UCARE LevelUp webinars are held approximately every 8 weeks, covering topics such as 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.
- Webinar 10: REGISTER NOW: Urticaria in Special Populations, April 23, 2024
- Webinar 11: REGISTER NOW: Acute urticaria – current perspective and what key points to consider, June 25, 2024
- Webinar 9: Recalcitrant Urticaria: What to do when guidelines fail?
- Webinar 8: Urticaria: The mind and body interaction
- Webinar 7: URTICARIA AND ALLERGY: When to suspect allergy in an urticaria patient?
- Webinar 6: Deep down to the differential diagnosis of urticaria
- UCARE LevelUp 1.0 Webinars
- Webinar 1: Solar Urticaria and its Differential Diagnoses
- Webinar 2: Chronic Urticaria Patient Burden of the Disease
- Webinar 3: Year-End Review 2021 UCARE Meeting
- Webinar 4: Guideline recommendations and updates on CSU definitions
- Webinar 5: How to do a scientific project through UCARE
Webinar 10: REGISTER NOW: Urticaria in Special Populations, April 23, 2024
Webinar 11: REGISTER NOW: Acute urticaria – current perspective and what key points to consider, June 25, 2024
Date: June 25th, 2024
Time: 4.00 to 5:00 pm CEST
Topic: Acute urticaria – current perspective and what key points to consider
Target audience: All physicians treating urticaria/GPs
Description and aim: This webinar focuses on the most frequent presentation of urticaria: acute urticaria. The speakers will highlight how it is defined, where it comes from, how to manage it, and how we may suspect it will evolve into chronic urticaria.
Speakers and topics:
- Introduction + Moderator: Ana Giménez-Arnau, Spain (5 minutes)
- Causes of acute urticaria – Ümit Şahiner, Turkey (15 minutes)
- Management of acute urticaria – Joao Marcelino, Berlin (15 minutes)
- When does acute urticaria evolve into chronic urticaria? –
Martin Metz, Germany (15 minutes) - Questions and Answer Session – all faculty, moderated by Ana Giménez-Arnau, Spain (10 minutes)
Webinar 9: Recalcitrant Urticaria: What to do when guidelines fail?
January 23, 2024, 4.00 to 5.00 pm CET
Target audience: Predominantly specialists
Description/aim: The global guidelines on urticaria are a marvelous document, but there are always exceptions: patients who do not fare well with the proposed therapies, new treatment options not yet covered by the GLs and when resources are a restriction to apply the GLs fully. This webinar addresses these three topics.
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS:
Introduction & Moderation: Désirée Larenas-Linnemann
Approach to patients who fail conventional therapy: Jorge Sanchez
Treatment option beyond guidelines: David Khan
Management of urticaria in resource limited setting: Kiran Godse
Questions and Answers: All faculty
Moderated by Prof. Dr. Désirée Larenas-Linnemann
Webinar 8: Urticaria: The mind and body interaction
November 15, 2023
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.
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
Introduction and moderation: Emek Kocatürk Göncü
Prevalence of psychological comorbidities and how to recognize them in CU patients
Anna Zalewska-Janowska
Alexithymia and sleep disorders in CSU: Ivan Cherrez
The effects of psychological treatments and interventions focused on wellbeing in urticaria
Indrashis Podder
Questions and Answers: All Speakers
Moderator: Emek Kocatürk Göncü
Webinar 7: URTICARIA AND ALLERGY: When to suspect allergy in an urticaria patient?
September 27, 2023
Target audience: Advanced physicians treating urticaria (dermatologists, allergologists, general practitioners)
This webinar defines the association of urticaria and allergy. The audience will learn about the clues in patient history, physical examination and clinical characteristics that may guide clinicians on ruling out as a cause of allergy in acute and chronic urticaria patients.
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
Introduction: Emek Kocatürk Göncü
When to suspect allergy in acute urticaria patients: Désirée Larenas-Linneman
When to suspect allergy in chronic urticaria patients: Jonathan Bernstein
Immediate contact reactions, contact urticaria syndrome: Ana Gimenéz-Arnau
Questions and Answer Session
Webinar 6: Deep down to the differential diagnosis of urticaria
July 12th, 2023
Deep down to the differential diagnosis of urticaria: Autoinflammatory disorders – what do we need to know?
Target audience: Advanced physicians treating urticaria (dermatologists, allergologists, general practitioners)
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
Introduction: Jason Fok
Differential diagnosis of urticaria from the dermatology point of view: Clive Grattan
Differential diagnosis from the rheumatology point of view: Anne Pankow
Practical approch to manage auto-inflammatory syndromes: Karoline Krause
Questions and Answer Session
UCARE LevelUp 1.0 Webinars
Webinar 1: Solar Urticaria and its Differential Diagnoses
September 22, 2021
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.
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
Introduction: Marcus Maurer
The Spectrum of UV-Light Induced Diseases: Lea Kiefer
Solar Urticaria and its Differentiation from other Photodermatoses: Lesley Rhodes
An Overview on Diagnosis and Therapy: Karsten Weller
Questions and Answer Session
Webinar 2: Chronic Urticaria Patient Burden of the Disease
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
Introduction: Ana Giménez-Arnau
The Global Burden of CU for Patients: How is it and how could we reduce it?
Margarida Gonçalo
The Global Burden of CU for Society: How is it and how could we reduce it?
Luis Ensina
The Burden of CU in Pediatric Patients: How is it and how could we reduce it?
Moshe Ben-Shoshan
Questions and Answer Session
November 25, 2021
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.
Webinar 3: Year-End Review 2021 UCARE Meeting
February 2, 2022
The UCARE 2021 Conference is one of the biggest and most important urticaria meetings of 2021, featuring sessions on new insights on the pathogenesis, the differential diagnosis, and the management approach to urticaria as well as on new results from basic scientific projects and epidemiological studies on chronic urticaria. New treatment approaches and the results of clinical studies in chronic urticaria will also play a big part in the conference.
This webinar will give a brief overview of the individual conference sessions. Moreover, speakers shall share their critical look on the topics that were featured during the conference.
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
Welcome: Désirée Larenas-Linneman
Summary of the Poster Session: Pavel Kolkhir
Summary of the Lectures: Mónica Rodrigues
Summary of the Workshops: Chuda Rujitharanawong
Summary of the Oral Communications: Isabel Ogueta
Questions and Answer Session
Webinar 4: Guideline recommendations and updates on CSU definitions
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
Welcome & Introduction: Iman Nasr
Diagnosis of CU, How to evaluate disease severity: Margarida Gonçalo
Treatment algorithm and treatment adjustment: What do the recent guidelines say?
Torsten Zuberbier
Treatment options for CSU and CIndU: What’s the best for each? – A brief overview of guidelines
Désirée Larenas-Linneman
Questions and Answer session
June 21, 2022
This webinar will give a brief overview on guideline recommendations and updates on CSU definitions and diagnosis, the different steps of treatments and what the updates are. In addition, how to use the Guideline in regard to CindU will be covered as well.
Webinar 5: How to do a scientific project through UCARE
November 25, 2022
With the GA²LEN Urticaria Centres of Reference and Excellence’s (UCARE’s) reach, spanning across 137 certified centers in 43 Countries, it is the worlds largest urticaria focussed network. This makes UCARE the perfect catalyst for scientific projects. This webinar explains the importance of scientific projects, how to do a scientific project through UCARE and will give valuable insight and key learnings from past project leaders. UCARE LevelUp bring free education to medical professionals.
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
Welcome: Marcus Maurer
The importance of UCARE projects: Hanna Bonnekoh
The 10-step UCARE project roadmap: Marcus Maurer
Key learnings from completing a UCARE project: Emek Kocatürk
How the UCARE office helps UCARE projects on their way to success: Julia Föll
Questions & Answer Session
