📣 Calling all MD & DO students (including MD/PhD, DO/PhD, MD/MPH, DO/MPH)!

Apply for the Rheumatology Future Physician Scientist Award, supporting research training for future physician-scientists in rheumatology.

🗓️ Applications due Dec 1, 2025 by 5 PM ET rheumresearch.org/preceptorships#RFPS

My first rheum research mentor who got me to my first ACR in 2016: Dr Jen Barton

#ACR25

Abstract 1604: anti-rituximab antibodies as a cause of treatment failure in ANCA & cryoglobulinemic vasculitis. #ACR25

Malignancy association with Ro52 positivity. #ACR25

Dr. Martha Delgado gave a great #ACR25 presentation focused on improving patient participation in clinical trials in Latino communities. She shared barriers for both patients & providers as well current efforts to remove barriers.

cc: @ladaorg.bsky.social #LADAorg @lupuschat.bsky.social #LupusChat

Cat interlude #ACR25

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Today, in collaboration with @BUMedicine Emergency Medicine, we shared some basic POCUS skills to our second-year medical students. Let’s keep integrating POCUS into medical school curricula!

This October I’m drawing 1 molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social

Day 13
Prompt DRINK
Pdb: 7BTW

A pair of mitochondrial outer membrane β-barrel SAM complexes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast used to make beer.
Cheers!

Next: TRUNK
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🧵 New study alert!
💊 Does early TNF inhibitor (TNFi) therapy reduce chronic opioid use in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA)?
👉 We looked at real-world US data to find out.

📄 Arthritis Care & Research, 2025
🔗 acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@rheumcat.bsky.social

Proud mentor of Dr. Jose Meade-Aguilar (BU/BMC internal medicine resident)

#ACR24

Thanks for the head's up @restovall.bsky.social!

Our mentee Jose Meade-Aguilar's work is cited from #ACR24 here: www.the-rheumatologist.org/article/key-...

NEW EPISODE! Alain Sanchez-Rodriguez, MD, joins the podcast to discuss delays in #lupus diagnosis & care based on findings from the Lupus Midwest Network (LUMEN)
🎙️Listen → https://acr.tw/3UWKCXi

#Medsky

We had so much fun sharing some Lung POCUS basics to our MS2s @bumedicine.bsky.social! Their names is Ultrasound Is for Everyone and I just love it.

Thank you @rheumcat.bsky.social for many hours of outstanding mentoring and hard work! What an incredible journey this has been! @rheumresearch.bsky.social

I am here basically because @rheumcat.bsky.social