Professional Topics

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The Pathway to Success

David A. Fox, MD | August 1, 2008

Collaboration with our partners is key to ensuring a bright future for the ACR

Opportunities Abound at Annual Meeting

From the College | July 1, 2008

The 2008 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting will offer multiple opportunities for attendees to increase their knowledge of rheumatic diseases. New educational programs and returning favorites will give attendees multiple chances to enhance their education and make good use of their time at the meeting.

REF and AF Partner to Provide an Additional “Bridge Funding”

From the College | July 1, 2008

Fostering promising investigators is imperative to the future of rheumatology, so when the ACR Research and Education Foundation (REF) board of directors discovered that outstanding applicants were not being funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) K-series grant program (the NIH’s career development award program) due to budgetary constraints, the REF quickly called a meeting with the Arthritis Foundation (AF) and the NIH to discuss a solution.

Help Find a Cure for RA

From the College | July 1, 2008

The ACR REF established the Within Our Reach: Finding a Cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) campaign in 2006 with one goal in mind: to find a cure for RA.

Where Do RheumPAC Donations Go?

From the College | July 1, 2008

RheumPAC has been a standing committee of the ACR since 2007. The PAC was established to increase the ACR’s presence in Washington, D.C., and is charged with managing the contributions to congressional campaigns, as well as soliciting the membership for funds to increase the purse for these contributions.

Letters to the Editor

Staff | July 1, 2008

Feedback from our Readers

Learning From the Giants of Medicine

David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhD | July 1, 2008

Medical training has become easier—but is that an improvement?

Drug Safety

David A. Fox, MD | July 1, 2008

What can the ACR do?

A Ghost Appears

David A. Fox, MD | June 1, 2008

We need to address the specter of ghostwriting in medical research

American College of Rheumatology (ACR) on Capitol Hill

From the College | May 1, 2008

“By tomorrow night, there will be so many more people on Capitol Hill who know—and are sensitive to—rheumatology and the issues that impact you and your patients. There is no substitute for what you are doing,” says Martha M. Kendrick, a partner at Patton Boggs, LLP, the ACR’s lobbying firm. This is what she told the physician, health professional, and patient participants of the ACR’s 2008 “Advocates for Arthritis” advocacy event—termed a fly-in—before they took their personal stories to the lawmakers on Capitol Hill.