APLAR Short Course on SpondyloArthritis (SpA)

Date: 4 October – 13 December 2025
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 (GMT+8)
Resgitration: here
Flyer: here

COURSE SCHEDULE:

4 October 2025
Hot Topics in Axial SpA – Pathogenesis and Novel Therapy?
• Personalized Medicine and Polygenic Risk Scores
• Microbiome and SpA
• Novel Therapy in Axspa
• Case Discussion

1 November 2025
Imaging (I) – non-MRI Imaging
• Basic Radiography (Axial/Peripheral)
• Advances of Nuclear Medicine Scanning Applicable to SpA/PET-CT
• US SI Joint and Intervention
• Case Discussion

15 November 2025
Psoriatic Arthritis
• Spectrum from pre-clinical PsA to Early D iagnosis
• Evolution of PsO to PsA: Is Disease Interception Possible?
• Is Structural Modification Possible in PsA?
• Case Discussion

29 November 2025
Improving the Management of PsA
• Delineating Different Mechanisms in PsA and Phenotype Clusters and
Treatment Response in PsA
• Comorbidities in SpA – Skin, Eye and Gut
• Case Discussion

6 December 2025
Hot Topics in Axial SpA – Management
• Insights from MRI on Biologic Modification in axSpA and Evidence for
Structural Modification in SpA Drug Trials
• 2024 ASAS-SPARTAN Recommendation and AI in Detection of Inflammatio
in MRI for SpA
• Case discussion

13 December 2025
Imaging (II) – MRI Workshop
• MRI workshop in Spondyloarthritis (Peripheral and Axial)
• Case Discussion