Happy to report that the streets of Chicago are alive and… walkable
If anyone is interested in taking a break from the hotel shuttle to the Hilton #ACR25 #ACRAmbassador
Dr. Titilayo Adeniran spoke on building trust through community engagement in research trials, exercise programs, and education! #ACR25 #ACRAmbassador
Do you refer your patients to community/virtual maintenance/ed programs? What do we think of the HSS options?
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Dr. Bas Vastert, Care Transformation in Childhood Arthritis via Precision Medicine: sJIA treatment
⭐️cytokine monitoring, especially IL-18
⭐️T2T with biologic first approach in Netherlands- most patients don’t receive any GCs
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Dr. Bas Vastert, Care Transformation in Childhood Arthritis via Precision Medicine: Window of opportunity
⭐️in non-systemic #JIA: ⬆️ inactive disease with earlier biologic start (<6mo)
⭐️in sJIA: integrating biomarkers in clinical care, early targeted tx
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Dr. Rae Yeung, Understanding and Harnessing the Biology of Arthritis
4. Naming is important because guides therapy
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Dr. Rae Yeung, Understanding and Harnessing the Biology of Arthritis
3. UCAN Biologic Classification: lots of patients and large amount of data yielded 5 clusters with clinical and biologic characteristics and distinct patterns of joint involvement
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Dr. Rae Yeung, Understanding and Harnessing the Biology of Arthritis
2. Clinical exam doesn’t tell the whole story. Concern= patients with subclinical disease but high cytokine levels.
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Dr. Rae Yeung, Understanding and Harnessing the Biology of Arthritis
1. JIA classification has been a journey. Not every patient finds a home, & peds doesn’t consistently translate to adult classification. Is there a way to do this from a biologic basis?
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Great talk on the importance of a comparator group in clinical trials with Elena Losina and Rana Hinman at #ACR25
The session capped off with an important message “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything” - Ronald Coase
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Woman standing in front of poster in a poster hall at ACR convergence 2025
I had a great time presenting my poster at #ACR25
I hope that other conferences start to follow similar formats with poster tours and creating space between posters for accessibility 🤗 when people are allowed to flow through a space we create more interaction! #ACRAmbassador
Looking forward to starting my day off in the Networking Lounges for the AMIGO event at 8:20 AM. Hope to see many fellow #pedsrheum there!
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Dr. Karen Onel presents #ACR25 #pedsrheum Clinical Year in Review: Social Media
🚨 opportunity for increased healthcare provider engagement
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Dr. Karen Onel presents #ACR25 #pedsrheum Clinical Year in Review: Understanding Disease
-ANA positive ITP patients have higher rates of SLE and Sjogren
-Specific inborn errors of immunity are at increased risk of ANCA and AAV features
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Dr. Karen Onel presents #ACR25 #pedsrheum Clinical Year in Review: Guidelines
-EULAR/PReS Still’s Guidelines
-French protocol for treatment of #JIA
-ACR Guidance for Mental Health
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Dr. Karen Onel presents #ACR25 #pedsrheum Clinical Year in Review: Medications
-New FDA approvals: emapalumab, guselkumab
-CAR-T cells in #JDM: a child with aggressive JDM achieved remission
-Stem cell transplant: high morbidity, those who survive do well
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Dr. Karen Onel presents #ACR25 #pedsrheum Clinical Year in Review: Deprescribing
-a large number of patients JIA flare off therapy
-lower uveitis recurrence with slower ADA tapering schedule
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Are clinicians still not using patient friendly language? Or have the last two presentations been a fluke?
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Great convos at the orthopedics posters this morning!
I was not expecting to meet people with so many connections to the @cu-restore-team.bsky.social
ACR is doing a good job with the poster tours as well #ACR25 #ACRAmbassador #phdsky
Drs. Linda Hiraki and Bonnie Bermas discuss applying 2025 SLE Guidelines to #cSLE
⭐️Peds specific GC dosing: GCs impact physical appearance ➡️ self-identity, mood
⭐️ Mental health screening is 🔑
⭐️Impact on growth
⭐️Monitor school attendance/performance
⭐️Transition
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The 2025 ACR extrarenal SLE guideline includes 36 graded recommendations
🔑HCQ= standard therapy
🔑GCs to control initial inflammation/flare; taper ASAP
🔑Early use of immunosuppressive therapies
🔑Shared decision making
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#ACR25 Clinical Year in Review by Dr. Bryant England (2/2): #Lupus
⭐️ 2024 lupus nephritis guidelines recommend triple therapy
⭐️ New option for 3rd therapy to treat lupus nephritis: obinutuzumab
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#ACR25 Clinical Year in Review by Dr. Bryant England (1/2): #Sjogren
⭐️ “The name has caught up to the science in Sjogren’s.”
⭐️ Potential role for salivary autoantibodies
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#ACR25 Basic Science Year in Review by Dr. Anne Davidson (3/3):
Emerging conference themes
⭐️ CAR-T: upcoming sessions for #rheumsky and #pedsrheumsky
⭐️AI: resource provided for those interested in learning more
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#ACR25 Basic Science Year in Review by Dr. Anne Davidson (2/3):
Take home messages about the progression of RA from preclinical to clinical state
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#ACR25 Basic Science Year in Review by Dr. Anne Davidson (1/3):
🔑 papers from the past 12 months
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What a great start to #ACR25!
The Opening Session featured a keynote by Dr. Tait Shanafelt, who spoke on the very relevant topic of clinician well-being.
It was great seeing familiar faces at the grand opening networking event and at the @hspecialsurgery.bsky.social alumni event!
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A painting by Henri Edmond Cross, “beach at Cabasson” at the art institute of Chicago
Today at the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social I learned that even impressionists need rheumatologists!
Henri Edmond Cross moved to southern France due to his RA - I wish I had more time to explore the museum the rooms were endless!!
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Countdown to #ACR25- there’s still time to work on your meeting schedule.
If you’re #pedsrheum, you can filter the schedule by General Topic ➡️ Pediatrics to see all the amazing content in store.
Or you can check out the listserv email from the planning committee sent Oct. 3.
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Starting the Global Summit off with a session on Health Technology Assessments in Rheum by Dr. Grimm!
Determining value of health tech is undoubtedly going to be more and more vital with the rise of AI in healthcare amongst other tech #ACR25 #ACRAmbassador #rheumx