Pediatric Grand Rounds

The Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds

November 19, 2009
8:00am-9:00am
Billings Auditorium—P117

Juvenile Dermatomyositis: Clues to Pathophysiology

Lauren M. Pachman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Director, Cure-JM Program of Excellence in
Juvenile Myositis Research

Objectives:
~Recognize the impact of the length of time of untreated chronic inflammation on the child’s physical findings and laboratory data at diagnosis.
~ Recognize abnormalities in muscle microvasculature and in nailfold capillary end row loops as hallmarks of JDM and their effect on therapy.

1 CME Credit Offered