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The ACR, ARHP Keep Members, Patients’ Priorities on Congressional Legislative Slate

Sharad Lakhanpal, MBBS, MD, & Afton Hassett, PsyD  |  Issue: June 2017  |  

To best serve our membership, and by extension our patients, it might be wise to follow an old proverb from India: “If you live on the river, befriend the crocodile.”

Sharad Lakhanpal, MBBS, MD, is in private practice at Rheumatology Associates and a clinical professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, both in Dallas, where he has lived and worked since 1986. He is also the 80th president of the ACR (2016–17).

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Afton L. Hassett, PsyD, is president of the ARHP, a clinical psychologist and an associate research scientist in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan.

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