Abstracts tagged "Education"

Abstract Number: 1069 • ACR Convergence 2025
Strengthening Rheumatology Workforce Capacity and Impact on Patient Care in Louisiana: Expanding Fellowship Training Opportunities Through Strategic Partnerships
Luke Sharrock¹, Alexandra Anderson², Stephen Lindsey³ and Milena Vukelic⁴, ¹Louisiana State University Health Science Center New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, ²Louisiana State University Health Science Center New Orleans, Phoenix, AZ, ³LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans, Baton Rouge, LA, ⁴Rheumatology Fellowship Program Director Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA
Background/Purpose: Louisiana, along with other states, has long experienced significant challenges in accessing specialty care, particularly in the field of rheumatology. Limited availability of trained…
Abstract Number: 2179 • ACR Convergence 2025
Educational online webinars of European Reference Network (ERN) on Rare and Complex Connective Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ReCONNET) for patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals: six years’ experience
Emanuele Gotelli¹, Rosanna Campitiello¹, Eric HACHULLA², Vanessa Smith³, João Eurico Fonseca⁴, Tadej Avcin⁵, Gabriele Simonini⁶, Silvia Aguilera⁷, Lisa Matthews⁸, Charissa Frank⁹, Wiebke Lautré¹⁰, Monica Testoni¹¹, Diana Marinello¹¹, Rosaria Talarico¹², Marta Mosca¹³ and Maurizio Cutolo¹⁴, ¹University of Genoa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy, ²CHU Lille, Département de Médecine Interne et Immunologie Clinique, Centre de Référence des Maladies Auto-Immunes et Auto-Inflammatoires Rares du Nord, Nord-Ouest, Méditerranée et Guadeloupe (CeRAINOM), Lille, France, Lille, France, ³Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium, ⁴Faculdade Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, ULS Santa Maria, Centro Académico Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁵University Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ⁶Rheumatology Unit, ERN-ReCONNET center, Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, Firenze, Firenze, Italy, ⁷Spanish Antiphospholipid Association, Alicante, Spain, ⁸Relapsing Polychondritis Awareness and Support, London, United Kingdom, ⁹Flemish Association for Hereditary Connective Tissue Disorders, Koersel, Belgium, ¹⁰CHU Bordeaux Pellegrin, Centre de Références Maladies Auto-Immunes Systémiques Rares, Bordeaux, France, ¹¹ERN ReCONNET, Pisa, Italy, ¹²Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ¹³University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ¹⁴University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Background/Purpose: The European Reference Network on Connective Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ERN ReCONNET), founded in 2017 by the European Union (EU) Commission, aimed to improve…
Abstract Number: 0652 • ACR Convergence 2025
Evolution and Readiness: Preparing for Cell Therapy in Lupus Trials, A LuCIN Network Evaluation
Brandon Jackson¹, Saira Sheikh², Roberto Caricchio³, Taylor Irons⁴, Maria Dall'Era⁵, Amit Saxena⁶, Alfred Kim⁷, Jose Rubio⁸, Sasha Bernatsky⁹, David Goddard¹⁰, Fotios Koumpouras¹¹, Aimee Williams¹², Maya Merrell¹³, Jennifer Meriwether¹⁴ and Stacie Bell¹⁵, ¹Lupus Therapeutics, Miami, FL, ²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, ⁴Lupus Therapeutics, Houston, TX, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, ⁶NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁷Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ⁸University of Alabama at Birmingham, Hoover, AL, ⁹Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰NYU Langone Grossman SOM, Brooklyn, NY, ¹¹Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ¹²Lupus Therapeutics, Raleigh, NC, ¹³Lupus Therapeutics, Charleston, SC, ¹⁴Lupus Therapeutics, Westminster, CO, ¹⁵Lupus Therapeutics, Lakewood, CO
Background/Purpose: Lupus Therapeutics (LT), the clinical affiliate of the Lupus Research Alliance, oversees the premier North American Lupus Clinical Investigators Network (LuCIN). As cell therapy…
Abstract Number: 2177 • ACR Convergence 2025
A Rheumatologic Ultrasound (RhUS) Educational Framework: Expert Consensus on RhUS Skills for Adult Rheumatology Fellows in the United States
Christine Parsons¹, irene Ma², Amy Cannella³, Eugene Kissin⁴, Paul DeMarco⁵, Midori Nishio⁶, Edward Oberle⁷, Catherine Bakewell⁸, Ralf Thiele⁹, Anthony M. Reginato¹⁰, Norman Madsen¹¹, Jonathan Samuels¹², Patricia Vega-Fernandez¹³, Clara Lin¹⁴, Marcy Bolster¹⁵ and Minna Kohler¹⁶, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, ³University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴Boston University, Newton, MA, ⁵Mobile Medical Care, Olney, MD, ⁶John Muir Specialty Medical Group, Lafayette, CA, ⁷Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁸Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁹University of Rochester, PITTSFORD, NY, ¹⁰Brown University, Providence, RI, ¹¹URMC, Rochester, NY, ¹²NYU Langone, Rye Brook, NY, ¹³Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ¹⁴Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, ¹⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Concord, MA, ¹⁶Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Over the past decade, point-of care ultrasound (POCUS) has expanded rapidly within fellowship training programs. There is strong interest in rheumatology ultrasound (RhUS) education…
Abstract Number: 0630 • ACR Convergence 2025
Development, Validation and Performance of a Patient Knowledge Assessment Tool for Assessing the Immediate and Short-term Impact of an Information Course in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ranjan Gupta, Rudra Prosad Goswami and Anju Mohan, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Background/Purpose: Long-term outcomes in rheumatic diseases can be improved by improving patients’ knowledge, beliefs and perception about their disease. However, there is a lack of…
Abstract Number: 0349 • ACR Convergence 2024
Impact of the Stanford University Chronic Pain Self-Management Education Program on Pain Severity, Pain Self-Efficacy, and Pain Disability in a Population with a High Prevalence of Arthritis
Dina Jones¹, Louise Murphy², Ranjita Misra¹, Teresa Brady³, Sijin Wen¹, Dana Guglielmo⁴, Maura Robinson¹, Samantha Shawley-Brzoska¹, Chong Li¹, Alison Vargovich⁵, Megan Burkart⁶ and Richard Vaglienti¹, ¹West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, ²Consultant, Halifax, NS, Canada, ³Clarity Consulting and Communications, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Consultant, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Private Practice, Buffalo, NY, ⁶West Virginia Unviverstiy, Morgantown, WV
Background/Purpose: In 2021, 51.6 million (20.9%) US adults reported chronic pain (CP). Arthritis is a leading cause of CP. The Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Program…
Abstract Number: 1308 • ACR Convergence 2024
Measuring the Educational Impact of a Collaboration Between RheumMadness and TheMednet
Nina Couette¹, Herveen Kaur Singh², Nadine Housri³, Eric Wilson⁴, Benjamin Lueck⁵, Sabahat Usmani⁶, Laura Arneson⁷, Meredith Balbach⁸, Lauren Phillips⁹, John Kellogg⁵, Courtney Bair¹⁰, Michael Macklin¹¹, Iman Qaiser¹², Amanda Rodriguez¹³, Akrithi Garren¹⁴, Matthew Sparks¹⁵, Lisa Criscione-Schreiber⁵, Guy Katz¹⁶, David Leverenz¹⁵ and Melissa Briones¹⁷, ¹Genesis Healthcare System, Columbus, OH, ²theMednet, New York, NY, ³Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁴Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ⁵Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ⁶WEISS Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, ⁷Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁸Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ⁹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁰Duke Univerisity, Durham, ¹¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ¹²Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Health Services Authority, McKinney, TX, ¹³Main Line Health, Wynnewood, PA, ¹⁴MedStar/Georgetown Washington Hospital Center, Silver Spring, MD, ¹⁵Duke University, Durham, NC, ¹⁶Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁷Loyola University, Maywood, IL
Background/Purpose: theMednet.org is an online educational forum in which physicians submit clinical questions that are answered by experts in the field. RheumMadness is an online…
Abstract Number: 0351 • ACR Convergence 2024
Empowering Lupus Communities: Evaluating a National Peer Support Program for Lupus Teen, Young Adult Patients and Their Families
Giselle Rodriguez, LCSW¹, Priscilla Calvache¹, Lillian Mendez², Kimberly Cabrera¹, Roberta Horton¹, Lisa Imundo³ and Jillian Rose-Smith¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, Carteret, NJ, ³New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Campus, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Research shows that peer support groups effectively provide emotional support, enhance knowledge, & improve coping for chronic illnesses. An evaluation of a bilingual hospital…
Abstract Number: 1311 • ACR Convergence 2024
“A Fellow-Driven Voluntary Initiative in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training: Interest Does Not Equal Attendance”
David DeFrancisco¹ and Melissa Griffith², ¹University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ²University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: There is growing adoption of dedicated musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) training in rheumatology fellowships. However, the lack of established ACGME MSUS training requirements and competencies…
Abstract Number: 0371 • ACR Convergence 2024
This Is Caring: Enhancing Patient Education Materials for Individuals with Morphea Through Qualitative Inquiry
Jennifer Foster¹, Robin Higashi², Priya Sarlashkar¹ and Heidi Jacobe¹, ¹The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Dermatology, Dallas, TX, ²2UT Southwestern Medical Center, Peter O’Donnell Jr School of Public Health, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Patient education materials (PEMs) are essential for conveying disease and treatment information, empowering patients to actively participate in their care. However, PEMs for rare…
Abstract Number: 1402 • ACR Convergence 2024
Addressing Unmet Needs in Cannabis and Hemp by Improving Knowledge and Data Collection
Jahan Marcu¹, Philip Molloy², Kayla Pray³ and Teresa Simon⁴, ¹Marcu Enterprises/ Physicians Research Center, Jersey City, NJ, ²Physicians Research Center,LLC, Carver, MA, ³Physicians Research Center,LLC, Farmingdale, NJ, ⁴Physicians Research Center,LLC, Toms River, NJ
Background/Purpose: Cannabis and its derivatives are increasingly integrated into treatments for rheumatic diseases, yet there is a significant lack of evidence and systematic data collection…
Abstract Number: 0372 • ACR Convergence 2024
Readability Analysis of the American College of Rheumatology Patient Education Material
Quynh Giao Nguyen, Arianna Moss and Priyanka Iyer, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA
Background/Purpose: Patient education materials are an important resource to improve health education. According to the American Medical Association (AMA), education materials should not be written above a 6th grade…
Abstract Number: 1405 • ACR Convergence 2024
Perceived Healthcare Discrimination Among Individuals with Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Analysis
Titilayo Adeniran¹, Bertilia Trieu², Sandra Goldsmith¹ and Laura Robbins¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal conditions, including osteoarthritis (OA), osteoporosis (OP), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and chronic pain, significantly burden individuals' health and well-being. These conditions often lead to…
Abstract Number: 0455 • ACR Convergence 2024
Contraception Counseling for Patients with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMDs) at a Tertiary Care Rheumatology Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project
Ikwinder Preet Kaur¹, Gurjit Kaeley², Cristine Arcilla³, Ngun Par⁴ and Thway Myant⁵, ¹University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, ²UF COM-J, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, ³University of Florida Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, ⁴University of Florida Jacksonville Physicians Inc, Jacksonville, ⁵UF Jacksonville, Mia, FL
Background/Purpose: RMD patients are at increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes either from the active disease itself or the use of immunosuppressants incompatible with pregnancy.…
Abstract Number: 1414 • ACR Convergence 2024
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Sjögren’s Disease Peripheral Nervous System Manifestations
Robert Fox¹, Anahita Deboo², Matthew Baker³, Stamatina Danielides⁴, Eduardo de Sousa⁵, Julie Frantsve Hawley⁶, Brent Goodman⁷, Katherine Hammitt⁶, Jennifer King⁸, Matt Makara⁶, Steven Mandel⁹, Ghaith Noaiseh¹⁰, Pantelis Pavlakis¹¹, George Sarka¹², Arun Varadhachary¹³, Daniel Wallace¹⁴, Robert Hal Scofield¹⁵, Nancy Carteron¹⁶ and Steven Carsons¹⁷, ¹Rheumatology Clinic, San Diego, CA, ²Temple University, Philadelphia, ³Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, ⁴Vcu, Glen Allen, VA, ⁵Mercy, Moore, OK, ⁶Sjogren's Foundation, Reston, VA, ⁷Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁸UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Hofstra, Hempstead, ¹⁰University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, ¹¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹²UCLA, Laguna Hills, CA, ¹³Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, ¹⁴Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Studio City, CA, ¹⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁶University of California, Berkeley & San Francisco, Angwin, CA, ¹⁷NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY
Background/Purpose: Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) manifestations occur frequently in Sjögren’s disease and can encompass mononeuropathy, polyneuropathy, and autonomic neuropathy. Guidance is needed for rheumatologists, neurologists,…

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