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Career Corner: Whether you're a new rheumatology fellow, an experienced academic rheumatologist, a researcher or a rheumatologist in private practice, you'll find resources in the articles here designed to help you at every stage of your career. You can find information on academic vs. private practice, how to navigate an employment offer, compensation models, noncompete agreements and even tips for selling your practice.

In addition, be sure to review the ACR's career resources: ACR CareerConnection and FIT Career Roadmap.

A Half-Century of Rheumatology

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Celebrating its long history, the Division of Rheumatology & Immunology at Medical University of South Carolina has made strides in scleroderma, lupus and more.

Ellen M. Gravallese, MD, Now an APLAR Master

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As the Asia-Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) convened its 26th annual congress in Singapore this August, Ellen M. Gravallese, MD, was honored as an APLAR Master. Dr. Gravallese is currently the Theodore Bevier Bayles Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity at Brigham…

Summer 2024’s Awards, Appointments & Announcements in the World of Rheumatology

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Dr. Megan Cooper Appointed Director of Pediatric Rheumatology & Immunology Division at WashU Megan A. Cooper, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist recognized internationally for her work in pediatric immunodeficiencies and immune dysregulation, took the reins of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, as director this past fall….

Dual Certification: Med-Peds Rheumatology Is a Small, but Growing, Specialty

Sarah D. Bayefsky, MD  |  

Wondering how best to care for an adult patient with juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis or a pediatric patient with early-onset osteoarthritis? Unsure how to manage a 23-year-old with chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis or an 8-year-old with tophaceous gout due to Lesch-Nyhan syndrome? Ask a Med-Peds rheumatologist. What Is a Med-Peds Rheumatologist? Med-Peds rheumatologists in the U.S….

Survey Reports Significant Frustrations Among Academic Physicians

Catherine Kolonko  |  

Nearly one-third of academic physicians surveyed, including many rheumatologists, were considering leaving their institutions within two years of the survey, often because of a lack of professional fulfillment or from professional burnout, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open in fall 2023.1,2 That amount of physician turnover contributes to an interruption of patient…

When Rheumatologists Have Rheumatic Diseases

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  “I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”1 These profound words from Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, Linda R. Meier…

Spring 2024’s Awards, Appointments & Announcements in Rheumatology

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Carola Vinuesa, MD, PhD, Honored with Lupus Insight Prize In June 2023 at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS), Carola Vinuesa, MD, PhD, a Royal Society Wolfson fellow and assistant research director at the Francis Crick Institute, London, was awarded the Lupus Research Alliance’s Lupus Insight Prize. The $100,000…