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The Forward View in Rheumatology

July 9, 2012 • By Kimberly Retzlaff

Future leaders convene at the ACR/Arthritis Foundation Rheumatology Research Workshop to discuss cutting-edge research and career development.... [Read More]

Strike While the Iron Is Hot

October 7, 2011 • By David Borenstein, MD

How The ACR Lupus Initiative is advancing rheumatology... [Read More]

Patients Add Power to Research Initiatives

October 7, 2011 • By John Kirwan, MD

A look at how OMERACT involves people with rheumatic disease in its studies... [Read More]

Journey from Early Career Grant Recipient to Preceptor

August 1, 2011 • By Staff

Elaine Husni, MD, MPH, knew from an early age that she wanted to be a doctor. Along the way, she relied on the support of mentors and the ACR Research and Education Foundation Awards and Grants program to help establish her career in rheumatology, eventually landing her in her current role as the department vice chair for the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Center at the Cleveland Clinic.... [Read More]

The REF: A Facilitator of Mentoring

March 18, 2011 • By By E. William St.Clair, MD

The ACR Research and Education Foundation (REF) has made a substantial commitment to supporting career development through its many grant programs, such as the preceptorships for medical and graduate students and residents, the Rheumatology Scientist Development Award, the Rheumatology Investigator Award, and the Career Development Bridge Funding Award, provided in collaboration with the Arthritis Foundation.... [Read More]

Omeract How to Get into the “Act”

April 1, 2010 • By Peter Brooks, MD, Maarten Boers, MD,PhD, MSc, Lee S. Simon, MD, Vibeke Strand, MD,and Peter Tugwell, MD

Meet this international organization that focuses on rheumatology outcome measures... [Read More]

A Preceptorship Comes Full Circle

December 1, 2009 • By Staff

Ephraim P. Engleman, MD, has spent his career drawing attention to the field of rheumatology. Widely regarded as one of the founders of the modern practice of rheumatology, this 98-year-old director of the Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is still working hard at promoting the field.... [Read More]

ARHP Angle: We Need a Few Good Leaders!

August 1, 2009 • By Pamela Degotardi, PhD

Flying back from Cincinnati, where I’d been attending a meeting of the ARHP Committee on Nominations, it occurred to me that some members might be intrigued by the process of how ARHP officers and committee and subcommittee chairs are selected. While I do realize that some members aren’t interested in the structural organization of ARHP, I know some may ask, “Why was she selected and not me?”... [Read More]

Mentoring Makes the World Go ‘Round

May 1, 2009 • By Marian T. Hannan, DSc, MPH, and Catherine L. Backman, PhD, OT(C)

After a decade each of serving on many committees and presidential working groups, our work in the ARHP is not over. In fact, we have discovered that our educational and professional motivation to improve research and educate our students has nearly one hundred-percent overlap with the ongoing goals of the ARHP to support the graduate students and young investigators and to sponsor new members. The ARHP offers several opportunities for you to mentor a student, colleague, or non-member through the ARHP Graduate Student Award Program, the Member-Get-a-Member Campaign, and the REF grants programs for health professionals.... [Read More]

Help Patients with Scleroderma Manage Musculoskeletal and Functional Limitations

February 1, 2009 • By Staff

On March 10, Janet Poole, PhD, OTR, professor of the occupational therapy graduate program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, will continue the ARHP’s Audioconference/Webcast Series with the management of scleroderma. Dr. Poole received her BS in occupational therapy from Colorado State University, her MA degree in educational psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her PhD in motor learning/motor control from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Poole’s research interest is in scleroderma and the functional impact of the disease on the tasks of daily living, oral hygiene, parenting, and employment. She has conducted a number of studies examining rehabilitation interventions with people who have scleroderma and, with a colleague, is developing a self-management program for these patients. She has also authored several textbook chapters on rehabilitation for people with scleroderma.... [Read More]