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Maximize Your ACR Convergence Experience
ACR Convergence is known for its innovative formats and sessions designed to engage the audience and facilitate active participation. ACR President Deborah Dyett Desir, MD, shares strategies for maximizing the attendee experience.
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Meet the Professor Small Group Sessions Return
ACR Convergence attendees have the opportunity to sign up for these popular, interactive sessions for the first time in five years. The scientific program includes more than three dozen Meet the Professor sessions across 18 topic areas.
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ACR Convergence Offers Unparalleled Opportunities for Education and Connection
ACR President Deborah Dyett Desir, MD, shares her excitement for Convergence 2024. “This conference is the perfect venue for professionals to engage deeply with current trends and innovations, and to celebrate the achievements within our community,” she said.
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Networking Opportunities and Interprofessional Focus Set ACR Convergence Apart
ARP President Aileen Ledingham, PT, MS, PhD, outlines scientific sessions and activities that will be of particular interest to interprofessional team members when ACR Convergence convenes, including the ARP Business Meeting & Networking Lunch, ARP Keynote, Daltroy Lecture, and more.
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ACR Convergence Showcases the Latest Advances in Rheumatology While Connecting Researchers and Clinicians
Registration for this year’s premier rheumatology meeting is underway. Annual Meeting Planning Committee Chair Gregory C. Gardner, MD, MACP, shares some of the highlights among the scientific sessions and networking events that await attendees in Washington, D.C., this November.
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ACR/EULAR Develop New APS Classification Criteria
Doruk Erkan, MD, MPH, and Jason S. Knight, MD, PhD, explained the antiphospholipid syndrome classification criteria developed by the ACR and EULAR, including clinical features, risk stratification of macrovascular events, re-defined pregnancy morbidity definitions, and more.
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ARP Keynote: Lifestyle Medicine Benefits Patients
A healthy diet, physical activity, and stress resilience can often ameliorate disease-related symptoms such as pain, fatigue, and insomnia. In the ARP Keynote, Sarah Patterson, MD, gave an overview of research supporting lifestyle interventions for better patient outcomes and quality of life.
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Gluck Memorial Lecture Outlines the Quest for Optimal Fracture Risk Prediction and Bone Strength Measurements
No current technology can comprehensively measure bone quality, so clinicians must be attuned to the various tools available to gauge each component — bone density, accumulated microscopic damage, bone turnover, and the quality of collagen or mineral crystal size — individually. In his Monday lecture,…
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Experts Discuss Barriers, Drivers, and Solutions for Health Disparities in Rheumatology
Experts including Alvin F. Wells, MD, PhD, FACR, FACP, discussed health disparities, drivers of those disparities, and creative ways to overcome them to create better outcomes for patients with rheumatic disease.
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Physician-Owners to Offer a Checklist for Opening a Private Practice
Two rheumatologists who have been through the process, Tien-I Karleen Su, MD, and Crystal Withers, MD, PhD, will go through a checklist of the myriad aspects that must be taken into account to open a private practice and sustain the new business.