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The ACR’s Congressional Advocacy Produces Results

David I. Daikh, MD, PhD  |  Issue: June 2018  |  

These days, the need for personal outreach from all of us only seems to grow. It’s important that we all continue to engage and educate those who are making decisions on our behalf on the issues that impact our specialty and our patients. As Rep. Burgess asked, “If we don’t advocate for rheumatology and for our patients, who is going to do that?”

Learn how RheumPAC can help advance our issues in D.C. Go to www.rheumatology.org/advocacy.

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David I. Daikh, MD, PhD, is the 81st ACR president. Dr. Daikh serves as the director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Training Program at the University of California, San Francisco and as chief of the Rheumatology Division at the SFVA Medical Center, where he directs the Rheumatology Clinic.

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