Tune into our latest webinar which explores the diagnosis and day-to-day management strategies of giant cell arteritis (GCA).
Expert in the field Qasim Akram, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, UK, presents this webinar and uses case studies to share advice regarding GCA.
Themes covered include:
- What is GCA?
- The importance of early diagnosis.
- How to diagnose GCA and what role does ultrasound play?
- Day-to-day examples in a Fast Track Clinic using ultrasound and probability scoring.
Speaker:
Qasim Akram is a Consultant Rheumatologist and General Physician based in Manchester, UK. His subspecialist interests are musculoskeletal ultrasound, early inflammatory arthritis, and GCA/large vessel vasculitis. He currently leads the Stockport Early Inflammatory Arthritis Ultrasound Clinic and the Giant Cell Arteritis Fast Track Pathway.
He is a European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Ultrasound Instructor and teaches at a local, regional, and national level. He is the Founder and Director of the ‘Rheumatology Ultrasound Course Manchester’, a lead instructor for the North West Rheumatology Ultrasound Network, and a British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) trainer.
His main clinical research interests are focused on the use of ultrasound in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis/spondyloarthropathies, crystal arthritis, and GCA/large vessel vasculitis.
Acknowledgements
The speaker would like to acknowledge João Carreira and Victoria Burgess, Stockport Foundation Trust, for their valuable support in this project.
