ACR Journals On Air

In this week’s episode, Dr. Shanmugam welcomes Dr. Mary Beth Son, the senior author and corresponding author of “Treatment of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: Understanding Differences in Results of Comparative Effectiveness Studies.” This study sought to determine whether the application of different MIS-C definitions and differing disease severity in patients participating in two separate comparative cohorts underlay discrepant results. Dr. Jon Hausmann, pediatric rheumatologist and

This week we welcome Dr. Jamie Collins, lead author of “Five-Year Structural Changes in the Knee Among Patients With Meniscal Tear and Osteoarthritis: Data From a Randomized Controlled Trial of Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy Versus Physical Therapy“. We discuss this study’s methods, statistical results and what all that data indicates about the role of exercise and surgery. Later, Dr. Collins offers advice for non-clinicians working with clinicians and explains what it's like being a

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Dua and Dr. Bolster to the show, co-first authors of “Virtually Speaking: The impact of a Nationwide Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning Forum.” and discuss the study’s findings along with their educational collaborative initiative Virtual Fellows in Training (VFIT), which includes a compendium of online courses: Virtual Rheumatology Learning Collaborative (ViRL), Virtual Rheumatology Practicum (ViP Adult & ViP Pediatric) and Virtual Rheumatology Teach Lessons

In our inaugural episode we welcome Dr Monica Yang, lead author for "Reactogenicity of the Messenger RNA SARS–CoV-2 Vaccines Associated With Immunogenicity in Patients With Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease" and Dr. Maria Danila the Associate Editor for the manuscript. We discuss some of the findings their COVID19 Vaccine Response in Patients with Autoimmune Disease (COVARiPAD) study found, deeply dive into the data that supports their findings and ask what was involved in putting this manuscript

The American College of Rheumatology’s newest podcast series featuring interviews, commentary, and analysis on research from our three peer-reviewed journals. Whether it’s an expert analysis of a manuscript or deep dive with an author – our goal is the same – to understand the impact of the science and bring it from the bench to the bedside.