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Abstract Number: 907 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Five-Year Evolution of the Center of Excellence in Musculoskeletal Care and Education: A National Resource for the Continuum of Health Professions Education and Scholarship
Andrea Barker¹, J. Peter Beck², Grant Cannon³, Marissa Grotzke⁴, Scott Swasey^5,6, Curry L. Koening⁷, Dorota Lebiedz-Odrobina⁶, Yasuharu Okuda⁸ and Michael J. Battistone¹, ¹Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System and University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Orthopaedics, Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Division of Endocrinology, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System and University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Salt Lake City VA Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁶University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁷Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁸VHA SimLEARN National Center, Orlando, FL
Background/Purpose: In 2011, the Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Academic Affiliations funded the creation of the Center of Excellence (COE) in Musculoskeletal (MSK) Care and…
Abstract Number: 908 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impact of a National Training Program on Primary Care Providers Utilization of Knee MRI
Erica Jaffe¹, Andrea Barker², J. Peter Beck³, Grant Cannon⁴ and Michael J. Battistone², ¹Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System and University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System and University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Orthopaedics, Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has developed a national continuing professional development program to train primary care providers (PCPs) in the care…
Abstract Number: 909 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Two-Year Impact of a Continuing Professional Education Program to Train Primary Care Providers to Perform Arthrocentesis
Michael J. Battistone¹, Andrea Barker¹, J. Peter Beck², Phillip Lawrence³ and Grant Cannon⁴, ¹Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System and University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Orthopaedics, Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and Roseman University of Health Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: Initial reports of a local continuing professional education (CPE) program designed for primary care providers (PCPs) described an increase in in the number of…
Abstract Number: 910 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Training Adult Rheumatology Fellows in Young Adult Transition and Transfer Skills
Rebecca Sadun¹, Gary Maslow², Richard Chung³ and Lisa Criscione-Schreiber⁴, ¹Rheumatology Adult and Pediatric, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ²Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ³Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁴Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: The transition from pediatric to adult healthcare is a vulnerable time for adolescents and young adults (AYA) with chronic conditions. EULAR and the Pediatric…
Abstract Number: 911 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
How Well Do Rheumatology Fellows Manage Acute Infusion Reactions? a Pilot Curricular Intervention
Jason Weiner¹, Amanda M. Eudy² and Lisa Criscione-Schreiber³, ¹Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ²Duke University Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Infusible DMARDs are commonly prescribed in rheumatology and other fields. There are no published formal educational curricula rheumatology fellowship programs can use to teach…
Abstract Number: 912 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Has the Attractiveness of a Career in Rheumatology Changed for the Better? Comparison of Trends in the Rheumatology Fellowship Match from 2014 to 2017 with 2008 to 2013
Huynh Tran¹ and Richard Panush², ¹Special Project Manager, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²Rheumatology, Program Director, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatology has been a less attractive career choice than most other medical subspecialties for many years. The 2015 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)…
Abstract Number: 913 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
High Erythrocyte Levels of the n-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Linoleic Acid Are Associated with Lower Risk of Subsequent Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Southern European Nested Case-Control Study
Paola de Pablo¹, Dora Romaguera^2,3, Helena Fisk⁴, Philip Calder⁴, Anne-Marie Quirke⁵, Alison Cartwright⁵, Salvatore Panico⁶, Amalia Mattiello⁶, Diana Gavrila⁷, Carmen Navarro⁷, Carlotta Sacerdote⁸, Paolo Vineis^2,9, Rosario Tumino¹⁰, William Ollier¹¹, Dominique Michaud^2,12, Elio Riboli², Patrick Venables⁵ and Benjamin Fisher¹³, ¹University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ²Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ³CIBER-OBN (Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición), University Hospital Son Espases, Palma, Spain, ⁴University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, ⁵Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁶Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy, ⁷Murcia Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain, ⁸Città della Salute e della Scienza University-Hospital, Turin, Italy, ⁹Human Genetics Foundation, Turin, Italy, ¹⁰"Civic - M.P.Arezzo" Hospital, Ragusa, Italy, ¹¹Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹²Tufts University Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹³Rheumatology Research Group, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Long-chain n-3 (also known as omega-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), especially eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA; 20:5n-3) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; 22:6n-3), have long-been considered to…
Abstract Number: 914 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Occupational Exposure to Combustion Products and Risk of Developing Rheumatoid Arthritis
Anna Ilar¹, Pernilla Wiebert^1,2, Saedis Saevarsdottir³, Johan Askling^4,5, Per Gustavsson^1,2 and Lars Alfredsson^1,2, ¹The Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Stockholm County Council, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Rheumatology unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Studies have suggested a potential association between traffic pollutants and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but findings have been inconclusive. We therefore assessed the risk of…
Abstract Number: 915 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pesticide Exposure and Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in an Urban Population of Predominantly African-American Women
Jessica Williams¹, Shun-Chiao Chang¹, Corine Sinnette¹, Susan Malspeis², Christine G. Parks³, Elizabeth Karlson¹, Patricia Fraser¹ and Karen H. Costenbader¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Several studies have reported an association between exposure to pesticides and the risk of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, this association has not yet…
Abstract Number: 916 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Long Term Effects of Early Childhood Thymectomy: A Population-Based Cohort Study of Association with Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, Infectious and Atopic Diseases
Judith Gudmundsdottir^1,2, Jonas Söderling³, Håkan Berggren⁴, Sólveig Óskarsdóttir⁵, Martin Neovius⁶, Olof Stephansson³ and Olov Ekwall^7,8, ¹Dept of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, The Institute of Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ²Children's Medical Center, Landspítali University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland, ³Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Dept of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Dept of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁵Dept of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Sciences, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁶Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁷Dept. of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden, ⁸Dept of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
Background/Purpose: The thymus is the site of T cell maturation and selection and thus of vital importance for the development of immunological tolerance. Early thymectomy…
Abstract Number: 917 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prospective Association of Metabolic Syndrome with Incident Symptomatic Interphalangeal Osteoarthritis but Not Thumb Based or Erosive Hand Osteoarthritis
Charles Eaton¹, Lena Franziska Schaefer², Ida K. Haugen³, Mary Roberts⁴, Bing Lu⁵, Stacy Smith⁶, Jeffrey Duryea², Jeffrey B. Driban⁷ and Timothy E. McAlindon⁸, ¹Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Warren Alpert Medical School, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, ²Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴Center for Primary Care and Prevention, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI, ⁵Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Radiology/Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging & Intervention, Brigham & Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁷Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Symptomatic Hand Osteoarthritis (SxHOA) is a painful, destructive and deforming polyarticular disorder that is highly prevalent. The epidemiology of incident SxHOA and its association…
Abstract Number: 918 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Development and Validation of a Clinical Rule to Facilitate Recognition of Clinical Arthritis By General Practitioners
Robin M ten Brinck¹, Bastiaan T van Dijk², Hanna W van Steenbergen¹, Saskia le Cessie³, Mattijs E Numans⁴ and Annette H.M. van der Helm-van Mil¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Medical statistics and Epidemiology, Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Early treatment of rheumatoid arthritis requires the early detection of arthritis. This is generally done by joint examination and difficult for general practitioners (GPs).…
Abstract Number: 919 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
HLA Type Imputation in the Genome Research in African American Scleroderma Patients (GRASP) Cohort Reveals Strong Associations of African Ancestry MHC Class II Types with Scleroderma and Lack of Class I HLA Type Associations
Elaine F. Remmers¹, Pravitt Gourh², Steven Boyden³, Nadia D. Morgan⁴, Ami A. Shah⁴, Adebowale Adeyemo¹, Amy Bentley¹, Mary A. Carns⁵, Settara C. Chandrasekharappa¹, Lorinda Chung⁶, Lindsey A. Criswell⁷, Chris T. Derk⁸, Robyn T. Domsic⁹, Ayo Doumatey¹, Heather Gladue¹⁰, Avram Goldberg¹¹, Jessica K. Gordon¹², Vivien M Hsu¹³, Reem Jan¹⁴, Dinesh Khanna¹⁵, Maureen D. Mayes¹⁶, Thomas A. Medsger Jr.¹⁷, Paula S. Ramos¹⁸, Marcin A. Trojanowski¹⁹, Lesley A. Saketkoo²⁰, Elena Schiopu¹⁵, Victoria K. Shanmugam²¹, Daniel Shriner¹, Richard M. Silver²², Virginia D. Steen²³, Antonia Valenzuela²⁴, John Varga²⁵, Charles Rotimi¹, Fredrick M. Wigley²⁶, Francesco Boin²⁷ and Daniel L. Kastner²⁸, ¹National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ²NIAMS-Rheumatology, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, MD, ³National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Scleroderma Program, Chicago, IL, ⁶Rheumatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, ⁷Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁸Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁹Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Arthritis and Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ¹¹NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹²Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹³University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey--Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, ¹⁴Medicine, Rheumatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ¹⁵University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁶University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ¹⁷Department of Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁸Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²⁰Rheumatology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, ²¹Rheumatology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, ²²Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²³Rheumatology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ²⁴Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ²⁵Rheumatology and Dermatology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Scleroderma Program, Chicago, IL, ²⁶Rheum Div/Mason F Lord, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²⁷Rheumatology, University California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²⁸Inflammatory Disease Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: The Genome Research in African American Scleroderma Patients (GRASP) consortium was created to obtain a collection of African American (AA) scleroderma patients to facilitate…
Abstract Number: 920 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Area-Level Predictors of Medication Nonadherence Among U.S. Medicaid Beneficiaries with Lupus: A Multilevel Study
Candace H. Feldman¹, Karen H. Costenbader², Daniel H. Solomon³, S.V. Subramanian⁴ and Ichiro Kawachi⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ⁵Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Among lupus patients, adherence to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), the backbone of therapy, remains suboptimal. Individual-level factors, including younger age, poverty, and black race, have been…
Abstract Number: 921 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Discordant Patient-Physician Assessments of Disease Activity and Its Persistence Adversely Impact Quality of Life and Work Productivity in United States Hispanics with Rheumatoid Arthritis
George Karpouzas¹, Sera Ramadan², Chelsie Cost³, Taylor Draper⁴, Elizabeth Hernandez³ and Sarah Ormseth³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ²Internal Medicine, Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, CA, ³Rheumatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ⁴Psychology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA
Background/Purpose: The impact of discordant patient-physician assessments of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) activity on quality of life is largely unknown. We examined the prevalence and stability…

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