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The 2019 ACR Award Winners & Distinguished Fellows

  |  Issue: December 2019  |  

Carol Patton is a freelance writer based in Las Vegas.

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Masters Reunited

The 2019 ACR Award Winners & Distinguished FellowsATLANTA—During the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting, the immediate past physician editor of The Rheumatologist (TR), Simon Helfgott, MD, was honored by the ACR with the Master designation, along with 22 other outstanding individuals (see Part 1 of this series in the November issue). Dr. Helfgott shared this photo from the event with TR, saying:

Ron Laxer and I were fortunate to have been selected as Masters this year. The side story is that we have been great buddies for 52 years, starting in high school. We went to college together and then medical school. We parted ways when Ron chose pediatrics and I went into internal medicine, but later, we bonded over our love of rheumatology. It was really neat that we shared the stage yesterday [Nov. 9].

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Left: Ronald M. Laxer, MD, professor of pediatrics & medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto; The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Right: Simon Helfgott, MD, director of education & fellowship training, Division of Rheumatology & Inflammation, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

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