Invited Faculty
  • Yeon-Ah Lee
    Kyung Hee Univ.
    Korea
  • Yeon-Ah Lee joined the Kyung Hee University faculty in 2010 and was promoted to professor of Rheumatology in 2019. She earned her M.D. degree in 1999 from Kyung Hee University Medical School. She completed her internal medicine residency, rheumatology fellowship at Kyung Hee University Hospital and she spent a year as a visiting scholar at Utz lab at Stanford University in 2014. She has expertise in the clinical study of rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis, and CTD-ILD. Now she started to do saliva diagnostics for autoimmune diseases with co-workers. She is a member of both Academic Committee of the Korean Association of Internal Medicine and the Korean College of Rheumatology.
    Research & Clinical Focus

    CTD-ILD

    Rheumatoid arthritis

    Spondyloarthritis

    Saliva diagnostics

    Biomarker discovery

    • Date Time Room Session Title Lecture Title
    Oct 22 08:00-08:40 Room B [Breakfast Symposium II - JW Pharmaceutical] IL-6R Inhibition : Transforming People's Lives, for a Future on their Term Tocilizumab- an effective treatment option for Still’s disease
    Oct 22 13:30-14:00 Room A [International Symposium] Update of Fibromyalgia Medical and non-medical treatment of fibromyalgia