Connecting the dots in rare disease education
NIRDs connects healthcare professionals with focused education, expert perspectives, and timely updates on rare disease diagnosis, management, therapies, and clinical research.
2026 conference sponsors
Filling the Knowledge Gap to Advance Rare Disease Care
- Engage
Advisory boards and consensus panels
Expert roundtables and focus groups that generate publishable insight and real-world data.
- Educate
Webinars and national conferences
Targeted online webinars and flagship annual conferences with each specialty.
- Reach
Accredited CME on the big stages
Dedicated podium time and satellite symposia at the field's largest, most established meetings.
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Novel Insights in Rare Diseases is a hub for healthcare-professional education in rare and immune-mediated disease. It is organized into specialty sections, each running its own education, engagement and industry-collaboration programs.
Rare diseases are often under-recognized precisely because they sit between disciplines. NIRDs closes that gap the same way in every section: convene the clinicians who see these patients, ground the discussion in real data, and keep the field current as new therapies arrive.
How we educate
Conferences
Saturday, November 14
8:00 AM
Breakfast CME Satellite Symposium - The Immune Reset Era: Where Cell Therapy Fits in Refractory Autoimmune Skin Disease
Jingmei Hsu, MD; Khalid Shah, MS, PhD
9:05 AM
LOCALLY ADVANCED CUTANEOUS SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA: The Patient Who Falls Through the Cracks: Defining Locally Advanced Disease
Abrar A. Qureshi, MD, MPH
9:20 AM
From Ligand to Response: Why PD-(L)1 Blockade Moved the Ceiling
Nikhil Khushalani, MD
9:35 AM
UNLOXCYT® (cosibelimab-ipdl): The Evidence and How it Reads in the Clinic
Vishal A. Patel, MD
9:50 AM
Panel Discussion and Q & A: The Referral Conversation
Nikhil Khushalani, MD; Vishal A. Patel, MD; Abrar A. Qureshi, MD, MPH
- Webinars
- Recurring webinar series across the specialty sections.
- Roundtables
- In person, focused round table discussions with expert advisors in the field.
Every specialty, its own program
Dermatology
- NIRDs Dermatology Rare Disease Conference. November 13 to 15, 2026.
- AAD 2026 and 2027. A directed, accredited forum at the world's largest dermatology meeting.
- Maui Derm, four meetings across 2026 and 2027. One dedicated educational hour at each, spanning NP, PA and physician audiences.
Rheumatology
- Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician. Cleveland Clinic. Las Vegas, February 2027.
- Biologic Therapies Summit. Cleveland, May 2027.
Gastroenterology
- Monthly CME webinar series. Year-round, online.
Oncology
- From Lesion to Systemic Therapy. CME satellite symposium adjunct to ASCO 2026. Chicago, May 29, 2026.
Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology coming in 2027.