Editor Keri Losavio has been a professional editor and writer in the medical and financial fields for 20 years and joined the Wiley team in February 2014. She has written for and edited newsletters, magazines, personal memoirs, book proposals, dissertations, textbooks and more.
Studies show that patients with difficult-to-treat axial spondyloarthritis had more disease activity and greater peripheral involvement, with extra musculoskeletal manifestations and fibromyalgia. The ACR Convergence 2024 session on Difficult-to-Manage Spondyloarthritis will focus on patients for whom first- and second-line therapies have failed or who have persistent extra-axial manifestations of disease despite these treatment options. The…
In a session on a current ACR project on musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS), Gurjit Kaeley, MBBS, RhMSUS, MRCP, division chief, professor of medicine, fellowship program director and program director for musculoskeletal ultrasound at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, will present information on proposed guidance related to rheumatoid arthritis. The ACR places a high…
The ACR places a high priority on developing relevant, practical guidance for the rheumatology community. A current ACR project on musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) will be discussed in the ACR Convergence 2024 session, Proposed ACR Guidance for Use of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatoid and Psoriatic Arthritis, on Saturday, Nov. 16. In the session, Veena K. Ranganath,…
In patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), their sex matters. In the session Sex Differences in Psoriatic Arthritis, Laura Coates, MD, PhD, of the University of Oxford, and Lihi Eder, MD, PhD, of the University of Toronto, will discuss sex-related differences in clinical features, disease course, treatment response and pain perception in patients with PsA. The…
What research on psoriatic arthritis to be presented at ACR Convergence 2024 has the greatest potential for a positive impact on clinical care, treatment options or serve as the basis for future research? That’s the question The Rheumatologist asked David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhD—our founding editor—to consider. With thousands of research abstracts to be presented…
As part of the Review Course on Friday Nov. 15 at ACR Convergence 2024, Ana-Maria Orbai, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine and director of the Psoriatic Arthritis Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will present a session reviewing the management of psoriatic arthritis. Dr. Orbai earned her medical degree from the Iuliu…
Sheldon Mark Cooper, MD, MACR, professor of medicine, and a colleague and mentor throughout my career at the University of Vermont, Burlington, passed away June 6, after a long illness. Dr. Cooper was born in The Bronx, New York, in 1942, earning his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1967. He…
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), comprising ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and nonradiographic axial SpA, is the main form of chronic inflammatory arthritis affecting the axial skeleton. What research in axial spondyloarthrits to be presented at ACR Convergence 2024 has the greatest potential for a positive impact on clinical care, treatment options or serve as the basis for future…
“SLE has long been a disease with many clinical manifestations but few treatment options,” says Physician Editor Bharat Kumar, explaining why he thinks this article is a must-read. “That’s rapidly changing with advances in our knowledge of lupus, especially in the role of B-cells in triggering the onset and perpetuating disease activity of lupus.”
With thousands of research abstracts and posters being presented at ACR Convergence 2024, Nov. 14–19, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., figuring out which research is important today, which could prove important in the future, what has the potential to affect clinical care or prove the basis for future research is…