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Prof Kichul Shin

Kichul Shin is a rheumatologist and a professor at Seoul National University (SNU) in Seoul, Korea. He completed his fellowship at SNU Hospital and Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, USA. He is the director of the Committee of International Affairs at the Korean College of Rheumatology and the director of the KOBIO registry. He also serves on the APLAR Executive Committee and the APLAR Center of Excellence Committee. His research interests include providing quality care for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and gout.

Kichul Shin is a rheumatologist and a professor at Seoul National University (SNU) in Seoul, Korea. He completed his fellowship at SNU Hospital and Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, USA. He is the director of the Committee of International Affairs at the Korean College of Rheumatology and the director of the KOBIO registry. He also serves on the APLAR Executive Committee and the APLAR Center of Excellence Committee. His research interests include providing quality care for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and gout.

Sessions

GRAPPA Workshop (Sponsored by Lilly)

10:45 - 15:00 29/10/26 Room 202, Level 2

Pre-congress Industry Workshop 1: SpArkling Insights on SpA (Sponsored by AbbVie)

15:00 - 17:00 29/10/26 Room 201, Level 2

APLAR – EULAR symposium

14:25 - 15:40 30/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

APLAR International Symposium

16:10 - 17:25 30/10/26 Room E5-6, Level 3

Morning Symposium 6: Transforming the Trajectory: Early Inflammation Control as a Path to Lasting Change in Spondyloarthritis (Sponsored by UCB)

10:25 - 11:25 31/10/26 Room E5-6, Level 3

SIG session: SpA

14:25 - 15:40 31/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

APLAR – ACR symposium

16:10 - 17:25 31/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

Evening symposium 1: Tacrolimus strategy for Autoimmune real-world in Rheumatic Disease (Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Korea Inc)

17:30 - 18:25 30/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

APLAR SIG General Assembly

12:45 - 15:30 01/11/26

Presentations

SpArkling Insights on SpA

15:00 - 17:00 29/10/26 Room 201, Level 2

Your co-convenor is Yoshiya Tanaka

14:25 - 15:40 30/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

Chairperson

14:25 - 15:40 30/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

Making the most of the disease-modifying therapy in gout: urate-lowering therapy – Q&A

17:01 - 17:04 30/10/26 Room E5-6, Level 3

Making the most of the disease-modifying therapy in gout: urate-lowering therapy

16:46 - 17:01 30/10/26 Room E5-6, Level 3

APLAR-PANLAR session

16:10 - 17:25 30/10/26 Room E5-6, Level 3

From Inflammation to Impact: Early Treatment Strategies in Spondyloarthritis

10:25 - 11:25 31/10/26 Room E5-6, Level 3

Your co-convenors are Katy Leung and Mitsumasa Kishimoto

14:25 - 15:40 31/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

Chairperson

14:25 - 15:40 31/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

Chairperson

16:10 - 17:25 31/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

Your co-convenor is Yoshiya Tanaka

16:10 - 17:25 31/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

Participation in workshop as speaker/chairperson/facilitator

10:45 - 15:00 29/10/26 Room 202, Level 2

Tacrolimus strategy for Autoimmune real-world in Rheumatic Disease

17:30 - 18:25 30/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

SpArkling Insights on SpA – Opening remarks

15:15 - 15:20 29/10/26 Room 201, Level 2

SpArkling Insight on SpA – Closing remarks

16:50 - 17:00 29/10/26 Room 201, Level 2

SpArkling Insights on SpA – Q&A and discussion

16:30 - 16:50 29/10/26 Room 201, Level 2

Transforming the Trajectory: Early Inflammation Control as a Path to Lasting Change in Spondyloarthritis – Welcome and Introduction

10:25 - 10:30 31/10/26 Room E5-6, Level 3

Transforming the Trajectory: Early Inflammation Control as a Path to Lasting Change in Spondyloarthritis – Closing

11:20 - 11:25 31/10/26 Room E5-6, Level 3

Transforming the Trajectory: Early Inflammation Control as a Path to Lasting Change in Spondyloarthritis – Q&A and discussion

11:10 - 11:20 31/10/26 Room E5-6, Level 3

Tacrolimus strategy for Autoimmune real-world in Rheumatic Disease – Q&A

18:10 - 18:25 30/10/26 Auditorium, Level 3

SpA – Spondyloarthritis update

12:45 - 15:30 01/11/26

SpArkling Insights on SpA

15:15 - 17:00 29/10/26 Room 201, Level 2

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Key dates

Registrations
  • Early bird
    9 June 2026 EXTENDED 23 June 2026
  • Standard
    24 June to 28 September 2026
  • Late
    29 September to 1 November 2026
Abstracts
  • Submissions open
    3 September 2025 to 11:59PM AEST, 22 May 2026 CLOSED
  • Abstract acceptance notification
    mid-July 2026
  • Late abstract submissions open
    TBC
  • Late abstract submissions notification
    TBC
  • APLAR 2026 Congress
    28 October - 1 November 2026
  • Example
    Old date strike out EXTENDED
    Old date strike out CLOSED

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Prof Chris Edwards
NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility. United Kingdom
Denis Poddubnyy
Prof. Denis Poddubnyy
University of Toronto, Canada
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Prof Lai-Shan Tam
Faculty Of Medicine, The Chinese University Of Hong Kong, China
Prof Susanna Proudman
Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
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