This year’s global event offers an interactive, educational and exciting conference, with networking opportunities, insights into clinical and basic research and more.
A Unified Advocacy Voice for Rheumatology
One thing that became clear very quickly this past year was that the COVID-19 pandemic would change the way we deliver care to patients. What has not changed amid an evolving healthcare landscape is our driving focus to ensure our patients’ access to rheumatology care and the availability of state-of-the-art treatments. We know you share…
Racism As a Public Health Crisis
On March 29, Brandon Elliot walked up to a 65-year-old Filipino American woman near Times Square and kicked her in the chest. Footage from the security camera of a nearby luxury apartment building recorded the attack: Elliot shoved her to the ground, and then repeatedly kicked and stomped on her, while shouting, “You don’t belong…
New French Law Extends Benefits to Families of Healthcare Workers Who Contracted COVID-19 & Died During the Pandemic
According to the French newspaper, Le Monde, the French Assembly adopted the “mort pour le service de la République”—died in the service of the Republic—statute on May 27. President Emmanuel Macron says this new law is one way to support the families of personnel who die under exceptional circumstances, such as healthcare providers who died…
Yellow Card for the Yellow Card
Independence Day. I can’t wait. Generally, it’s not a holiday that carries a lot of meaning for me. Having grown up in New York and Boston, the smaller firework displays that take place in Baltimore fail to impress. Also, as a program director, the holiday falls in the middle of the new fellows’ first week…
Dr. Daniel L. Kastner Awarded the 2021 Crafoord Prize for Polyarthritis
On Feb. 1, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Daniel L. Kastner, MD, PhD, scientific director of the Division of Intramural Research of the National Human Genome Research Institute, where he is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Distinguished Investigator, was awarded the 2021 Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis “for having established the concept…
Rheum After 5: Dr. Garg Applies Coffee as an Art Medium
Some artists paint with oils or watercolors, others with acrylics. Shivani Garg, MD, MS, prefers Nescafé or Maxwell House coffee. A faculty member in the Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH), Madison, Dr. Garg learned this technique—painting with instant coffee mixed…
4 ARP Members Talk About Their Roads to Advocacy & Why It Matters
The Budget Control Act of 2011 cut Medicare physician payments by 2% across the board. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed into law in 2020, suspended this sequester (i.e., a cut in government spending) between May 1 and Dec. 31, 2020. In the Consolidated Appropriations Act, signed into law in December…
Medscape Survey Suggests 50% of Rheumatologists Experience Burnout
A new Medscape survey found that rheumatology has the second-highest burnout level among the 29 specialties included, with 50% of the rheumatology respondents saying they’re experiencing “burnout.” To which some rheumatologists are responding: Really? “I was quite surprised by this,” says Beth Jonas, MD, chief of the Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology Division at the University…
Rheum After 5: Dr. Stuart Kassan, Golf Enthusiast
About 10 years ago, Stuart S. Kassan, MD, FACP, MACR, was playing in a local golf tournament at the Denver Country Club. Each player had to tee off over a water hole in front of roughly 100 club members. His ball was the only one that landed in the water—twice. He was introduced to golf…
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