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Workshops and Meetings (since 2008)
2015/03 Qualität und Zeit in der Medizin (mit Schwerpunkt seltene und chronische Erkrankungen)
internationales Seminar und Workshop des Vereins zur Förderung der Hämatologie, Onkologie und Immunologie
Organised by Michael Schirmer, MD, Assoc.Prof., Univ.Klinik für Innere Medizin VI, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck (michael.schirmer@i-med.ac.at, +43-(0)66473686936)
March 27-29, 2015 in Kühtai (Austria)
2014/06 EULAR-endorsed ÖGR-ultrasound course (intermediate level) in Innsbruck (sponsor: BMS)
2013/06 EULAR-endorsed ÖGR-ultrasound course (basic level) in Innsbruck (new sponsor: BMS)
2012/06 5th ÖGR-ultrasound course in Pörtschach (preliminary program attached at bottom of the site) (sponsor: Abbott)
MUI, Innsbruck
together with Backhaus M. (Berlin), Dejaco C. (Graz), Duftner C. (Kufstein), Hartung W. (Bad Abbach), Kainberger F. (Vienna), Kellner H. (Munich), Machold K. (Vienna), Schüller-Weidekamp C. (Vienna)
2012/01 Workshop: Giant cell arteritis and abdominal aortic aneurysm - common pathophysiological pathways
together with Prof. A.D. Wagner, MD, Hannover Medical School (MHH)
2011/10 Workshop for a European medical information framework
together with Hasler P. (Aarau), Holl R. (Ulm), Reinhard F. and T. (Luzern) and others
2011/06 4th ÖGR-ultrasound course in Pörtschach (sponsor: Abbott)
together with Backhaus M. (Berlin), Dejaco C. (Graz), Duftner C. (Kufstein), Hartung W. (Bad Abbach), Kainberger F. (Vienna), Kellner H. (Munich), Machold K. (Vienna), Schmidt W. (Berlin), Schüller-Weidekamp C. (Vienna)
2011/05 Dreiländertreffen "Enthesitis and chronic pain", an international cooperation
together with Rheumaklinik Bad Wildungen (Head: Bernhard Krohn-Grimberghe, MD) and Rheumatologische Klinik des Johanniter-Krankenhauses im Fläming, Treuenbrietzen (Head: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Ziegler)
2010/06 3rd ÖGR-ultrasound course in Pörtschach (sponsor: Abbott)
2009/06 2nd ÖGR-ultrasound course in Pörtschach (sponsor: Abbott)
2008/06 1st ÖGR-ultrasound course in Klagenfurt (sponsor: Abbott)
Research news
2013/11 manuscript on "NKG2D on pro-inflammatory T-cells from patients with giant cell arteritis" published in Annals of Rheumatic Diseases and awarded with the "Großer Wissenschaftspreis der ÖGR" to Dr. Duftner C, PhD
2013/02 early publication of the "The International Criteria for Behçet's Disease (ICBD): a collaborative study of 27 countries on the sensitivity and specificity of the new criteria" by the International Team for the Revision of the International Criteria for Behçet's Disease (ITR-ICBD) in JEADV (an initiative started at a Workshop in Kühtai/Austria!)
2012/12 successful application at Austrian research Fund FWF for the support of our ongoing project "TLRs and innate immunity in spondyloarthritis: Animal model and pathogenesis" (2013-2015)
2012/06 successful cooperation with German centers of rheumatology and publications:
Loock J, Henes J, Kötter I, Witte T, Lamprecht P, Schirmer M, Gross WL. Treatment of refractory giant cell arteritis with cyclophosphamide: A retrospective analysis of 35 patients from three centres. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2012; 30,1 (Suppl.70): 70-76
EULAR posters on Cyc in refractory GCA (see above) and NKG2D-mediated co-stimulation of CD4+CD28- T-cells in PMR/GCA
2012/05 publication on "Apoptotic effects of antilymphocyte globulins on human pro-inflammatory CD4+CD28- T-cells." in PLoS ONE
2012/04 publication of the "2012 provisional classification criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica: a European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology collaborative initiative," a multicentric international cooperation with Dasgupta B, Cimmino MA, Maradit-Kremers H, Schmidt WA, Schirmer M, Salvarani C, et al., results jointly published in Ann Rheum Dis. 2012;71:484-492 and Arthritis Rheum. 2012;64:943-954.
2012/03 TWF-project on pathophysiological aspects of abdominal aortic aneurysms finished
2010/09 start of funding by Innsbruck Medical University
2011 Research price of the Austrian Society of Rheumatology
2010/07 ÖNB-project 13916 on "Early Ageing of Immune Cells in Spondyloarthritis / Ankylosing Spondylitis" accepted
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