2019 Berlin

3rd Global Conference on Myositis (GCOM)

The third Global Conference on Myositis took place in Berlin, from Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 of March 2019.
Organizing committee: Werner Stenzel (Chair), Olivier Benveniste (Chair), Ichizo Nishino (Chair)

Main topics included the following areas:

  • Sporadic Inclusino Body Myositis (sIBM)
  • Extramuscular
    • Neoplasia
    • Lung
  • Treatment and Trials
  • Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM)
  • Dermatomyositis (DM)
  • Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathies (IMNM)
  • New Treatment Options

Meeting Abstracts

Organizing Committee

Werner Stenzel, Chair – Germany
Olivier Benveniste, Chair – France
Ichizo Nishino, Chair – Japan
Yves Allenbach – France
Hans-Hilmar Goebel – Germany
Baptiste Hervier – France
Debora Pehl – Germany
Corinna Preusse – Germany

Scientific Committee

Rohit Aggarwal – USA
Yves Allenbach – France
Anthony Amato – USA
Brigitte Bader-Meunier – France
Olivier Benveniste – France
Olivier Boyer – France
Hector Chinoy – UK
Lisa Christopher-Stine – USA
Jan de Bleecker – Belgium
Marianne de Visser – Netherlands
Mazen Dimachkie – USA
Eugen Feist – Germany
Manabu Fujimoto – Japan
Hans-Hilmar Goebel – Germany
Steven Greenberg – USA
Baptiste Hervier – France
Matsaka Kuwana – Japan
Thomas Lloyd – USA
Ingrid Lundberg – Sweden
Andrew Mammen – USA
Alain Meyer – France
Fred Miller – USA
Tahseen Mozaffar – USA
Kanneboyina Nagaraju – USA
Merrilee Needham – Australia
Ichizo Nishino – Japan
Debora Pehl – Germany
Corinna Preusse – Germany
Lisa Rider – USA
Jens Schmidt – Germany
Albert Selva O’Callagan – Spain
Werner Stenzel – Germany
Yves Troyanov – Canada
Jiri Vencovsky – Czech Republic
Guochun Wang – China
Lucy Wedderburn – UK
Victoria Werth – USA