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WashU Medicine Division of Rheumatology
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Washu Medicine Division of Rheumatology applies a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding and advancement of research, education and medical care related to rheum.

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Thank you to our friends at Food Outreach for letting a small group of our division come out to volunteer at one of your events! We appreciate the opportunity to give back to the community we serve! ❄️❤️

#rheumsky #chooserheum #TisTheSeasonToGiveBack #rheumatology
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Congrats, Dr. Um! 🎊 #RheumSky #ChooseRheum #rheumatology #FIT

--What inspired you to pursue a career in rheumatology?--

I moved often throughout my adolescence, and that experience made me gravitate toward a field where physicians become long-term constants in their patients’ lives. (1/13)
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We can’t wait to have the incredible physicians join our division in July 2026! Congratulations and welcome to all the future rheumatologists! ❤️ #rheumatology #chooserheum
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Happening now: Dr. Michael Paley giving a talk about Inflammatory Eye Disease in W375C! 👀

#ACR25 #chooserheum #rheumatology

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October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Dr. Akhil Sood is presenting at poster #2201 on “Adherence to Reproductive Health Guidelines in Lupus Care: Insights from Patient and Physician Surveys” so stop on by! 🎉
#ACR25 #chooserheum #rheumatology
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Our faculty member, Dr. Daphne Lew is presenting her work on “Characterizing the Frequency and Timing of Changes in Patient-Reported Social Risk Factors among Rheumatology Outpatients” at poster #1917 now! 🎉

#ACR25 #rheumatology #chooserheum
October 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Swing by poster #2047 to learn about “Trends in Lung Transplant Listing Outcomes in CTD-ILD Across Two Decades” by our very own, Dr. Sambhawana Bhandari! 🎉

#ACR25 #chooserheum #rheumatology
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Our APD, Dr. Lisa Zickuhr (third from the left), & our Fellowship Program Coordinator, @laceyfeigl.bsky.social (second from the right), at their presentation on our Rheumatology Interest Group this morning! Way to go, Dr. Zickuhr & Lacey! 🎉🎉🎉

#ACR25 #chooserheum #rheumatology
October 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Join Dr. Lisa Zickuhr and former WashU faculty & fellow Dr. Amaad Rana in W187A-C on a workshop remediating a struggling rheumatology learner! ✏️

#ACR25 #chooserheum #Rheumatology
October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Join @drmapaley.bsky.social now in W181A-C as he moderates “Through the Looking Glass: Insights into the Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Uveitis”! 🔎

#ACR25 #rheumatology #chooserheum
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Our very own, Dr. Reema Syed, moderated a great session today on “Somatic Mutations in ‘Benign’ Disease”! Great work, Dr. Syed! 🎉

#ACR25 #chooserheum #rheumatology
October 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Congratulations to our newest faculty member, @akhilsoodmd.bsky.social, on his poster “Improving Recombinant Zoster Vaccine Uptake in Younger Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis” at the @acrheum Convergence Conference!! 🎉

#ACR25 #rheumatology
October 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Congratulations to our wonderful Division Chief, Dr. Christine Pham, on your induction into the American College of Rheumatology Masters! We are so incredibly proud of you! 🎉🎉

#ACR25 #chooserheum #rheumatology
October 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Congrats to our patient, Tim, on your successful kidney transplantation at BJH! We are honored to be a part of your story (see our rheum fellow, Dr. Thomas in the video below) and thank you to @ksdknews.bsky.social for highlighting this incredible act of kindness. 💚

www.ksdk.com/article/news...
Stranger donates kidney to man he met on Facebook: 'A second chance like Jesus gave me'
Joe Turner donated a kidney to Tim Heatherly, a stranger he met through a Facebook post, and gave him a second chance at life.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Congratulations to our faculty member, Dr. Sambhawana Bhandari on a successful CPC! You’ve made us all so proud! 🎉

#CPC #IgAVasculitis #ChooseRheum #Rheumatology
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Thank you, Dr. Andrea Fava from Johns Hopkins Rheumatology for coming to St. Louis and presenting Rheum Grand Rounds to our division!The future of #rheumatologists in #lupus is looking bright! 💜

#chooserheumatology #lupologist
September 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Another great MSK Ultrasound Bootcamp in the books! Plus, it was great to have our friends from St. Louis University Rheum to join us this year! 🦴

#chooserheum #rheumatology #MSKUltrasound
August 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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We had a great time at the Rheumatology Division Picnic! It may have been hot outside, but that won’t stop us from gathering to spend quality time and eat some great food! 🧺

#chooserheum #RheumSky
August 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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We are so incredibly proud of our #rheumatology fellow, Dr. Joy Um, on being a 2025-2026 @curearthritis.bsky.social #ANRFScholar and receiving an award of an ANRF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! Congratulations, Dr. Um! #spondyloarthritis #chooserheum🥼🧬

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July 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Last week we had four incredible physicians join our fellowship program! Please join us in welcoming Drs. Shahid, Naids, Hall and Joshi!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

#rheumfellowship #rheumatology #rheumsky
July 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Congratulations to our 2025 #Rheumatology Graduates, Drs. Bhandari, Dimachkie and Goodman! We are so proud of you can’t wait to see all that you accomplish in the future!🎉

Congratulations to our Schwartz Awardee, Dr. Um and fellow-voted Brasington Teaching Awardee, Dr. Parks!!

#graduation
June 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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We are so proud of our fellows for placing #2 in this years #RheumMadness tournament!! We lost to our great friends (Duke Rheum) which makes it hurt a little less. We also finished #1 in Rheumatology Fellowship Brackets and #2 of brackets overall so we can’t wait to celebrate that as well! 🎉 (1/3)
April 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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We’re so excited to have made Final Four in #RheumMadness! 🏀☄️ We’re also tied for first in our bracket submission! What can we say, we can read the rheum! Fingers crossed that it’s only up from here! 🤞
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Results from round 2 of #RheumMadness 2025 are out!

Read more about how our Blue Ribbon Panel voted here:
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness/
April 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Next #RheumMadness team: Prednisone dosing in lupus nephritis, from the fellows at WUSTL rheum.

Full scouting report here:
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness...

Submit your bracket before March 31 at 11:59pm ET.
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Pred Dose in SLE - RheumMadness
Team: Steroid dose in SLE Base article: Figueroa-Parra G, Cuéllar-Gutiérrez MC, González-Treviño M, Sanchez-Rodriguez A, Flores-Gouyonnet J, Meade-Aguilar JA, Prokop LJ, Murad MH, Dall’Era M, Rovin BH...
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March 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and we wanted to take a moment to recognize and thank all of the incredible women that help make our division great! ❤️

#rheumatology #InternationalWomensDay
March 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM