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Research Rheum

Bridge Funding Award Keeps Researcher on the Path to Her Passion

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On June 25, 2008, the American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation received a letter from Sujata Sarkar, MD, one of the first recipients of the ACR REF/Arthritis Foundation Bridge Funding Award. In that letter Dr. Sarkar wrote, “I am very thankful to you … This award has come to me at a very crucial and vulnerable time in my academic career as a junior researcher.” The crucial and vulnerable time to which Dr. Sarkar refers is the time when she would need to search for alternative funding to pay for her rheumatology research career—or leave academia altogether.

Rheum to Learn

Terry Hartnett  |  

The ARHP’s new NP/PA rheumatology training program will provide a boost to the workforce

Get Involved!

David A. Fox, MD  |  

A guide for applying to volunteer positions with the ACR

The Brain in Lupus

Michael Lockshin, MD, and Liza Kozora, PhD  |  

The Mary Kirkland Center lupus conference offers insight into cognitive aspects of SLE

Reading Rheum

Kathleen A. Haines, MD  |  

Handpicked Reviews of Contemporary Literature

Why the REF?

Leslie Crofford, MD  |  

I am delighted to use the occasion of this inaugural REF president’s column to share a vision of the future and describe the exciting developments that will allow us to meet the challenges ahead. Although most of you know that the ACR is associated with a foundation, I find that many of our members wonder what the REF does that is different from the mission and activities of the ACR and the ARHP. In the simplest terms, the ACR and the ARHP are engaged in improving the quality of our professional lives as rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals, while the core mission of the REF is to ensure the future of our specialty.