{"id":2404,"date":"2025-11-24T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:51:41","slug":"dr-astia-allenzara-and-dr-saloni-patolia-present-research-on-obstacles-to-care-in-idiopathic-inflammatory-myopathies-at-acr-convergence-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/2025\/11\/dr-astia-allenzara-and-dr-saloni-patolia-present-research-on-obstacles-to-care-in-idiopathic-inflammatory-myopathies-at-acr-convergence-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Astia Allenzara and Dr. Saloni Patolia Present Research on Obstacles to Care in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies at ACR Convergence 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American College of Rheumatology&#8217;s annual Convergence meeting was held in October, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. <strong>Astia Allenzara, MD, MSCR<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, and <strong>Saloni Patolia, MD<\/strong>, Second-Year Rheumatology Fellow in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology both attended and presented their abstract, &#8220;Overcoming Obstacles to Care: A Survey of Adults with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (IIM).&#8221; The aim of the study that they presented was to understand patient perspectives on diagnosis, treatment, health screening, and barriers to care. IIMs are heterogeneous diseases requiring coordinated care and the assessment of patient perspectives is integral to optimizing care and improving outcomes. Co-authors on the study include Carolina Alvarez, Jessica Grant, Paul Mihas, Galen Foulke, and Amanda E. Nelson.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2422\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 699px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2422 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-300x200.png\" alt=\"Dr. Saloni Patolia (left) and Dr. Astia Allenzara (right) present their abstract, &quot;Overcoming Obstacles to Care: A Survey of Adults with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies,&quot; at the ACR Convergence meeting in October, 2025.\" width=\"689\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-1024x684.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-1536x1025.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-2048x1367.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-600x401.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Dr. Saloni Patolia (left) and Dr. Astia Allenzara (right) present their abstract, &#8220;Overcoming Obstacles to Care: A Survey of Adults with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies,&#8221; at the ACR Convergence meeting in October, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American College of Rheumatology&#8217;s annual Convergence meeting was held in October, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Astia Allenzara, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, and Saloni Patolia, MD, Second-Year Rheumatology Fellow in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology both attended and presented their abstract, &#8220;Overcoming Obstacles to Care: A Survey of Adults with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (IIM).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114753,"featured_media":2405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-e1764004907893.jpeg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-e1764004907893-300x297.jpeg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-768x513.jpeg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-1024x684.jpeg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2025\/11\/Astia-and-Soloni-at-ARC25-e1764004907893-150x150.jpeg","featured_image_alt":"Dr. Saloni Patolia (left) and Dr. Astia Allenzara (right) present their abstract, \"Overcoming Obstacles to Care: A Survey of Adults with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies,\" at the ACR Convergence meeting in October, 2025.","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}