Fantastic work from Jennifer Mandal and the Rheumatology Expansion Initiative to develop a curriculum for culturally-specific care of rheumatoid arthritis on the Navajo reservation, taking inspiration from the Echo project! #ACR22 plenary

Seeking chief of new Division of Clinical Informatics & Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) UC San Francisco Dept of Medicine. We have world-class informatics faculty, & division will be academic home for many of them. aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF04236 (I'd also be thrilled to talk to potential donors!)

We are thrilled to welcome 3 outstanding rheumatology fellows @DrRahafBaker John Landefeld Megan W. Creasman to UCSF. The future of rheumatology is bright! Lianne Sarah Goglin Jinoos Yazdany Gabby Schmajuk

Looking at ways to improve your quality of patient care? You can’t improve your performance unless you measure it first! Check out the ACR’s RISE registry to improve your quality measure performance today → acr.tw/3WBHVZy

We are hiring! Full-time post-doc job in clinical outcomes and health disparities research with quil.ucsf.edu. Join a mission-oriented, productive, innovative team of epidemiologists, data scientists UCSF Rheumatology opportunities.ucsf.edu/content/post-d… Gabby Schmajuk

This is where I work. So grateful. Come join my team. We are looking for post-doctoral scholars and research specialists. VA San Francisco The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine at UCSF UC San Francisco nayak.ucsf.edu/positions

🌟Exciting news! Join us in extending a warm welcome to @LauraPlantinga, an epidemiologist joining the faculty UCSF Rheumatology & UCSF Nephrology! We're thrilled to have her expertise and passion for advancing rheum and CKD research. Looking forward to exciting collaborations ahead!

Taking your boards for the first time or recertifying this year? Join us in person or virtually for the 31st annual UCSF Rheumatology Board Review course August 10-12, 2023! virtualce.ucsf.edu/rheumatology

1/2 Thank you AHRQ for helping us create tools to scale and spread the use of PROs in rheumatology: digital.ahrq.gov/program-overvi…

#Shingles vaccine rates very low in immunocompromised patients in this UCSF Rheumatology national VA population. Huge #patientsafety issue. Gabby Schmajuk

#RISEregistry +Medicare data show low rates of #tuberculosis screening among new users of JAKi and IL-17i who have no biological or tsDMARD use in the last year. Do you screen for TB with these drug mechanisms? #patientsafety UCSF Rheumatology acrabstracts.org/abstract/tuber…

On a mission to improve #patientsafety in rheumatology. UCSF Rheumatology study showing really low rates of HLA-B 58:01 testing in high-risk groups before starting allopurinol. Gabby Schmajuk acrabstracts.org/abstract/facil…

Dr. Jeremy Sullivan recent grad of UCSF Rheumatology doing a fantastic job presenting his important work on gaps in HLAB5801 screening in the VA system Gabby Schmajuk Jinoos Yazdany

Patients with RA loved a dashboard that displays disease activity and other PROs - improving trust and communication with clinicians. Jinoos Yazdany UCSF Rheumatology acrabstracts.org/abstract/patie…

User log data is the key for understanding engagement with health IT tools- we connected google analytics to our salesforce side-car application to monitor how often clinicians were using a new RA dashboard. Jinoos Yazdany UCSF Rheumatology #ACR23 acrabstracts.org/abstract/analy…

All those with new #rheum fellows: the Resources page of the American College of Rheumatology RA Toolkit (ratoolkit.kotobee.com/#/reader) has a great tutorial on how to do a joint exam and trainings on completing RA disease activity scores like CDAI.

Look at the slopes of #infliximab biosimilar uptake in the Private market and #Medicaid, and then look at #Medicare. Our research letter, using American College of Rheumatology #RISEregistry data, explores these trends and discusses why Medicare is falling behind.

Published in Health Services Research Dr. Schmajuk & colleagues share findings on the national rollout of a medication safety dashboard to improve infection testing for VA patients.