ACR Convergence 2025| Tips for Starting Your Own Rheumatology Practice

An official publication of the ACR and the ARP serving rheumatologists and rheumatology professionals

Patient Perspective

Patients’ Voices Ring Out

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Research & patients reap benefits when patients with rheumatic conditions get involved in patient-facing organizations & in clinical research planning.

Rheuminations: The Tenacity of Hope

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It’s dark. It’s cold. And it’s 5 p.m. here in Iowa. If that sounds rather bleak to you, I wouldn’t blame you. But to Stella, my 12-year-old canine companion, it’s a wonderland. She’s half-Shetland sheepdog and half-American Eskimo, so the colder and snowier it is, the more she feels at home. And although I do…

Lupus & Nightmares

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Dr. David D’Cruz’s research attempts to help patients make sense of chronic nightmares, an understudied symptom of lupus.

‘Be Proactive & Stay Active’: Advice to Patients

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Magdalena “Maggie” Cadet, MD, a rheumatologist in New York City, remembers learning about the relationship between physical activity and bone health at a young age. She was 5 years old when she first began taking ballet, jazz and tap-dancing lessons. At 9, she became a competitive figure skater and practiced both dance and ice skating…

Flipbooks: Patient and Family Education Tools

Aryan Gopinath & Srilatha Kothandaraman, MD  |  

A school science project demonstrates that flipbooks can be a useful educational tool for patients and their families to learn about rheumatic conditions and their treatment.

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…