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You are here: Home / Articles / The ACR/ARHP Award Winners Discuss Their Contributions to Rheumatology

The ACR/ARHP Award Winners Discuss Their Contributions to Rheumatology

January 19, 2016 • By Richard Quinn

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A: It just made me feel so appreciated. I’m not a big researcher. I don’t run a department. I suit up and show up every day and see patients. To have people recognize my contribution to that and to our teaching program for our young rheumatology fellows—it was just really remarkable. I was deeply touched.

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ARHP Lifetime Achievement Award

Patricia Katz, PhDPatricia Katz, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, University of California San Francisco

Background: Dr. Katz studied measurement theory and exercise science before “stumbling” into a career in medicine—how fortunate for the field of rheumatology.

“When I moved to San Francisco in 1986, I got a job working at UCSF, and I’ve been there ever since,” she says. “Soon after I started at UCSF, I began working with Ed Yelin, who was doing research in rheumatoid arthritis, and it just resonated. That was 25 years ago. It was an accidental, fortuitous occurrence.”

Dr. Katz’s research has appeared in more than 200 publications, with her primary interests being the measurement of patient-centered outcomes and the impact of lifestyle factors—primarily obesity and physical activity—on outcomes. She has served the ARHP in many capacities, including on the Program Committee and Subcommittee on Diagnostic, Classification, and Response Criteria. She is a past editor of Arthritis Care & Research, has attended every ARHP meeting since 1990, and served a three-year term on the Rheumatology Research Foundation Scientific Advisory Council.

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Filed Under: Awards, Career Development, Professional Topics Tagged With: ACR/ARHP, American College of Rheumatology, Association of Rheumatology Professionals (ARP), Award, winnerIssue: January 2016

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