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Shifting Health Policy Landscape Brings Opportunities, Responsibility to Advocate for Rheumatology

Joan M. Von Feldt, MD, MSEd, FACR, FACP  |  Issue: October 2016  |  

Joan M. Von Feldt, MD, MSEd, FACR, FACP, is president of the ACR and a professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also staff physician at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.

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