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CPD

Autoinflammatory vs Autoimmune: What Is the Difference?

  • Authors: Ronald F. van Vollenhoven, MD, PhD; Paul L.A. van Daele, MD, PhD
  • CPD Released: 5/27/2022
  • Valid for credit through: 5/27/2023
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Target Audience and Goal Statement

This educational activity is intended for a European audience of primary care physicians, rheumatologists, and pediatricians.

The goal of this activity is for learners to be better able to discuss the concept of autoinflammation, similarities and differences between autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases, signaling pathways of autoinflammatory syndromes, definition and classification, clinical phenotypes of commonly encountered autoinflammatory diseases, and the clinical approach to differentiate autoinflammation from autoimmunity.

Upon completion of this activity, participants will:

  • Have increased knowledge regarding the
    • Various forms of autoinflammatory diseases
    • Immunological basis of autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases
    • Clinical hallmarks of commonly encountered autoinflammatory diseases


Disclosures

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All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.


Faculty

  • Ronald F. van Vollenhoven, MD, PhD

    Professor of Rheumatology
    Amsterdam University Medical Centers
    Chief, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
    Director
    Amsterdam Rheumatology Center (ARC)
    Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Ronald F. van Vollenhoven, MD, PhD, has the following relevant financial relationships:
    Independent contractor for: AbbVie; AstraZeneca; Biogen; Biotest; Celgene; Galapagos; Gilead; Janssen; Pfizer; Sanofi; Servier; UCB
    Grants for clinical research from: Bristol-Myers Squibb; GlaxoSmithKline; Lilly; Pfizer; Roche; UCB
    Advisor or consultant for: AbbVie; AstraZeneca; Biogen; Biotest; Celgene; Galapagos; Gilead; Janssen; Pfizer; Sanofi; Servier; UCB
    Speaker or member of speakers bureau for: AbbVie; Galapagos; Janssen; Pfizer; UCB

  • Paul L.A. van Daele, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor in Allergy and Clinical Immunology
    Department of Internal Medicine
    Erasmus MC
    Rotterdam, the Netherlands

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Paul L.A. van Daele, MD, PhD, has no relevant financial relationships.

Editor

  • Alessia Piazza, PhD

    Medical Education Director, WebMD Global, LLC 

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Alessia Piazza, PhD, has no relevant financial relationships.  

Compliance Reviewer

  • Leigh Schmidt, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CNE, CHCP

    Associate Director, Accreditation and Compliance

    Disclosures

    Disclosure: Leigh Schmidt, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CNE, CHCP, has no relevant financial relationships.


Accreditation Statements

    For Physicians

  • The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (FPM) has reviewed and approved the content of this educational activity and allocated it 0.50 continuing professional development credits (CPD).

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CPD

Autoinflammatory vs Autoimmune: What Is the Difference?

Authors: Ronald F. van Vollenhoven, MD, PhD; Paul L.A. van Daele, MD, PhDFaculty and Disclosures

CPD Released: 5/27/2022

Valid for credit through: 5/27/2023

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