KOURIR Award 2022

PReS and KOURIR would like to congratulate Claudia Bracaglia and team for receiving the Kourir Award for the MAS/sJIA Working Party project on “Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis associated lung disease in Europe” for the best research work that could provide new insights into development of treatment of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.

Launch of the new PMM Online

PMM had a major revision in 2022 and aims to remain of relevance to the wider community to support educational activities.

PMM is for all clinicians who may encounter children and aims to raise awareness, knowledge and  clinical skills to facilitate early diagnosis and referral, where necessary, to specialist care. PMM is recommended for PReS members to use in their teaching of medical students, paediatricians, family doctors and allied health professionals.

SHARE JDM survey

The CARRA JDM Disease Committee, with IMACS, would be very grateful if you could complete an important, voluntary IRB-approved survey to help us determine the worldwide applicability of the consensus guidelines for JDM for assessment and treatment (SHARE Guidelines https://ard.bmj.com/content/76/2/329).  Please respond by August 30, 2022.

Open call: EMERGE representatives for Vaccination WP and JIA WP

We are looking for EMERGE representatives to join the PRES Vaccination Working Party and JIA Working Party. Please send the application form below to emerge.pres@gmail.com, together with a CV (additional publication list is optional). Applicants should identify which WP they want to apply to in the topic of their application email. Deadline for applications is 15th August 2022.

Read the Task Force June Newsletter

The only constant in life is change and this is especially true for the dynamic members of the Task Force! Congratulations to Prof Claudia Saad-Maghalães from Brazil who has kindly agreed to replace Prof Helen Foster as Co-Chair on the Task Force.