Kanika Monga, MD, FACR, is a rheumatologist at Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas. She is also an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, and Houston Methodist Academic Institute, and adjunct faculty at Texas A&M University School of Engineering Medicine.
Volunteering is a great way to give back and can be truly meaningful. Myriad worthwhile causes exist, so it can be hard to choose among them, but donating time to ACR and ARP committees helps promote rheumatology practice and brings awareness to rheumatic diseases. The College relies on volunteers to help achieve strategic priorities, promote…
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are the focus of a new ACR/ARP subcommittee of the Collaborative Initiatives (COIN) Special Committee. The 13-member group will explore strategies to increase diversity in the rheumatology workforce pipeline and reduce implicit bias in such organizational processes as speaker recruitment and abstract review. “There is a new awareness at the…
The group’s goals include workforce diversification and inclusive speaker recruitment.
Rheumatology training programs adopt computerized fellowship selection