Co-Chairs: Chet Oddis (USA); Annet Royen-Kerkhof (the Netherlands)

Therapeutic Targeting of Immunopathogenic Pathways in Myositis

Femke van Wijk (Utrecht University, Netherlands) and David Fiorentino (Stanford, USA)

Geographic Differences in Treatment of MA-ILD: North American vs. Asian Perspective

North American Perspective

Erin Wilfong (Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center, USA)

Asian Perspective

Takahisa Gono (Nippon Medial School, Japan)

Advances in Exercise Therapy in Response to the Advances in Medical Management

Susan Maillard (Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK)

Selected Oral Presentations

O-7 Clustering Analysis of Immune Cell Subsets and Clinical Phenotypes in the Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

Yuhui Li (Peking University Health Science Center, China)

O-8 Thromboembolism Risk Associated with Intravenous Immune Globulin Use in Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy: A National Database Study

Didem Saygin (University of Pittsburgh, USA)