Funding Crisis Threatens Research and Training in Rheumatology

You can find more details on the research funding analysis in the Foundation’s full report. To read it, visit http://www.rheumatology.org/Foundation/Research/The_State_of_Funding_for_Rheumatology_Research.

Dr. Joseph Flood is president of the ACR and a rheumatologist at the Columbus Arthritis Center and adjunct professor of internal medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, both in Columbus. Contact him at [email protected].

David R. Karp, MD, PhD, is president of the Rheumatology Research Foundation and chief of the Rheumatic Diseases Division at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Dr. Karp has worked with the Foundation for nearly a decade and is directly invested in rheumatology research.