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ACR advocacy efforts advance despite pandemic
Representatives from the ACR’s advocacy team, including Ryan Jessee, MD, Blair Solow, MD, and Amanda Grimm Wiegrefe, MScHSRA, will provide updates on the ACR’s advocacy efforts and describe how rheumatologists can make their voices count during a Sunday session.
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Learn to recognize dermatologic changes in patients of color with rheumatic disease
Lisa Zickuhr, MD, will moderate a Saturday afternoon session that will explore the challenges of recognizing symptomatic skin changes in patients of color.
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Rheumatology Secrets & Pearls will deliver tips and tricks
Rheumatology’s top tips and tricks are back this year in an hour-long session packed with bite-sized pieces of practical information clinicians can use in the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of many rheumatic diseases. Sarah Dill, MD, will moderate the Sunday morning session.
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CARE sessions combine clinical updates and interactive participation
A trio of 2021 CARE sessions offers a unique combination of live clinical updates and interactive participation as each speaker presents cases and solicits your best guess for next steps. Eli Miloslavsky, MD, Luc Nguyen, MD, and Zsuzsanna H. McMahan, MD, MHS, provide a preview…
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Iris Colunga, MD, PhD: Pulse pressure as a predictor of carotid plaque
Iris Colunga, MD, PhD, will present the poster “Pulse Pressure as a Predictor of Carotid Plaque in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients” during Saturday morning’s Poster Session A.
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Akhil Sood, MD: SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in patients with rheumatic diseases
Akhil Sood, MD, will present the poster “Efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” during Saturday morning’s Poster Session A.
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Kerry Costello, PhD: Predicting medial knee cartilage worsening
Kerry Costello, PhD, will present the poster “Using Machine Learning to Predict Medial Knee Cartilage Worsening over 2 Years Using Gait and Physical Activity: The MOST Study” during Saturday morning’s Poster Session A.
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FDA representatives will provide updates on safety issues, pediatric rheumatology, package inserts
Representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will provide important updates at #ACR21. Michael Weisman, MD, and Yeruk (Lily) Mulugeta, PharmD, will moderate three sessions over two days focusing on safety issues, pediatric rheumatology, and the importance of bidirectional communication throughout the patient care…
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Charlotta Preger, MSc: Autoantigens in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
Charlotta Preger, MSc, will present the poster “Autoantigenic Properties Indicated for the Entire Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase Family in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies” during Saturday morning’s Poster Session A.
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Second virtual ACR Convergence remains first in rheumatology educational opportunities
ACR Convergence 2021 will build on the successes of last year’s virtual meeting while expanding engagement opportunities for participants, said Swamy Venuturupalli, MD, Chair of the ACR Education Committee.