Expert researcher and clinician, Dr. Elana Bernstein, is our guest this week as we dive into lung disease brought on by Systemic Sclerosis (SS). We discuss symptoms, diagnosis, how systemic sclerosis affects the lungs, including pulmonary hypertension and interstitial lung disease. Dr. Bernstein, who has dedicated her career to improving patient outcomes in systemic sclerosis, explains her approach to screening for lung disease, plus the latest research and questions that need to be answered....
May 21, 2024•46 min•Season 5Ep. 77
This week, Dr. Hausmann takes on Ultrasound in Rheumatology, exploring its use in the field and diagnosing diseases such as Inflammatory Arthritis, Crystaline Arthropathy and Vasculitis. Dr. Minna Kohler, Founder and Director of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, joins us as our guest. Dr. Kohler discusses how Ultrasound can help therapeutically, what it's like working in an MSK Ultrasound clinic, plus how one can become trained in the use of Ultrasound, wh...
May 07, 2024•41 min•Season 5Ep. 76
Join us this week as Jon meets with a truly influential woman in the medical field, Dr. Elizabeth Ang, being one of the first pediatric rheumatologists in the Southeast Asian region to receive pediatric rheumatology training and is the Co-Convenor of the Paediatric Rheumatology Special Interest Group of APLAR (Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology). Beyond this, and so that children with rheumatic disease in the region have the opportunity to be diagnosed and treated, Dr. Ang trai...
Apr 23, 2024•35 min•Season 5Ep. 75
Bone health may not be first on the mind when discussing rheumatology, however, Dr. Marcy Bolster believes it plays a vital role in caring for ‘the whole patient’. As such, Dr. Bolster’s innovative contributions to the field of Osteoporosis cannot be overstated. She joins us today to discuss the role of the rheumatologist in helping to prevent or treat Osteoporosis, how often it’s under-recognized, plus the services she created to help identify, diagnose and treat the condition among patients....
Apr 09, 2024•51 min•Season 5Ep. 74
When a patient is diagnosed with cancer, treatments that force the immune system into overdrive are given in hopes that it will recognize the cancer and destroy it. Unfortunately, this can mean that various Immune Related Adverse Events (IRAEs) can occur. In rheumatology, our treatments are meant to tame an overactive immune system, creating a unique dilemma. Joining us today is Dr. Laura Cappelli, MD, MHS. Dr. Cappelli explains what these IRAEs really are, how they commonly occur, what risk fac...
Mar 26, 2024•53 min•Season 5Ep. 73
April is just around the corner, and so is 2024’s State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium (SOTA)! This week, we welcome Dr. Sobia Hassan, Chair of the SOTA Planning Committee and Dr. Ibtissam Gad, Chair of the Fellows in Training subcommittee. We discuss the topics and speakers chosen for SOTA and how they were selected, some highlights including discussions on CAR T Cells, CPPD, and Check Point Inhibitors, what’s in store for our Fellows in Training and how you, our listeners, can get involved! If ...
Mar 12, 2024•46 min•Season 5Ep. 72
Join us this week for an insightful and encouraging discussion with Drs. Mandal and Grant, the founders of The Rheumatology Access Expansion Init iative (RAE). RAE is a project designed to support the Navajo Nation, an underserved community with respect to rheumatic disease. Our guests explain how leveraging the established educational model, Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO), was used to remotely train PCPs among the Navajo in the diagnosis and evidence-based treatment of rheum...
Feb 27, 2024•45 min•Season 5Ep. 71
Kicking off a new series in conjunction with ARP, we’re spending time with professionals in the field of rheumatology that can, and do, much for our patients. Today, our focus centers on The Occupational Therapist. But how much do we know of our colleagues and their contributions toward our patients? What does an occupational therapist do, with our referrals in hand? We caught up with the founder of Arthritis Life and host of the Arthritis Life Podcast, Cheryl Crow, to answer that question and m...
Feb 13, 2024•52 min•Season 5Ep. 70
If there was ever any evidence for the depth of complexity within our own brains, look no further than the placebos and their effects. Both a help and hinderance to the medical community, rheumatology clinicians and researchers can agree that when testing new treatments, the placebo effect is as powerful as it is disruptive. But what is it exactly? How does it work and for which symptoms? Are there symptoms to which this effect is ineffective? How can you diminish the effect? What is the “Nocebo...
Jan 30, 2024•42 min•Season 5Ep. 69
Join us this week for an in-depth discussion on IgG4-Related Disease with one of the premiere researchers in the field, Dr. John Stone. On this episode, Dr. Stone reviews the disease clinical presentation as well as its symptoms, how to make the diagnosis, treatment options, the role of IgG4 and what happens inside the body. Later, we discuss Dr. Stone’s research along with his personal journey in the field.
Jan 16, 2024•46 min•Season 5Ep. 68
As the year winds down and a new year is about to begin, looking back sometimes forces us to look ahead. Last month’s Convergence 2023 offered an opportunity to do just that: Look Ahead! We’ve invited the two speakers from the “The Clinical Year in Preview” session, Joan Bathon, MD and Jill Buyon, MD to discuss with us the latest abstracts that are expected to make the biggest waves in the coming year, as they relate to Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). We discuss...
Dec 19, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 67
Dr. Hausmann interviews the first author of the 2022 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Prevention and Treatment of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis Guideline Summary , Mary Beth Humphrey, MD, PhD this week. We discuss what glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) is and why it's important for people with rheumatic diseases, the need for an updated guideline, how adult and pediatric patients should be screened, risk categorization and much, much more...
Dec 05, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 66
We are LIVE from the San Diego Convention Center with Dr. Snow, Dr. Bulbin, and Dr. Phillips, fresh from their presentation at Convergence 2023 regarding the recruitment and retention of our rheumatology workforce!
Nov 15, 2023•48 min
Dr. Hausmann, MD interviews our Convergence attendees on the floor of the San Diego Convention Center! Here's your Daily Round Up for Sunday, November 13th 2023
Nov 15, 2023•16 min
Dr. Hausmann, MD interviews our Convergence attendees on the floor of the San Diego Convention Center! Here's your Daily Round Up for Sunday, November 13th 2023
Nov 14, 2023•16 min
Award-winning researcher, Dr. Doruk Erkan joins us today with newly published classification criteria for Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS ). Dr. Erkan joins us today with those criteria and why he believes there is sufficient evidence to “Rethink APS”....
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 9 min
We welcome Dr. Christina Downey back onto our show, this time LIVE from Convergence 2023! You may remember Dr. Downey from Episode 46: Empathy and Wellness , but today she comes to us in another capacity: in her continuing role as Chair of the ACR’s Government Affairs Committee! Listen in as she discusses what our collective voice in Washington has done for our patients in 2023, what are the current issues rheumatology faces “on The Hill” and lastly, what you can do to be heard! Learn more about...
Nov 13, 2023•23 min
Dr. Hausmann, MD interviews our Convergence attendees on the floor of the San Diego Convention Center! Here's your Daily Round Up for Sunday, November 12th 2023
Nov 13, 2023•12 min
The weekend of Convergence 2023 continues! Dr. Sindhu Johnson presented the new 2023 ACR Interstitial Lung Disease Guidelines (which can be found here ) and joins us today as its first author. Learn all about the recommendations, monitoring, how to approach treatment and when to change it as well as what gaps were noticed that inspired the new guidelines and the intent of the guidelines going forward. Enjoy, and we’ll see you tomorrow for another great episode at Convergence!...
Nov 12, 2023•44 min
Welcome to "ACR Convergence on Air" (ACoA)! Our daily coverage of ACR Convergence 2023! First up: what is thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) and what is its significance for rheumatology? How does TMA present in clinic and what are the challenges in diagnosing it? Chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Director of the Clinical Coagulation and the Platelet Antibody Laboratories at Duke University, Dr. Thomas Ortel, joins us on the show to explain this and more from his presentation here at...
Nov 11, 2023•53 min
ACR Convergence 2023 begins this Saturday! Dr. Hausmann gets on the mic for this short preview to unveil all of the exciting new things you'll hear, all week long, on our podcast! Be sure to wake up with Jon this Saturday morning, and every morning, during this year's Convergence!
Nov 07, 2023•2 min
Your patients are seeing you regularly, and things are going well. What else could they possibly need? In this week’s episode, we discussed the support a patient organization can contribute between visits to your office and the type of support they provide patients, such as navigating the pitfalls of insurance coverage, managing the complexities of school, work, family, relationships with a chronic rheumatic disease, group support and much, much more. Our guest is Monique Gore-Massy, a distingui...
Oct 24, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 65
ACR Convergence 2023 is very nearly here, and with it only being a few weeks away, it’s also time for our annual preview episode! What’s new this year? What returning favorites are coming back? What can we expect from the San Diego Convention Center? Jon talks to our AMPC Chair, Dr. Sharon Kolasinski once more to tease this year’s meeting, which in many ways builds on your feedback from last year as well. While listening, why not explore our Full Schedule or even Register Today ! Enjoy the show ...
Oct 10, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Most may find the topic of advocacy to be uninteresting or too big to tackle with such busy schedules. However, our guests this week, Dr. Belinda Birnbaum, MD and Lennie Shewmaker McDaniel, JD, truly breathe life into this matter while explaining the role the American College of Rheumatology has on Capitol Hill and how you (yes YOU) can play an important and rewarding role. We discuss what RheumPAC is, how the ACR identifies key issues affecting our patients, highlight past successes of the ACR’...
Sep 26, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 63
Congratulations, you’ve completed your rheumatology fellowship! Armed with the knowledge, skills and passion for treating complex rheumatic disease you’re set to go off into the world and help those who need your set of skills most. So... How do you do that? Our next guest, Dr. Sunil Abraham joins us to unpack and demystify this next challenge in your career – from his experience. We discuss the various ways of practicing rheumatology, from academic to clinical, as well as the organizational mod...
Sep 12, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 62
No matter what stage of your career you’re in, the Rheumatology Research Foundation can help and support your research endeavors. This week, we discuss many of the grants The Foundation offers, not just to medical students and early career investigators, but also to medical educators, community rheumatologists and fellowship programs. We’ve invited Dr. Ted Mikuls, MD, MSPH, the chair of the Scientific Advisory Council on the Board of Directors for the Rheumatology Research Foundation and Eryn Ma...
Aug 29, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 61
Our eyes: reflections of the soul, can say more than lips without need of translation and give us a glimpse into stories only a journey can record. Our next guest knows this all too well as he’s made a career of looking at rheumatic disease through a different lens. Quite literally. Join us this week for an illuminating discussion with Dr. James T. Rosenbaum, MD, rheumatologist and author of over 650 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Dr. Rosenbaum is credited as being both one of the world’s most impac...
Aug 15, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 60
In this week’s episode, we’ve invited Dr. Irene Blanco, MD, MS, to the show for a discussion regarding healthcare disparities. What are healthcare disparities? What causes them? Are there any disparities specific to rheumatology? We examine the consequences, explore the impact of patient outcomes, and the challenges faced by communities and some solutions you and your practice can engage in.
Aug 01, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 59
Health research methodologist and clinical epidemiologist, Dr. Emily Sirotich, PhD is our guest this week who sheds light on a growing paradigm shift in medicine: patient participation in research. Once only considered to be the beneficiaries of research and care, Dr. Sirotich is here to discuss with us the evolving role patients and patient organizations have and how they are helping to lead the way in research. Through dispensing invaluable perspectives, experiences and insights to the convers...
Jul 18, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 58
Sarcoidosis: What is it? Why does it occur? Are there any potential environmental triggers? Our guest, Dr. Adam Morgenthau, sheds light on these and more, including making the diagnosis of sarcoidosis, the need for imaging or biopsy and how it will distinguish between organ involvement and organ damage. And, perhaps just as important, we discuss when to treat it, including the various medications that can be effective for organ system manifestations. Finally, we conclude with a discussion on the...
Jul 04, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 57
