Jason Liebowitz, MD, is a rheumatologist with Skylands Medical Group in Rockaway, N.J. He completed his undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he also served as a chief resident. He completed his rheumatology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and was nominated for the 2019 Distinguished Fellow Award from the American College of Rheumatology. His research has been published in JAMA Internal Medicine, The Journal of Rheumatology, Arthritis Care and Research, The American Journal of Medicine and Medical Humanities. He greatly enjoys teaching trainees and caring for patients, which he considers a tremendous honor and privilege, and he is grateful to be able to cover medical conferences and contribute articles to The Rheumatologist.
Constructing a safe space for reporting errors is important & enables medical trainees to grow, making them better learners and scholars, and faculty members and patients to express their concerns. During a session at the 2022 ACR Education Exchange, Karina Torralba, MD, MACM, RhMSUS, provided insights into how to manage the barriers to fostering such a workplace culture.... [Read More]
Jonathan Hausmann, MD, discussed how active learning techniques, such as the flipped classroom, can increase the effectiveness of medical education and the success of rheumatology fellows.... [Read More]
The ACR’s Committee on Rheumatology Training & Workforce Issues helps young rheumatologists to become successful and find meaning in their work. Here is an update on the committee’s most recent accomplishments.... [Read More]
Experts presented ways to rethink journal club to improve engagement and how an image-based program can help teach the assessment of cutaneous lupus erythematosus across differing skin tones.... [Read More]
At the 17th Annual Advances in the Diagnosis & Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases meeting, Dana DiRenzo, MD, MHS, RhMSUS, discussed the use of ultrasound imaging in patients with inflammatory arthritis. ... [Read More]
At the 17th Annual Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases meeting, Clifton Bingham, MD, delves into research into rheumatoid arthritis at the cellular level.... [Read More]
At the 17th Annual Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases meeting, Ana-Maria Orbai, MD, MHS, discussed lessons learned from the cases of several patients with psoriatic arthritis.... [Read More]
At the 17th Annual Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases meeting at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Atul Deodhar, MD, discussed ankylosing spondylitis and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis & clarified common misconceptions about these conditions.... [Read More]
During the ACR Convergence 2021 annual Review Course, Peter Merkel, MD, MPH, provided recent updates on vasculitis.... [Read More]
Laura Hummers, MD, MSc, provided an update on the extra-pulmonary manifestations of scleroderma & the best ways to approach management of these issues. ... [Read More]