In summary, the ACR/ARHP has generated much international collaboration, but we welcome your ideas to continue and expand our global outreach. We need volunteers to help recruit international members, provide opportunities for our expanding ACR exchanges, and contribute to our educational meetings and publications. Given our past and present successes, future collaborations with colleagues around the world will lead to improved outcomes for our members, our patients and the worldwide rheumatology community.
Joan M. Von Feldt, MD, MSEd, FACR, FACP, is president of the ACR and a professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also staff physician at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
Elizabeth A. Schlenk, PhD, RN, is president of the ARHP and an associate professor of nursing at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches masters and doctoral students and conducts research.
References
- Friedman TL. It’s a flat world, after all. 2005 Apr 3. The New York Times.
- Solomon DH, Tyndall A, Gabriel SE, Dougados M. Rheumatology gone global. Arthritis Rheum. 2008 Oct 15; 59(10):1369–1370.
