ORA Annual CME Physician Education Meetings
ORA holds two annual two-day Continuing Medical Education (CME) conferences each year; Winter, usually held during a weekend in mid-February in Downtown Portland, and Fall, previously held near Gleneden Beach on the Oregon coast during mid-September.
At ORA, we pride ourselves on providing cutting-edge edge lectures and demonstrations on the state- of-the-art in rheumatology issues, treatments, and technology. Previous speakers and topics have included:
- Lee Simon, MD "The Ins & Outs of the FDA," and "Lupus: A Clinician's Perspective"
- John Esdaile, MD "Cost Effectiveness for Clinicians: What You Need to Know," and "Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis: The Second Most Common Rheumatic Disease"
- Bryan Johnston, JD "The Art of Negotiation"
- Muhammad Asim Khan, MD "Dramatic Advances in the Management of Ankylosing Spondylitis and Related Spondyloarthropathies"
- John Looney, MD "B Cells as Therapeutic Targets for Rheumatic Diseases"
- Antonio Bouffard, MD "Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography"
- Richard Wakefield, MRCP (UK) "Imaging Techniques in Rheumatoid Arthritis"
- Daniel Furst, MD "Stem Cell Transplantation in Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease: to do or not to do?"
- Matthew Liang, MD "Systemic Lupus and Atherosclerosis: A Perspective"