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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Basic Science

Ebbs and Flow: Endothelial Alterations in Systemic Sclerosis

Sunday, October 26, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Central Time
CE: 1

    Moderator(s)

  • Francesco Boin, MD

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Beverly Hills, CA, United States

    Disclosure(s): Boehringer-Ingelheim: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Terminated, June 13, 2025)

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • Monica Yang, MD

    UCSF
    San Francisco, CA, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

    • Moderator(s)

  • ZM

    Zsuzsanna McMahan, MD, MHS

    UT Health Houston
    Houston, TX, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

Vasculopathy is considered a central feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc), meaning it is one of the primary pathological processes driving the disease. This session will discuss new insights into mechanisms contributing to vasculopathy in SSc.

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize the central role of vasculopathy in SSc
  • Demonstrate how endoMT and endothelial senensence contributes to fibrosis in SSc
  • Evaluate how dysregulated angiogenesis contributes to SSc-PAH

Presentations:

  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Central Time
    Senescence and the Scleroderma Vasculature: A New Lens on Disease Mechanisms

    Speaker: Eliza Pei-Suen Tsou, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Central Time
    Dysregulated Angiogenesis in Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension

    Speaker: Benjamin Korman, MD – University of Rochester