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Reading RHEUM

Robyn T. Domsic, MD; Kathleen A. Haines, MD; Daniel H. Solomon, MD, MPH;  |  

Handpicked Reviews of Contemporary Literature

Better Physicians—One Student at a Time

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For Maribeth Morral, a third-year medical student at Penn State College of Medicine in State College, Pa., and ACR Research and Education Foundation (REF) Preceptorship winner, her first exposure to rheumatology was the product of a chance encounter. In the first year of medical school at Penn State, students are assigned to track a chronically ill patient throughout the year as a learning experience. Morral’s patient happened to be an 11-year-old girl diagnosed with juvenile RA.

Expanding Lupus Awareness through Education

Collaborative Initiatives Department Staff  |  

With funding support from the CDC, in this ACR initiative, rheumatology fellows in training deliver lupus education sessions to medical personnel & rheumatologists connect with medical colleagues in underserved rural areas.

The ACR Releases New Lupus Nephritis Guideline

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At a session of ACR Convergence 2024, speakers shared key elements of the new guideline on the screening, treatment and overall management of lupus nephritis in children and adults.1 This guideline attempts to balance the risks of medication side effects with the important goal of preserving kidney function. This is the ACR’s first lupus guideline…

ACR Releases New Guideline for Management of SLE at ACR 2025

Mithu Maheswaranathan, MD  |  

Updating the last iteration in 1999, the new ACR Guideline for Management of SLE was unveiled at ACR Convergence 2025, providing rheumatologists an organ-based approach for therapeutic options for specific lupus manifestations.