Interventional Immunology

Tuesday, June 18, 2019
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Boston Marriott Copley Place
110 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02116

This course is held as a pre-FOCIS 2019 Annual Meeting course.

This course is intended to familiarize practicing physicians with the scientific basis of novel immune therapies, their clinical applications, and possible side-effects and limitations.

Target Audience

This course is designed to educate attendees on the wide variety of therapies that are currently available or in development. Many of these therapies are based on targets that are unfamiliar to most practicing physicians. Thus, a cross-disciplinary review of this topic is of keen interest to the scientific community.

Learning Objectives

After the course, attendees will be able to:

• Identify the scientific basis for choosing immunologically-related therapeutic targets in various diseases, including organ specific and systemic autoimmunity, allergy, transplant rejection, and cancer.

• Explain the rationale and mechanism underlying the major pharmacologic approaches for interventional immunology in current practice.

• Evaluate the track record of the different therapeutic approaches in different specialties.

• Recognize the cross-disciplinary lessons that can be learned from the clinical experience with specific interventions including pharmacological issues, limitations in altering disease progression and complications due to immunosuppression (infections, neoplasias).

• Analyze how a physician should decide to use and choose therapies.

Reviews

Read why past attendees enjoyed the course:

• “Attending this course has definitely sharpened my therapeutic skills as a clinical immunologist.”

• “This was an excellent overview of the basic science underpinning current immunological intervention.”

Sponsors

This course is provided by the following generous support of TBD.

Register Online

Registration for this course will open in fall 2018. Course registration may be added to FOCIS 2019 registration or purchased separately. Two course package rates are available.

Become a FOCIS member to access the lowest registration rate – one of many benefits of membership.

Registration Fees

Registration fees will be announced in fall 2018.

Attend two courses and receive a discounted package rate.

Registration fee includes course materials, name badge, certificate of participation, continental breakfast and lunch. Registration does not include a hotel room reservation.

Questions?

Contact us at 414-359-1670 or info@focisnet.org.

Course Directors

Course directors will be announced soon.

Faculty

Faculty will be announced soon.

Agenda

The agenda will be announced soon.

This course is held prior to the FOCIS 2019 Annual Meeting.

Boston Marriott Copley Place
110 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02116

Certificates of attendance are available upon request.

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

To enable all those involved in the research and treatment of immune-mediated diseases to participate in the exchange of ideas that contribute to the forward motion of the field, FOCIS will not offer CME credit for this activity.

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Course Materials

The online course features video recordings of course lectures and their accompanying slide deck.

Price

• Members – Free

• Non-members – $100

Become a FOCIS member to purchase the online course for free.