News/Events

February 2010

The first ever Lupus Conference/Special Lecture Series was held on 2/26/10.  Special guest nephrologist Dr. James Chevalier from New York Hospital presented “Lupus Nephritis from the Nephrologist's Perspective.”  This new lecture series aims to highlight lupus and a closely related field. Please see our Special Lecture Series page for upcoming lectures.

January 2010

Winter, 2010 HSS Lupus Center Patient Newsletter	January, 2010 HSS Lupus Center Professional Newsletter

November 2009

• Learn more about the 13th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies that will be held in Galveston, TX in April 2010. Dr. Doruk Erkan and Dr. Michael Lockshin both participate in the Organizing Committee of this important meeting.

October 2009

• HSS Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Care (MKCLC) Attending Physicians and Researchers presented 18 studies at the 2009 Annual American College of Rheumatology Meeting, held October 16-21, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA. See the selected studies.
  
• Special talks and sessions were given by Lupus Attending Physicians at the 2009 Annual American College of Rheumatology Meeting held October 16-21, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA. See the selected sessions.
  
• The Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Counseling Program successfully completed its first Patient Symposium & Celebration on 10/23/09, with special guests, The American Heart Association.
  
• MKCLC and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Counseling Program Nurse, Monica Richey, ANP, GNP, was named the first ever Rheumatology Nurse Practitioner at HSS. She will be working with collaborating physician, Dr. Stephen Paget, Physician-in-Chief and Chairman of the Division of Rheumatology. Congratulations, Monica.

August 2009

• Dr. Doruk Erkan and Monica Richey, ANP, GNP present a lecture - Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Lupus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome - at the 2nd Rheumatology Nurses Society Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.

July 2009

• Dr. Kyriakos Kirou, Dr. Doruk Erkan, and Pretima Persad summarize new clinical trial information on a promising Lupus medication, Benlysta®

June 2009

• Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Care- Official Kickoff