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Two students were awarded an eight week preceptorship by the Rheumatology Research Foundation and will complete their preceptorships at UNC TARC.

Collins Mbonu and Shahmeer Lateef join UNC TARC under the guidance of Dr. Leigh Callahan and Dr. Amanda Nelson, respectively. The purpose of the preceptorship program is to introduce medical and graduate students to rheumatology-related health care by supporting a full-time clinical or research experience in the broad area of rheumatic disease.

Jeffrey Brow and Nicolas Ashur are both MSTAR students who will work with Dr. Jordan this summer on a projects related to arthritis.

Jeffrey will work on a project looking at the role of obesity, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease as modulators of pain threshold in patients with symptomatic knee and hip osteoarthritis and Nicolas’s project will explore the effect modification of co-morbidities on physical function in osteoarthritis.