News
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TARC Supports the Osteoarthritis Action Alliance’s (OAAA) Collaboration with CDC for #OAAwarenessWeek
TARC is sharing educational information during May, which is Arthritis Awareness Month! In addition, the dates of 5/8-5/14 are designated as Osteoarthritis Awareness Week. TARC is helping support the OAAA’s and CDC’s collaboration for #OAAwarenessWeek by helping to spreading the word.
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Ralph Alberto, an Undergraduate Student in Dr. Richard Loeser’s Lab, Receives “Highest Honors” Award for Senior Honors Thesis
The thesis was titled, “Chemokine ENA-78/CXCL5 is Produced by OA Synovial Fibroblasts in Response to a Matrix Damage Stimulus and is Found in Synovial Fluid Collected from Patients After ACL Injury.”
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TARC Researchers Share Findings and Expertise at Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI-22) Conference
Thurston Arthritis Research Center experts provided their latest findings, both in-person and remotely for the OARSI 2022 meeting held in Berlin, Germany.
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Dr. Beth Jonas Discusses System-Wide Stress and Exhaustion Among Healthcare Providers, on a Recent Podcast Hosted by “Rheumatology Advisor”
Dr. Jonas does not like the term “burnout” because it places the onus on the physician, when the problem is really the healthcare system.
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Dr. Saira Sheikh’s Grateful Patient Makes a $500K Gift To Support Innovative Autoimmune Disease Research at TARC
Ginny and Doug Ware have partnered with Dr. Saira Sheikh to support a new fund that will advance science and improve the lives of individuals with autoimmune diseases.
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Drs. Amanda Nelson, Yvonne Golightly, and Leigh Callahan: Co-authors on Research Ranked as the “2nd Most Talked About” in Arthritis & Rheumatology for 2021
The study was titled: Recreational Physical Activity and Risk of Incident Knee Osteoarthritis: an international meta-analysis of individual participant-level data.
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Dr. Saira Sheikh Co-Leads $500K ACR Grant Funded by the Office of Minority Health to Address Racial Disparities in Lupus Clinical Trials
The 2-year grant is named TIMELY – Training to Increase Minority Enrollment in Lupus Clinical Trials with Community Engagement.
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Dr. Amanda Nelson’s Research Selected for 2021 ACR Debrief on 2/4/22: “Baseline Cam or Pincer Morphology is Associated with Loss of Joint Space Width at the Hip”
The poster is being presented as part of the ACR Convergence 2021 Debriefs and Poster Tours.
