Category: Rheumatology
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2006 ACR Conference: Day 5 and Heading Home
Well, actually I’m heading to my parents’. I’ll get back home sometime this weekend. But it was my 5th day at the ACR Conference, the 3rd day of the conference proper. I managed to get to two sessions before I had to head to the airport, and they were two good ones. The other thing…
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Concurrent Abstracts – Epidemiology and Health Services
I went to another session that was supposed to help young investigators get a research career established, but I’m not going to talk about it at all. I will talk quickly about the epidemiology abstract session though. Dr. Kwoh confirmed something that has been suspected for a while now; namely that African Americans think differently…
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Plenary Session II
I again hit the plenary session today. I’m only going to talk about one of the abstracts presented, and that’s the last one by Dr. Englund. He looked a knee MRIs in a community population and found that tears or maceration (destruction) of the meniscus – the ‘padding’ of the knee joint, if you will…
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The ACR Year in Review
This is a fun session that reviews highlights of the rheumatology literature over the last year. I won’t go into the clinical stuff because I’m not sure I agree with the selections, but the basic science stuff was interesting. This is a field I’m really not familiar with and therefore I really can’t go into…
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2006 ACR Conference Day 4
Actually, it’s day 2 of the conference proper, but it’s my 4th day. It’s been another busy one. A few general comments, and then I’ll follow my model from yesterday and tell you about a few sessions. So I was told today that we have 12,500 attendees. Not bad, eh? It’s basically a small town-full…
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My Talk
Finally, the big event for me today was that I finally gave the talk I’ve been stressing out over for the last month. It went well. I’m glad to say that all the practice and the presentations for various groups of colleagues paid off. I talked reasonably well and with relatively little stuttering, I made…
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Next Session: Clinical Outcome Measures
I’m not going to go into too much detail here; a lot of this was quite technical. But the major point is that you have to have standardized ways to assess whether or not a drug works for a disease. When you have complicated multi-system diseases like RA, this can be especially complicated. If you…
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Plenary I: Rheumatoid Arthritis
So the plenary sessions are where what the selection committees thought were the most important research abstracts submitted are presented. The first plenary session hit the highlights in RA research. I’m not going to go too nuts and describe everything presented in detail. The first two abstracts presented were heavy duty basic research items, and…
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The 2006 ACR Conference: Swinging into High Gear
Woof! It really has! So the conference proper began today and it’s made quite a difference. I think the population at the convention center jumped about 10-fold today. No kidding! Last year I’m told there were 12,000 people at the conference, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if that number were here this year…
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Board Review Course Day
I have little to report from the ACR conference today. We had the board review course which is very good but nothing struck me as being very bloggable. I have, however, met a few old friends. One woman I went to school with, though we had very little time to talk, and an old mentor/friend…
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