The editorial staff of The Rheumatologist comprises medical and publishing professionals.
Physician Editor
Dr. Bharat Kumar
Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS, is a clinical associate professor of internal medicine in the Division of Immunology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City. Before assuming the role of physician editor, he was a member of the ACR Board of Directors (beginning in 2020). After attending college at the University of Pennsylvania, he went to Saba University School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Kentucky. He arrived in Iowa in 2014 and completed fellowships in both rheumatology and allergy/immunology in 2017, as well as a master’s degree in medical education and certification in musculoskeletal ultrasonography. His clinical interests include the intersection of autoimmunity and immunodeficiency, musculoskeletal ultrasonography and shared decision making. As the program director for the University of Iowa rheumatology fellowship training program, he is driven by a desire to improve the quality of medical education, as well as the value of clinical work for both patients and healthcare team members. Outside the clinic, Dr. Kumar has a keen interest in medical journalism, quality improvement and humanism, and is the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s humanism-in-research associate editor.
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Editor
Ms. Losavio
Keri Losavio has been a professional editor and writer in the medical field for more than 20 years and joined the Wiley team as the editor of The Rheumatologist in February 2014. She has written for and edited magazines, newsletters, textbooks, personal memoirs, dissertations and more.
Associate Editor
Dr. Colin Ligon
Colin B. Ligon, MD, MHS, is a clinical rheumatologist with Penn Specialty Practices Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He completed his residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, Connecticut, and his rheumatology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, where he also completed a Master of Health Science. He previously worked at the University of Pennsylvania as co-director of the Sarcoidosis Center. He maintains clinical interests in the overlap of pulmonary and rheumatic diseases. He enjoys tennis, outdoor activities and spending time with his wife and three daughters.
Associate Editor
Dr. Susan Bartlett
Susan J. Bartlett, PhD, is a full professor of medicine at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore. She has been an active member of the ARP since 1998, most recently serving on the Executive Committee (2021–2023). She also served as editor of the ACR’s Clinical Care in the Rheumatic Diseases, 3rd edition. Her research focuses on ensuring we capture the outcomes that matter most to people living with rheumatic diseases in arthritis research and care. She has led clinical trials to improve the quality of life for people with rheumatic diseases through changes in diet, exercise, treatment adherence and other health behaviors in the U.S. and Canada, and has authored more than 220 articles.
Staff Writers
The Rheumatologist also boasts a freelance writing staff of more than 15 medical journalists, who have years of experience covering healthcare issues.