
The IMID Forum
Keeping you up to date with the latest and most important updates in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.
Latest episodes

Aug 12, 2024 • 9min
Discussing RA: March 2024
Join Professor Iain McInnes for the latest episode on The Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease Forum, where he discusses the latest information and data in rheumatology. In this episode, he discusses two papers that that add to the knowledge of common treatments relating to RA. In our first paper, Juergen Rech and colleagues present the results of the ARIAA study, which shows that abatacept inhibits inflammation symptoms and progression to RA in high-risk patients. Our second paper is from Juergen Rech and colleagues, where they present the results of the ARIAA study which investigated whether abatacept inhibits inflammation symptoms and progression to RA in high-risk patients. To access detailed summary slides for the papers discussed today, visit imidforum.com.

Aug 12, 2024 • 22min
Discussing AxSpA: Upadacitinib in nr-axSpA and certolizumab pegol by baseline MRI and CRP status
Join Professors Hideto Kameda and Xenofon Baraliakos for insights on upadacitinib in nr-axSpA and certolizumab pegol treatment. Topics include results from a phase 3 trial, analysis of upadacitinib treatment, longer-term safety analysis, clinical outcomes of certolizumab pegol, and response rates based on MRI and CRP status in nr-axSpA patients.

Aug 12, 2024 • 32min
Discussing PsA: Clinical Response to Guselkumab & Sequential Lines of b/tsDMARDs
Join Professors Peter Nash, Philip Mease, and Laura Coates as they discuss the top publications in the world of PsA. They discuss two highly relevant topics in the field, including the clinical response to guselkumab and the research surrounding sequential lines of b/tsDMARDs.

Aug 12, 2024 • 38min
Discussing PsA: Long-term safety of ixekizumab & bimekizumab treatment in a TNFi-IR population
Join Professors Peter Nash, Philip Mease, Frank Behrens, and Laura Coates as they discuss the top publications in the world of PsA. They discuss two highly relevant topics in the field, including the long-term safety of ixekizumab as well as bimekizumab treatment in a TNFi-IR population.

Aug 12, 2024 • 25min
Discussing AxSpA: Long-Term Outcomes of Secukinumab & JAKis in Clinical Practice
Join us for the latest axSpA podcast brought to you by the Immune-mediated Inflammatory Disease forum! This month Dr Sofia Ramiro is joined by Professors Hideto Kameda and Xenofon Baraliakos to discuss the long-term impact of secukinumab treatment on bone-related outcomes and BTMs in r-AxSpA patients over two years. Our faculty then move on to discuss another publication, which presents JAKi treatment recommendations for IMIDs from a two-round modified RAM study with 21 subject matter experts.

Aug 12, 2024 • 26min
Discussing AxSpA: Bimekizumab in AxSpA & Secukinumab Patient Clustering
Join us for the latest axSpA podcast brought to you by the CSF! This month Dr Sofia Ramiro, consultant rheumatologist and senior researcher at Leiden University Medical Centre and Zuyderland Medical Centre, is joined once again by experts with a wealth of clinical knowledge. Joining her is Hideto Kameda, Professor of Internal Medicine at Toho University as well as Atul Deodhar, Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of Rheumatology Clinics in the Division of Arthritis & Rheumatic Diseases at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, USA. Also joining this insightful group is Xenofon Baraliakos, Professor of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, and Medical Director of the rheumatology centre Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet in Herne, Germany
In the first paper discussed, the authors compared the efficacy and safety of bimekizumab with biologic/targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in nr-axSpA and AS. Our second paper then goes on to identify distinct clinical clusters based on patient demographics and baseline clinical indicators from the clinical development programme of secukinumab in patients with a variety of rheumatological conditions.

Aug 12, 2024 • 10min
Discussing RA: January 2024
Join Professor Iain McInnes for the first episode on The Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease Forum, where he discusses the latest information and data in rheumatology.
In this episode, he discusses two papers that aimed to advise on treatment of rheumatic diseases in a real-world setting. In our first paper, Emma Dures and her colleagues compiled the 2023 EULAR recommendations for the management of fatigue in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. Our second paper is from Kehinde Sunmboye and his colleagues, where they investigated the incidence of MACE in a multi-ethnic population that were treated with JAK inhibitors.
To access detailed summary slides for the papers discussed today, visit imidforum.com.

Aug 12, 2024 • 31min
Discussing PsA: Secukinumab & The Effect of Sex on the Long-Term Persistence of Targeted Therapies
Join Professors Peter Nash, Philip Mease, Frank Behrens, and Laura Coates as they discuss the top publications in the world of PsA. They discuss two highly relevant topics in the field, namely the effect of sex on the long-term persistence of targeted therapies, as well as the impact of secukinumab on synovitis and enthesitis.

Aug 12, 2024 • 34min
IMID Author Interview: Dr Blanca Hernández-Cruz, 2024
Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Blanca Hernández-Cruz, a rheumatologist at Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville, as they discuss her recent paper ‘Janus kinase inhibitors and tumour necrosis factor inhibitors show a favourable safety profile and similar persistence in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and spondyloarthritis: real-world data from the BIOBADASER registry’.

Aug 12, 2024 • 30min
Discussing PsA: Bimekizumab therapy in PsA
Join Professors Peter Nash, Philip Mease, and Laura Coates as they discuss the top publications in the world of PsA. This month, they focus on the latest publication by Su, et al. and discuss the latest in bimekizumab therapy in PsA.