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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Clinical

The Emerging Adult with JIA: What Adult Rheumatologists Need to Know

Sunday, October 26, 2025
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Central Time

    Moderator(s)

  • Sarah Bayefsky, MD

    Hackensack University Medical Center
    New York, NY, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • Sarah Bayefsky, MD

    Hackensack University Medical Center
    New York, NY, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

    • Moderator(s)

  • AM

    Amanda Moyer, MD

    Stanford University currently but soon to be Oklahoma University (OU) Medicine and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF)
    Oklahoma City, OK, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

This session will highlight the important and unique aspects of caring for emerging adults with JIA from the perspectives of a young adult patient, a pediatric rheumatologist, and an adult rheumatologist. We will discuss the process of transition to adult care and evidence-based best practices in providing optimal care for patients before and after the transfer. We will highlight and discuss the medical needs of this patient population (e.g., JIA medications and birth control), and important considerations for disease characteristics particular to JIA (e.g., uveitis and TMJ involvement). We will also discuss the significant non-medical needs and concerns of this patient population, including education and support around at-risk behaviors (i.e., use of alcohol and drugs), mental-health issues, challenges associated with going to post-secondary school and/or moving away from home, and psychosocial stressors.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the unique clinical features of emerging adults with JIA, including uveitis screening and TMJ arthritis
  • Identify challenges associated with caring for and supporting young adults with pediatric-onset rheumatologic disease in the adult-care setting, including mental-health concerns and at-risk behaviors
  • Outline evidence-based strategies to support young adults with rheumatic diseases, incorporating patients' lived experiences

Presentations:

  • 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM Central Time
    Key Insights on Adult Rheumatologists' Management of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Patient's Perspective
  • 9:10 AM – 9:35 AM Central Time
    Key Insights on Adult Rheumatologists' Management of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Pediatric Rheumatologist's Perspective

    Speaker: Evelyn Rozenblyum, MD – St. Michael's Hospital

  • 9:35 AM – 10:00 AM Central Time
    Key Insights on Adult Rheumatologists' Management of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: An Adult Rheumatologist's Perspective

    Speaker: Natasha Gakhal, MD – WCH