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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Clinical

Strengthening Our Understanding of Less Common Forms of Inflammatory Myopathies

Monday, October 27, 2025
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Central Time

    Moderator(s)

  • Julie Paik, MD, MHS

    Johns Hopkins University
    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    Disclosure(s): ArgenX: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Priovant: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)

  • NH

    Nathaniel Harris, MD

    Duke University Medical Center
    Durham, North Carolina, United States

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

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • DF

    David Fernandez, MD, PhD

    Hospital for Special Surgery
    New York, New York, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

  • Julie Paik, MD, MHS

    Johns Hopkins University
    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    Disclosure(s): ArgenX: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Priovant: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)

This session will educate attendees as to how to differentiate and understand the unique presentations and therapeutic considerations in patients with lesser-known forms of myositis.

Learning Objectives:

  • Compare the different forms of lesser-known forms of myositis, such as immune mediated necrotizing myopathy and immune check-point inhibitor myositis
  • Examine sub-phenotypes of inclusion body myositis
  • Differentiate and understand the unique presentations and therapeutic considerations in patients with lesser-known forms of myositis

Presentations:

  • 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Central Time
    Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathies and Beyond

    Speaker: Andrew Mammen, MD, PhD – NIH

  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Central Time
    Case-Based Approaches to Inclusion Body Myositis

    Speaker: David Fernandez, MD, PhD – Hospital for Special Surgery