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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Leadership

Philip Hench Memorial Lecture

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time

    Session Coordinator(s)

  • Gregory Gardner, MD

    University of Washington
    Anacortes, WA, United States

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The Hench Memorial Lecture honors a trailblazer in therapeutics for rheumatic diseases. This year’s lecture will be given by Dr John Stone, a trailblazer in his own right in many areas of rheumatology and especially in IgG4RD. He will update the IgG4RD story including newer therapies for this enigmatic illness. Sure to be one of the outstanding sessions of Convergence 2025.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss with a colleague the immunopathogenesis of IgG4-RD
  • Review with a colleague the clinical manifestations of IgG4-RD
  • Discuss with a colleague or a patient the most recent information on the treatment of IgG4-RD and monitoring the response to therapy

Presentations:

  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time
    IgG4-Related Disease: From Bedside to Bench and Back to Bedside

    Speaker: John Stone, MD,MPH – Massachusetts General Hospital , Harvard Medical School