How ACR Volunteers Educate School Nurses About Childhood-Onset Lupus

The School Health Outreach Project (SHOP) is a project within The Lupus Initiative of the ACR, with funding support provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The goal is to increase support for training school-based healthcare professionals about childhood-onset, systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE), its signs and symptoms and the pediatric to adult transition of care. SHOP also supports students living with lupus and their families.

Coordinated by the ACR’s Collaborative Initiatives (COIN) division and grounded in a partnership with the National Association of School Nurses (NASN), state school nursing associations are connected with an ACR member who is a pediatric rheuma­tologist practicing within their state. COIN provides these members with a presentation created by an ACR workgroup, and the member facilitates an educational session and Q&A for school nurses and nurse supervisors. Sessions are held either virtually or in person, with some members traveling multiple hours to conduct the presentations.

The COIN Committee and ACR/ARP staff would like to recognize and thank the members who have presented to groups of school nurses over the past school year:

• Aarat Patel, MD
• Kristina Ciaglia, MD
• Albert Chow, MD, FAAP
• Christian-Immanuel Oliveros, MD
• Julia Shalen, MD, MEd
• McKenzie Vater, MD
• Matthew Hollander, MD
• Lakshmi Nandini Moorthy, MD, MS, MBBS
• Kerstin Gerhold, MD, PhD, MSc, FACR
• M. Brad Nelson, MD, MPH

In the past two years, SHOP has educated more than 520 school nurses in 10 states: Virginia, Texas, California, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio, Vermont, New Jersey, Mississippi and Kansas.

Visit rheumatology.org/collaborative-initiatives for more information on COIN projects.