Dear urticaria treating physicians,
We cordially invite you to join the following UCARE LevelUp activities (detailed information attached and below):
Please join us for the UCARE LevelUp Journal Club this Thursday, October 26, from 12:00 to 12:45 PM CEST!
Dr. Melike Merve Güçlü (Selçuk Uni/Konya/Turkey) will speak on:
“Novel biologics for treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria” – Casale, 2022, JACI
Please find the article attached.
Join the Journal Club by clicking here
If you would like to present an article (it should be a high impact paper that has been recently published) on urticaria or angioedema, or other mast cell-associated diseases and basic research on mast cell biology and their interaction with other cells, please get in touch with Julia Föll (julia...@ga2len.berlin) or Niklas Mahnke (niklas-ama...@charite.de).
See the rotation list here
Does your ACARE or UCARE Center also have a Journal Club that you would like to open to other physicians from the network? Please get in touch with Julia Föll (julia...@ga2len.berlin), we are happy to support you in this!
See you all on Thursday!
Best wishes,
The UCARE Office Team
8th webinar in our UCARE LevelUp Webinar series:
Topic: Urticaria: the mind and body interactions
Target audience: Every physician treating urticaria patients
When: November 15, 2023, 4:00-5:00 PM CET
Registration: Click here to register OR: use the “Click here for registration” button in the attached PDF
This webinar defines the association between mental disorders and psychological conditions. The audience will learn about the common psychological disorders and character traits/sleep disorders accompanying chronic urticaria and the effect of psychological interventions on disease activity.
Agenda:
Urticaria: the mind and body interactions
Emek Kocatürk Göncü Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkiye; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Allergology, Fraunhofer ITMP, Allergology and Immunology IA, Berlin, Germany
| Welcome and introduction (5 minutes) |
Anna Zalewska-Janowska Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
| Prevalence of psychological comorbidities and how to recognize them in CU patient (15 minutes) |
Ivan Cherrez Respiralab Research Center, Guayaquil, Ecuador
| Alexithymia and sleep disorders in CSU (15 minutes) |
Indrashis Podder College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata, India
| The effects of psychological treatments and interventions focused on wellbeing in urticaria (15 minutes) |
All | Q&A (10 minutes) |
9th webinar in our UCARE LevelUp Webinar series:
Topic: Recalcitrant Urticaria: what to do when guidelines fail?
Target audience: Every physician treating urticaria patients
When: January 23, 2024, 4:00-5:00 PM CET
Registration: Click here to register OR: use the “Click here for registration” button in the attached PDF
The global guidelines on urticaria are a marvelous document, but there are always exceptions: patients who do not fare well with the proposed therapies, new treatment options not yet covered by the GLs and when resources are a restriction to apply the GLs fully. This webinar addresses these three topics.
Agenda:
Recalcitrant Urticaria: what to do when guidelines fail?
Désirée Larenas-Linneman Center of Excellence in Asthma and Allergy Larenas S.C., Hospital Médica Sur, Mexico City, Mexico
| Welcome and introduction (5 minutes) |
Jorge Sanchez University of Antioquia, Medellin-Colombia Posgrado Alergología Universidad de Antioquia, Antioquia, Colombia
| Approach to patients who fail conventional therapy (15 minutes) |
David Khan The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
| Treatment option beyond guidelines (15 minutes) |
Kiran Godse D Y Patil Hospital, Mumbai, India
| Management of urticaria in resource limited setting (15 minutes) |
All | Q&A (10 minutes) |
With our best wishes,
The UCARE LevelUp Webinar Taskforce Team
Sponsored by:
Emilia Zimmermann
Team Assistant UCARE & ACARE Network
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