First-year RA spotlight ✨ Annie Nolan spent last weekend catching up with old friends, camping, and volunteering at the Green Mountain Blue Grass & Roots festival in Vermont! Looked like a great time 😎

Did you know that the KArAT study now has over 300 randomized subjects? Incredible! Thank you to everyone across all sites for their hard work in getting us to this point. 🥕 To learn more about the study follow this link: oracore.bwh.harvard.edu/karat/

Time to celebrate another OrACORe alum! A couple of weeks ago ex-RA Cathy Yang began her journey as an MD candidate at Rutgers Medical School. We could not be more excited for you, Cathy - you got this! 🥂

This The Joint Action Podcast 🦴 episode presents yet another illuminating discussion facilitated by ProfDavidHunter. His emphasis on the importance of preventing knee OA before it develops reminds us of our motivation behind some of our own studies like TOPS! jointaction.info/podcast/episod…

Last week we celebrated the birthdays of Khara James and Kyna Long with some sweet treats from Solid Ground Cafe! Thanks for being so easy to celebrate!🥂🎂🧁

Another RA spotlight 🌟 This week we are featuring Sasha Aronson who recently rounded out her move to Boston with the adoption of two furry friends! 😻 Looks like they are loving it!

Happy Labor day from the OrACORe team 🥳

Last but certainly not least - we celebrate the white coat ceremony of graduated RA Lauren Mitchell! We are so excited to see you thrive at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago! Congratulations 😁

Can you guess who this secret OrACORe office forager is? 👀 Whoever they are seemed to have a very successful morning hunt!

3 Katies in one pic? What a treat! Last week we had a send off party for our summer intern Katie Krupa (center Katie) who is about to start her senior year at Harvard. We hope you have a fabulous final year of college!

Happy early birthday to treasured OrACORe member Jamie Collins! We don't know what we would do without you - enjoy your bday weekend! 🥳🥳🥳

New from me and OrACORe RA Samantha Chin in The Journal of Rheumatology - Clustering Methods in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases Research: An Educational Guide to Best Research Practices jrheum.org/content/early/…

Happy birthday to an OrACORe superstar - RA Katie Fox! 🎈 We hope you have an amazing day!!

Did you guess correctly that our secret office forager was Dr. Elena Losina? In addition to hunting for fungi, Elena also enjoys baking and gardening in her free time! #facultyhighlight 👀

Last week we celebrated the birthday of Caty Brown with some cookies, muffins, fruit, etc.,! What a great celebration for a great RA! 🎂🍰🥞

Wow! What a fantastic spread for our ORACORE superstars Jamie Collins and Katie Fox last week! We hope you had a very happy birthday celebration 😇

Publication alert 🚨🚨 Follow the link to read the protocol paper for the KArAT trial 🥕-> sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are currently revamping our website with some easy to read visual summaries of our recent Osteoarthritis Policy Model Publications 😎 Check out this one summarizing the following paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38710438/

Happy birthday to Jennie Hanberg! We are so grateful to have you in the office 🥳

Exciting things are in the works... Next week a new blog post featuring our post-doctoral fellow Rey Zafarnejad will be posted to the OrACORe website. Spoiler alert🚨the blog includes more pictures of Rey's cat Moorche!