Improve RA Care with Vitamin D

Dewan Kazi Fahima, DO, a graduate of UMDNJ-SOM, is now a third-year internal medicine resident at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, N.J. She hopes to join the rheumatology field soon as a fellow.

Rafah Salloum, MD, is a rheumatology attending at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, N.J.

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