The Health Professionals committee has tailored a programme focusing on interests for health professionals.
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS PROGRAM
Day 1 - 17 September 2026
08:30 – 10:45: Networking Meeting
08:30 – 08:45: Introductions
08:45 – 09:05: Latest Scientific Insights for HPs (Nursing)
09:05 – 09:25: Latest Scientific Insights for HPs (Physiotherapy)
09:25 – 09:45: Latest Scientific Insights for HPs (Psychology)
09:45 – 10:30: Networking / World Café (Past – Present – Future)
10:30 – 10:45: Shared learning and wrap-up
The Health Professionals Kick-Off Session and Networking Meeting brings together colleagues from different disciplines for an interactive exchange on current research, clinical practice, and future directions within the HP community.
The session will include short networking presentations highlighting latest scientific insights from nursing, physiotherapy, and psychology, followed by an interactive World Café session exploring past developments, present challenges, and future perspectives in pediatric rheumatology health professional care and research.
While these three professions will provide the starting perspectives, the session is explicitly open to contributions, experiences, and ideas from all professional backgrounds and participants (for example dieticians, pharmacists, occupational therapists, researchers and many more!).
To facilitate the discussions, all participants and professions will work with a “scientific traffic lights” approach:
- Red – aspects we may need to leave behind
- Yellow – areas requiring reflection or rethinking
- Green – ideas and approaches that should move forward
Participants will write their reflections on colored sticky notes, creating a collective visual map across three guiding perspectives:
- Past: Where have we come from?
- Present: Where are we now?
- Future: Where do we want to go?
During the wrap-up session, each discussion group will briefly summarize its key messages and priorities.
As in the previous year, a short pre-session survey is planned to activate the group, gather preliminary ideas, and support the discussions.
The collected insights from both the survey and the World Café discussions may form the basis for future collaborative projects and scientific initiatives focusing on interdisciplinary priorities, HP research interests, and future directions within the pediatric rheumatology HP community.
We warmly invite all participants to share ideas, connect across disciplines, and help shape future collaborations within the HP network.
13:00 – 14:00: Great Debate – Does a Longer Admission Improve Outcomes?
Day 2 - 18 September 2026
08:00 – 09:30: Rotational Workshop – Importance of Self-Care: Mindfulness & Exercise
09:45 – 10:45: Joint Session PReS / HP
Symposium - Dietary Manipulation for the Immune System
13:00 – 14:00: Joint Session HP / ENCA
Symposium - Building Patient Networks
17:30 – 18:30: Health Professionals Session
Symposium - Neurodiversity & Pain in Rheumatology