The 2024 ARP President’s & Merit Awards

Since 2005, she has served as faculty in the University of Washington School of Nursing, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, teaching advanced practice nursing courses, leading skills-based labs, precepting and mentoring graduating NPs interested in rheumatology.

Dr. Dewing’s contributions to the field of rheumatology have been through her dedication and support of the interprofessional team. Throughout her career, she has strived to highlight the importance and best practice use of the full interprofessional team to improve outcomes for patients not only in her day-to-day clinical practice and teaching roles, but also through international exchange partnering with colleagues in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and across Europe.

Since accepting her first position in rheumatology, Dr. Dewing has been involved in the ACR/ARP. She is a past president of ARP and has served as chair and member of numerous committees, task forces and workgroups throughout the College over the last two decades. These include the ACR Executive Committee and Board of Directors, ARP Executive Committee, Rheumatology Research Foundation Board of Directors, ACR and ARP Nominations and Appointments committees, Workforce Solutions, ACR Committee on Finance, Volunteers to Expand Rheumatology Access (VERA), Committee on Rheumatologic Care, ARP Practice Committee, ACR Committee on Education, ARP Annual Meeting Planning Committee and Abstract Oversight Committee, Advanced Practice Skills Training Task Force and Clinical Focus Course Task Force.

Dr. Dewing’s passion for supporting and training new NPs and physician assistants (PAs) in rheumatology has been demonstrated by her commitment to creating educational content, as an invited speaker at the ACR annual meeting, serving as an author on the Fundamentals of Rheumatology Course and as an assistant scientific editor for the Advanced Rheumatology Course. She has also participated in The Training Rheum and NP/PA-specific initiatives with the Lupus Initiative.

ARP Merit Awards

Dr. Bartlett

ARP Master Award

The ARP’s highest honor—the Master Award—went to Susan J. Bartlett, PhD, MARP, for her outstanding contributions to the field of rheumatology over nearly 30 years. Dr. Bartlett is a professor of medicine at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, adjunct professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, and senior scientist with Arthritis Research Canada.

Dr. Bartlett received her master’s degree in counseling psychology from McGill University, a PhD in clinical psychology from Syracuse University, New York, and completed postdoctoral training in clinical trials and behavioral epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, where she served on the faculty from 1998 until 2008 when she relocated to McGill.