Customized text messages and virtual reality technology can help health professionals prompt patients to take medications and get exercise
Susan Bernstein is a freelance journalist based in Atlanta. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. Susan has worked as a professional journalist, writer, book author and editor for 25 years. She served in full-time positions with both the Arthritis Foundation and the American College of Rheumatology. She began working as a freelance journalist in 2011. Susan is the author of numerous Web and print articles on a variety of medical topics and is the author of three patient health books published by the Arthritis Foundation.
Articles by Susan Bernstein
2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Strides Made in Understanding Systemic Sclerosis
Greater knowledge of how vasculitis, fibrosis, and autoimmunity interact in these destructive diseases will result in better clinical management
2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Inflammatory Eye Disease Management Can Benefit from Collaboration between Rheumatologists and Ophthalmologists
Joint effort is critical to diagnosing and treating uveitis, iritis, and other autoimmune eye disorders in patients with inflammatory disease
2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Clues to Predictors of Autoimmune Disease Revealed
New research clarifies signs of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus years in advance and could lead to presymptomatic treatment intervention
2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Better Care for Pediatric Rheumatology Patients On Horizon
A robust workforce, flourishing clinical trials, broad patient registries, and consensus treatment protocols contribute to improvements for the subspecialty
2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: New Tools to Measure Quality in Rheumatology
Rising healthcare costs, shifting market forces will require rheumatologists to adapt new quality measurement techniques, more effective patient care models, better rheumatology registries
2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Rheumatologists Must Prepare for ICD-10 Coding System
How the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Health-Related Problems starting in 2014 will impact rheumatology practices, physicians, and staff
2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Advances in Genomic Research Demystify, Defeat Disease
Researcher J. Craig Venter, PhD, explains how technological progress in metabiomics may enable scientists to create synthetic, engineered bacteria to counter diseases and manufacture virus-fighting vaccines where they are needed
ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013: Thousands of Rheumatology Professionals Gather To Learn, Network
The ACR/ARHP’s 77th annual convention in San Diego last October attracted more than 15,000 attendees to mix, mingle, and take in educational, training, and clinical sessions
ACR 2014 Winter Rheumatology Symposium Keeps Tradition Alive
Clinicians gather each year in Snowmass, Colo. to learn from top experts in rheumatic disease—and ski with them