RheumPAC Champions Recognized

Election Day 2018 has come and gone, and a new class of legislators will be joining the ranks of Congress in January. RheumPAC is the most important tool we have to establish relationships with our new legislators and this year, our ACR volunteer leaders stepped up and matched all donations to RheumPAC leading up to Election Day. They gave an extra $94 for every contribution from a previous RheumPAC donor and $155 for every contribution from a first-time donor. This means even the most modest donations made an impact on our ability to introduce the ACR/ARHP to the 116th Congress.

Fittingly, 128 members invested $31,166 in RheumPAC between the beginning of the match period, Oct. 1, and midnight on Election Day. As a result, RheumPAC collected nearly $14,000 from our leaders who joined the match campaign and brings the 2018 RheumPAC total to date to nearly $140,000. A huge thank you to these champions of RheumPAC:

Abby Abelson, MD

Herb Baraf, MD (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Dan Battafarano, DO

David Borenstein, MD (Leadership Circle)

Lou Bridges, MD, PhD

Leslie Crofford, MD

Paul DeMarco, MD (Leadership Circle)

Colin Edgerton, MD (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Sean Fahey, MD

Joseph Flood, MD

Harry Gewanter, MD, FAAP, MACR

Ellen Gravallese, MD

Bansari Gujar, MD (Leadership Circle)

Max Hamburger, MD (Leadership Circle)

Jody Hargrove, MD (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Will Harvey, MD, MSc (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Ed Herzig, MD (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Michael Holers, MD

Kwas Huston, MD

Karla Jones, RN; CPNP

David Karp, MD, PhD

Stuart Kassan, MD (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Charles King II, MD (Leadership Circle)

Marisa Klein-Gitelman, MD, MPH

Sharad Lakhanpal, MD (Leadership Circle)

Jeff Lawson, MD (Leadership Circle)

Jay Mehta, MD

Gwen Melton, MD (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Sandra Mintz, MSN, RN-BC

Chris Morris, MD

Meera Oza, MD (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Bill Palmer, MD (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Bill Robinson, MD, PhD

Ken Saag, MD, MSc

Chap Sampson, MD

Nora Singer, MD

Priya Sivaraman, MD

Ellison Smith, MD (Leadership Circle)

Karina Torralba, MD (Leadership Circle)

Swamy Venuturupalli, MD

Zach Wallace, MD, MSc

Kelly Weselman, MD

Angus Worthing, MD (Leadership Circle Matcher)

Grace Wright, MD (Leadership Circle)

You can still help us introduce your issues to the 116th Congress by supporting RheumPAC today. All 2018 contributors will be noted in the RheumPAC Annual Report that will be distributed to the ACR/ARHP membership in 2019.