New ways of dealing with an old problem - the fight against arthritis

JACOBSON LECTURE

Arthritis comes in very many forms and seems to have always been with us in its many guises. Many types of arthritis would appear to be determined by our genes and are likely often triggered by infection or joint injury. The disease has generally received limited attention mainly because it is not as life threatening as some other conditions. But in recent years society and governments have become more aware of this crippling disease and the tremendous economic and social burden that it presents.

With the advent of renewed interest in joint pathology, stimulated in recent years by major technological advances in our understanding of how cellular processes are regulated in joint tissues, we are now reaching an exciting new understanding of how these diseases can be both detected and treated with an ability that would a few years ago not have been considered possible. In this lecture we will examine the challenges we face in this disease and examine current and future solutions in our successful fight against arthritis.

Anthony Poole is Director of the Joint Diseases Laboratory, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Professor, Department of Surgery and Medicine at McGill University and Scientific Co-director of the Canadian Arthritis Network, a National Centre of Excellence. He has been President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society, President of the 6th World Congress of the Inflammation Research Association and member of the Editorial Board of Arthritis Research. He has received numerous honors for his research including the Carol Nachman prize and a honorary DSC from the University of Reading.

Unless otherwise noted, lectures start at 5.30, last one hour and take place in the Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, which sits directly across the road from Haymarket Metro Station. All lectures are free and the public are encouraged to attend. In the event of an over-capacity audience we provide audio-relay to a second lecture theatre.

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