Our rheumatology consult team are super excited to start off their month on service with Dr McMahan! UTHealth Rheumatology

A team that runs together wins together! Our division has already participated in several races this year! We’re eagerly looking forward to this years upcoming UTHealth Houston Half Marathon scheduled for 10/27! 🏃‍♀️‍➡️🏃‍➡️

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Congratulations to Drs Hwang, Skaug, Devidi, Jandali, and Terracina on receiving the 2024 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award!! 🙌🏻 UTHealth Rheumatology UTHealth Houston

First year fellow, Dr Brian Lam, discussed important patient safety topics during morning conference today! UTHealth Rheumatology #PatientSafety #QualityImprovement #RootCauseAnalysis

UTHealth Rheumatology faculty supporting the local Houston Theater! #TheSoundofMusic

New ACR Guideline Summaries: Screen, Monitor and Treat ILD! Drs Assassi and McMahan had a great time working with the team to develop these guidelines! #ILDinSARDs UTHealth Rheumatology

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Pizza and Plaquenil! Our division had a fun Friday afternoon lunch today! UTHealth Rheumatology

Congrats to Drs. Assassi, Wareing, Mayes, and SCOT investigators for publishing the long-term gene expression data from SCOT Trial: Myeloablation + stem cell transplantation leads to long-term normalization of systemic sclerosis molecular signature
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In a clip from our latest episode of ACR Journals on Air, Zsuzsanna McMahan shares with us what has made moving from one institution to another less daunting. Listen → acrjournalsonair.org ACR_Journals

It was wonderful to have Dr Sarah Smith present on her research at our rheumatology grand rounds today! Dr Smith’s research focuses on understanding the role of genomics and social exposures that lead to health disparities in lupus patients! UTHealth Rheumatology

At the World Scleroderma Congress last week in Prague, Dr. Assassi presented a summary of risk stratification tools and predictors of progression for systemic sclerosis-related lung disease. It was well received and a very exciting time in scleroderma research! UTHealth Rheumatology

NEW EPISODE! What creates GI dysfunction commonly seen in those who suffer from systemic sclerosis? Our next guest launched a study to clinically phenotype anti-ENS autoantibodies to answer that exact question. Listen → acrjournalsonair.org ACR_Journals Zsuzsanna McMahan

Thank you for all your hard work!!
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Our UTHealth Rheumatology fellows had a blast at the CSRO Fellows Conference in Austin learning valuable skills for professional development!

It was great to have Dr Rodeo Abrencillo give an informative talk on the challenges of diagnosing and treating Interstitial Pneumonia with Autoimmune features (IPAF) at our UTHealth Rheumatology grand rounds today! #IPAF

Second year fellow, Dr Hazim Muhammad, works on his QI project regarding improving accurate medication reconciliation for our rheumatology clinic patients! UTHealth Rheumatology #QI

Proud of our UT Houston Rheumatology faculty who completed the half marathon this past weekend!!
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Congrats to Dr. Jandali, Dr. Assassi, and GENISOS investigators on publishing the first prospective study reporting the disease characteristics of Hispanic American patients with systemic scl… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38221717/

Dr Mark Hwang was selected as Y-ASAS representative for the ASAS handbook at the annual ASAS meeting in Barcelona! UTHealth Rheumatology #ASAS

“1st knee Aspiration of the year for a “gout” consult with unexpected results”
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