President’s Corner: The ACR & Pediatric Rheumatology

ARP

The ARP serves a diverse range of professionals who have a focus on pediatric rheumatology. These professionals represent essential leaders and partners in the clinical and research teams that advance care for patients with pediatric rheumatic disease.

Rheumatology Research Foundation

The Foundation supports pediatric rheumatology through career development and innovative research awards, both general and pediatric specific, supporting recruitment, education and training.

• Pediatric Rheumatology Fellow Research Award: This award recognizes outstanding scientific abstracts submitted by pediatric rheumatology fellows to ACR Convergence.
• Pediatric Visiting Professorship: This award supports a board-certified professor of pediatric rheumatology to visit an academic institution that lacks expertise in the field.
• Education & training: Approximately 28% of Foundation workforce programs have supported pediatric fellowship programs and pediatric practices over the past five years. Award opportunities include the Fellowship Training Awards, Fellowship Training Awards for Workforce Expansion and the Mentored Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Award for Workforce Expansion.

In Sum

The ACR’s mission is to empower rheumatology professionals to excel in their specialty. Through support of pediatric rheumatology, the ACR/ARP will continue to advance this mission across the entire spectrum of rheumatic disease affecting both children and adults.

Carol A. Langford, MD, MHS, is the director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research in the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases at Cleveland Clinic, where she is professor of medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and holds the Harold C. Schott endowed chair in rheumatic and immunologic diseases.