Prologue: 2020 Annual Meeting of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA)

Kristina Callis Duffin; Alice B Gottlieb; Denis O'Sullivan; Dafna D Gladman; Lynne V McFarland

doi:10.3899/jrheum.201666

Prologue: 2020 Annual Meeting of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA)

J Rheumatol. 2021 Feb 15:jrheum.201666. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.201666. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Kristina Callis Duffin¹, Alice B Gottlieb¹, Denis O'Sullivan¹, Dafna D Gladman¹, Lynne V McFarland¹

Affiliation

¹ As part of the supplement series GRAPPA 2020, this report was reviewed internally and approved by the Guest Editors for integrity, accuracy, and consistency with scientific and ethical standards. The source of support to enable these meetings was provided in 2020 by AbbVie, Amgen, Eli Lilly & Co., Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead, Boehringer-Ingelheim, and SunPharma. In addition, our Innovation Partner in 2020 was Nordic Bioscience. K. Callis Duffin, MD, MS, Department of Dermatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; A.B. Gottlieb, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Co-chair, GRAPPA Publication Committee, New York, New York, USA; D. O'Sullivan, BE, GRAPPA Patient Research Partner, Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services, Rheumatic & Musculoskeletal Disease Unit, Dublin, Ireland; D.D. Gladman, MD, FRCPC, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, Senior Scientist, Krembil Research Institute, Director, Psoriatic Arthritis Program, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; L.V. McFarland, MS, PhD, Consultant, Public Health Reserves Corps, Seattle, Washington, USA. KCD reports the following conflicts of interest: grants/investigator for Amgen, AbbVie, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Stiefel, Novartis, Pfizer, Sienna, UCB, Regeneron, Boehringer-Ingelheim; speaker's bureau for Novartis (nonpromotional only); consultant/advisory board for Amgen, AbbVie, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Stiefel, Novartis, Pfizer, Sienna, UCB, Ortho Dermatologic, Boehringer-Ingelheim. There are no conflicts of interest for all other coauthors. Address correspondence to Dr. K. Callis Duffin, University of Utah, 4A330 Dermatology, SOM, 30 North 1900 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA. Email: Kristina.callis@hsc.utah.edu.

PMID: 33589551
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.201666

Abstract

The Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) held its annual meeting in 2020 in an online format due to travel restrictions during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19; caused by SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. The virtual meeting was attended by 351 rheumatologists, dermatologists, representatives of biopharmaceutical companies, and patient research partners. Similar to previous years, GRAPPA's annual meeting focused on the 3 overlapping missions of education, research, and clinical care of psoriatic disease. Trainee sessions this year included the annual trainee symposium and a grant-writing workshop. Plenary sessions included updates on COVID-19 and psoriatic disease from multispecialty and patient perspectives, and updates on pustular psoriasis and associated musculoskeletal manifestations. Progress on research and updates were presented for the following groups: Collaborative Research Network, Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Psoriatic Arthritis Working Group, International Dermatology Outcome Measures, Composite Measures, Education Committee, and Treatment Guidelines. New this year were 3 concurrent workshops on ultrasound assessment of joints and entheses, magnetic resonance imaging of psoriatic arthritis, and pustular psoriasis efficacy endpoints; 6 "Meet the Expert" sessions; and facilitated "poster tours." In our prologue, we introduce the papers that summarize this meeting.