ULU Webinars
Target group: GPs = specialists = UCARE physicians
UCARE LevelUp webinars will be held every 8 weeks. These webinars will deal with different questions and topics, which include but are not limited to guideline recommendations and updates, recent insights from publications, results from UCARE projects, a year in review webinar towards the end of 2021 and 2022, advances in the diagnostics of urticaria, the history of urticaria, advances in our understanding of chronic urticaria (CU) comorbidities, the UCARE and ACARE network interaction, the CU patient burden and how to assess it, biomarkers in CU and mast cell biology.
All webinars will be 1-hour programs with 45 minutes of presentations by one or more UCARE physician with 15 minutes for questions and answers. Recordings of the webinars will be made available on the UCARE website. The ULU webinars will bring on board suggestions for topics based on participant feedback.
ULU Quizzes
Target group: GPs = specialists > UCARE physicians
The UCARE LevelUp program will develop a quiz format where physicians can test their knowledge on a regular basis. Points can be earned and participation in all quizzes will be rewarded with a certificate. A new quiz activity will be hosted every 8 weeks and will consist of 15 multiple choice questions on topics around urticaria. Participants will answer the quiz questions live, moderated by a senior physician, who will comment on answer options and explain the correct answers. After the activity, quiz questions and answers will be posted, together with an explanation of why answers are correct or false, statistics on participation, and how physicians did on this quiz, on the UCARE website.
Nr. | Name | Center | Country | City |
1 | Aleksandra Lesiak | Department of Dermatotology , Pediatric Dermatology and Oncology, Medical Univesity of Lodz | Poland | Lodz |
2 | Ana Maria Giménez-Arnau | Dermatology Department, Hospital del Mar . IMIM; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain | Barcelona |
3 | Bahar Sevimli Dikicier | Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital, Department of Dermatovenereology | Turkey | Sakarya |
4 | Carla Ritchie | Hospital Italiano | Argentina | Buenos Aires |
5 | Désirée Larenas-Linnemann | Hospital Médica Sur | Mexico | Mexico city |
6 | Fragkiski Tsatsou | Second Dermatology Department, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Aristotle Medical School of Thessaloniki, Greece | Greece | Thessaloniki |
7 | Iman Nasr | Royal Hospital | Oman | Muscat |
8 | Joanna Narbutt | Medical University of Lodz | Poland | Lodz |
9 | José Ignacio Larco | Clínica San Felipe | Peru | Lima |
10 | Lea Alice Kiefer | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Germany | Berlin |
11 | Maryam Ali Al-Nesf | Hamad Medical Corporation | Qatar | Doha |
12 | Rabia Oztas Kara | Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital | Turkey | Sakarya |
13 | Ramzy Mohammed Ali | HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION | Qatar | Doha |
14 | Roberta Fachini Jardim Criado | Faculdade de Medicina do ABC | Brazil | Santo Andre |
15 | Rosaly Vieira dos Santos | Ucare clínica de alergia e imunologia | Brazil | Curitiba |
For more information please contact: ucare-levelup(at)ga2len.berlin
You are cordially invited to our upcoming UCARE LevelUp webinar on the topic: CU Patient Burden of the Disease to be held on November 25th, 2021 at 5:00 pm CET.
The overall aim of this webinar is to define the most stressing points about the complete burden of the disease.
The webinar will look at OPEN questions in Chronic Urticaria and will address the audience with said questions, stimulating their suggestions.
Welcome 5’
Ana Giménez-Arnau
Dermatology Department Hospital del Mar, IMIM Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The Global Burden of Chronic Urticaria for Patients:
how it is and how could we reduce it? 15’
Margarida Gonçalo
Coimbra University Hospital & Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra
The Global Burden of Chronic Urticaria for Society:
how it is and how could we reduce it? 15’
Luis Ensina
Alergia e Imunologia Clínica, Federal University of São Paulo
The Burden of Chronic Urticaria in Pediatric Patients:
how it is and how could we reduce it? 10’
Moshe Ben-Shoshan
McGill University Health Center- Montreal, Montreal Children’s Hospital
Questions and answers 15’
The overall aim of this webinar is to improve the management and awareness of solar urticaria and its differential diagnoses by learning about the clinical spectrum of UV-light induced skin diseases - taking into a special account the diagnostic work-up and treatment of solar urticaria and erythropoetic protoporphyria.
MODERATION
Marcus Maurer, Lea Kiefer
3:00-3:05 INTRODUCTION
Marcus Maurer
3:05-3:30 THE SPECTRUM OF UV-LIGHT INDUCED DISEASES
Questions & Discussion 10’
Lea Kiefer
3:30-3:55 SOLAR URTICARIA AND ITS DIFFERENTIATION
FROM OTHER PHOTODERMATOSES
Questions & Discussion 10’
Lesley Rhodes
3:55-4:20 EPP- AN OVERVIEW ON DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY
Questions & Discussion 10’
Karsten Weller
4:20-4:30 EXPERT ROUND TABLE
All faculty
4:30 End of webinar
FACULTY
Prof. Dr. Marcus Maurer - Charité, Berlin, Germany
PD Dr. med. Karsten Weller - Charité, Berlin, Germany
Lea Kiefer - Charité, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Lesley Rhodes - University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
You can register here: https://materia1a-it.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EjaRK5U0QMal9u3bK2w7gQ
GA²LEN coordinating Office
c/o DGAKI
Robert-Koch-Platz 7
10115 Berlin, Germany
UCARE office
Laura Schwenner
UCARE LevelUp Platinum Sponsor
