. In our first paper, Christina Charles-Schoeman and colleagues assessed the risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with RA initiating tofacitinib or TNFi. Our second paper is from Roy Fleischmann and colleagues compare the long-term efficacy and safety data of upadacitinib switched from adalimumab and in adalimumab switched from upadacitinib. To access detailed summary slides for the papers discussed today, visit imidforum.com.

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Maria Antonietta D’Agostino, the Head of the Rheumatology Department at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, as they discuss her recent paper 'Effects of Secukinumab on Synovitis and Enthesitis in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: 52-week Clinical and Ultrasound Results from the Randomised, Double-blind ULTIMATE Trial with Open Label Extension'.

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Professor Dennis McGonagle, a Clinical Professor at the University of Leeds School of Medicine, as they discuss his recent paper ‘Association of the Clinical Components in the Distal Interphalangeal Joint Synovio-entheseal Complex and Subsequent Response to Ixekizumab or Adalimumab in Psoriatic Arthritis.’

Dr Jürgen Rech discusses inhibiting inflammation to prevent rheumatoid arthritis, early intervention strategies, efficacy of abatacept in delaying onset of RA, role of ACTPA antibodies, smoking as a risk factor, biomarkers, and treatment benefits lasting up to 24 months.

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Dr Mahta Mortezavi, a Clinical Director for Drug Discovery and Early Development as part of the Anti-infectives Research Unit at Pfizer, as they discuss her recent paper ‘Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity and adverse events in patients receiving tofacitinib or tumour necrosis factor inhibitors: a post hoc analysis of ORAL Surveillance.’

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, as well as Professors Andrew Cope, Professor of Rheumatology and Head of the Centre for Rheumatic Diseases at Kings College London, Professor Paul Emery, Clinical Professor and Director of the Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, and Professor John Isaacs, Professor of clinical immunology and Director of Newcastle Biomedicine Versus Arthritis Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre. Together they discuss the recent paper ‘Abatacept in individuals at high risk of rheumatoid arthritis (APIPPRA): a randomised, double-blind, multicentre, parallel, placebo-controlled, phase 2b clinical trial’, published in The Lancet on 13th February 2024.

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Dr Kehinde Sunmboye, a consultant rheumatologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, in this episode of the Author Interview series. Dr Sunmboye discusses his recent paper 'Cardiovascular safety of Janus Kinase inhibitor therapy in a multi-ethnic population' with Professor Nash in this exclusive interview.

Join Professor Andrea Rubbert-Roth, a doctor of rheumatology, as she discusses the incidence of malignancy in rheumatology patients, the impact of EMA guidance on Jack inhibitors prescribing in Switzerland, the use of UVA poova treatment, and the challenges of long-term immunosuppression after oncology treatment.

Join Professor Iain McInnes in this month's CSF Podcast, where he discusses the latest information and data in rheumatology. In this episode, he discusses two papers that compare the efficacy and safety of JAK inhibitors as RA therapies. In our first paper, Shinya Hayashi and his colleagues carried out a retrospective study to compare the efficacy of JAK inhibitors in treating RA. For our second paper, Christina Charles-Schoeman and her colleagues compared the incidence of MACE and VTE in RA and PsA patients treated with upadacitinib, adalimumab and MTX.

Join Philip Mease, Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of Rheumatology Research at the Swedish Medical Centre in Seattle, USA, and Laura Coates, an Associate Professor, NIHR clinician scientist and senior clinical research fellow at the Oxford Psoriatic Arthritis Centre, as they discuss two important topics from the world of contemporary PsA treatment. The first of the publications they will be reviewing sought to compare patient characteristics and efficacy and safety of advanced therapies between male and female patients with PsA participating in RCTs. They then go on to discuss a second publication describing malignancies in patients with a variety of rheumatic conditions treated with upadacitinib or active comparators.