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Advocacy Highlights & Fall Treats: Reflections from the GAC Chair

Elizabeth "Blair" Solow, MD  |  Issue: November 2022  |  

If you made it this far, you care a lot, too. Head over to RheumPAC to invest in our seat at the table. To lend your voice, send a pre-written letter to your members of Congress from the Legislative Action Center, and encourage others to do so too.

Thank you as always to the hard-working GAC members, whose invaluable insights guides our agenda, and to our ACR staff team of extraordinary people who care a lot about how to make healthcare better.

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Wishing you a happy holiday season, and maybe an apple cider donut or two.

Elizabeth “Blair” Solow, MD, is chair of the Government Affairs Committee for the ACR and an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatic Diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

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