18 MARCH 2022
09:30 – 09:40 Opening Ceremony
  Dr. Kerim Güler / Turkish Society of Internal Medicine
Dr. Aleksandar Manolev / Macedonian Society of Internal Medicine
Ambassador Hasan Mehmet Sekizkök / Ambassador of Türkiye to North Macedonia
 
09:40 – 10:30 Session 1
Chairs: Biljana Koleva, Mimoza Nikolovska Kotevska, Sedat Kiraz 
09:40 – 10:05 Management of Diabetes in Rheumatological Diseases Kubilay Ükinç
10:05 – 10:30 Management of Hypertension in Rheumatological Diseases Biljana Koleva
10:30 10:45 COFFEE BREAK  
10:45 – 12:00 Session 2
Chairs: İhsan Ertenli, Snezana Percinkova Mishevska
10:45 – 11:10 What ACR Really Recommends with the 2021 RA Treatment Guideline in Contrast to 2019 EULAR Nilüfer Alpay Kanıtez
11:10 – 11:35 Can We Reach Comprehensive Disease Control in Rheumatoid Arthritis?  Abdulsamet Erden
11:35 – 12:00  Managing Extra-Articular Manifestations in Rheumatoid Arthritis Vedat Gerdan
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:05 Session 3
Chairs: Vedat Hamuryudan, Ljubinka Damjanovska Krstik
13:15 – 13:40 How Do Patients with Non‐Radiographic Axial Spondylarthritis Differ from Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis? Pamir Atagündüz
13:40 – 14:05 Atlanto-axial Subluxation As Problem In Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Snezana Percinkova Mishevska
14:05 – 15:20 Session 4
Chairs: Filip Guchev, Isık Atagunduz, Eftal Yucel
14:05 – 14:30 Safety Update for Biologics Zevcet Yılmaz
14:30 – 14:55 Treatment and Follow-up Approach to Pregnant Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: Update on Pregnancy, Lactation and Fertility Dilek Solmaz
14:55 – 15:20 Novel Antibodies in RA Ljubinka Damjanovska Krstik
15:20 – 15:40 COFFEE BREAK
15:40 – 16:05 Session 5
Chairs: Mimoza Nikolovska Kotevska, Timuçin Kaşifoğlu
15:40 – 16:05 Update on the Management of Colchicine Resistant Familial Mediterranean Fever Aysenur Pac Kısaarslan 
16:05 – 16:30 Prevention and Treatment of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis İlknur Aktaş
16:30 – 17:10 Session 6: Case Presentations I
Chair:Adem Kucuk
  – Treatment of Spondylitis Ankylosans with biologis, Sanja Petrova
– Significance of C-reactive Protein in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lindita Xhemaili Jakupi
– Jaw necrosis as adverse effect of Denosumab in patient with RA, Emilija Sandevska
– Efficacy of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition and weekly adalimumab combination in Crohn’s patients with fibroinflammatory stenosis, Salih Tokmak
– Ankylosing Spondylitis patient with Bilateral Optic Neuritis, Zeynel Abidin Akar
19 MARCH 2022
09:00 – 10:15 Session 7
Chairs: Bashkim Osmani, Ediz Dalkılıç
09:00 – 09:25 Pain and Consequences for SpA Patients Servet Akar
09:25 – 09:50 Emerging Therapies in Psoriatic Arthritis Cemal Bes
09:50 – 10:15 Musculosceletal US in Seronegative Arthropaties Bashkim Osmani
10:15 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 12:00 Session 8
Chairs: Dubravka Antova, Omer Kuru
10:30 – 10:55 COVID-19 Pandemia: Where we are now? Serhat Ünal
10:55 – 11:20 Are all JAK Inhibitors the Same in IBD? Nalan Gulsen Unal
11:20 – 11:45 Does Interleukin-23 (IL-23) Inhibitors Change the Course of Treatment in Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis? Yasemin Yalcinkaya 
11:45 – 12:10 When to Escalate and Taper the Biologics? Filip Guchev
12:10 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:30 Session 9
Chairs: Serdal Uğurlu, Dubravka Antova
13:15 – 13:40 How To Treat Vascular Involvement in Bechet’s Disease Haner Direskeneli
13:40 – 14:05 How to Treat Intestinal Manifestations of Bechet’s Disease Taylan Kav
14:05 – 14:30 Treatment of Bechet’s Disease Related Non-Infectious Uveitis Esra Kardes
14:30 – 15:45 Session 10
Chairs: Ayse Cefle, Hakan Erdem
14:30 – 14:55 Management of COVID 19 in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases Berkan Armagan
14:55 – 15:20 Risk of Tuberculosis Among Patients Using Biologic Therapies Berna Yurttas
15:20 – 15:45 Pharmacovigilance of Biopharmaceuticals in Rheumatic Diseases, Adverse Events, Evolution and Perspective Elena Perkova
15:45 – 16:10 COFFEE BREAK
16:10 – 17:25 Session 11
Chairs: Aleksandar Manolev, Figen Tarhan, Bashkim Osmani
16:10 – 16:35 Interdisciplinary Approach in mesenteric presentation of Vasculitis Aleksandar Manolev
16:35 – 16:50 Update in the Treatment of Takayasu Arteritis Fatma Alibaz Öner
16:50 – 17:15 Update on Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Emre Bilgin
17:15 – 18:25 Session 12: Case Presentations II
Chairs: Hakan Emmungil, Nesrin Şen
  – Takayasu areritis rapped into multi-symptomatic syndrome, Aleksandar Manolev
– Vasculitis pigmentosa chronica, Dejan Spasovski
– Familial Mediterranean Fever Erythematous Lesions On The Abdominal İnjection Sites With Anakinra, Yasemin Kara
– The prevalence of gastric precancerous lesions and helicobacter pylori, a singlecenter data, Fatih Eren
– Antisynthetase Syndrome, Vlatko Karanfilovski