David L. Leverenz, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C.
Akrithi Udupa, MD, is an adult rheumatology fellow in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C.
Guy Katz, MD, is an adult rheumatology fellow in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Didem Saygin, MD, is an adult rheumatology fellow in the Rheumatology Section, University of Chicago.
Christopher Witt, MD, is an internal medicine resident in the Department of Medicine, Duke University Hospital.
Lisa G. Criscione-Schreiber, MD, MEd, is a professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, and staff physician, Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, North Carolina.
Matthew A. Sparks, MD, is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology, Duke University School of Medicine, and a staff physician in the Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
Disclosures
Dr. Leverenz received funding for RheumMadness from the Rheumatology Research Foundation Clinician Scholar Educator Award. He has also received grant funding from Pfizer for quality improvement work unrelated to RheumMadness.
Dr. Criscione-Schreiber has received grant funding from GSK for HOP-STEP, an educational project about pregnancy in lupus patients.
Dr. Sparks receives an honorarium from the National Kidney Foundation for his participation in the educational project, NephMadness.
Drs. Udupa, Katz, Saygin and Witt have no pertinent disclosures.
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