Author Interview: Doctor Chung-Mao Kao, May 2026

Discussing RA: Infectious complications of RA treatments

Join Professor Iain McInnes for the latest episode of Discussing RA on The Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease Forum. In this episode, he will review two recent studies by Etani et al. and George et al. that examine the infectious complications associated with immunosuppressive therapy in rheumatoid arthritis, including herpes zoster risk across five JAK inhibitors and the relationship between RA treatments and nonserious infections.

Author Interview: Doctor Chung-Mao Kao, May 2026

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Doctor Chung-Mao Kao from Taichung Veterans General Hospital, as they discuss the recent publication ‘Malignancy risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis initiating biological or targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: A 5-year population-based cohort study’.

Discussing PsA: Personalising treatment targets – understanding clinically meaningful improvement

Join Professor Laura Coates and Professor Philip Mease as they discuss a recent publication examining minimal clinically important improvement thresholds in psoriatic arthritis. This month’s conversation explores how patients with differing levels of baseline disease activity may require different degrees of improvement before perceiving treatment benefit, highlighting the potential for more personalised treatment targets and shared decision making in PsA.

EULAR 2026 Review Podcast

Join Professors Xenofon Baraliakos, Laura Coates and Dr Sofia Ramiro as they break down the top RA, PsA and axSpA abstracts, sessions and posters from this year's EULAR conference.

EULAR 2026 Day 4 Highlights Podcast

Join Professor Sofia Ramiro as she summarises her top RA, PsA and axSpA abstracts, posters, and presentations for Day 4 of EULAR 2026 (Saturday, June 6th).