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UNC Hospitals and the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology are excited to announce the opening of the UNC Hospitals Therapeutic Infusion Center at Carolina Pointe II!

Check out this great article about our center! Drs. Jordan, Tarrant, Callahan, Loeser and Sheikh were all contributors. The Rheumatologist has a US print circulation of 9,796 and an international print circulation of 1,707. In January 2015, The Rheumatologist page views were over 78,000.

UNC TARC's Beth Jonas, MD has been awarded the 2014 Clinician Scholar Educator Award from the American College of Rheumatology. The purpose of the Clinician Scholar Educator Award is to develop and support educators who are dedicated to providing a high-quality clinical educational experience to future rheumatologists and rheumatology health...

Osteoarthritis-related biomarkers following anterior cruciate ligament injury and reconstruction: a systematic review. Read the full paper by clicking on the link below.

Dr. Cristy Page and Dr. Adam Goldstein with the UNC Family Medicine’s Weekly Health Radio Show YOUR HEALTH®, have a conversation with Dr. Joanne Jordan. Tune in via podcast at: http://yourhealthradio.org Listen live on: WCHL 97.9 FM, Saturday at 9 AM, Sunday at 9 AM & 5 PM and Monday...

Dr. Leigh Callahan has received a one-year grant from the Arthritis Foundation to evaluate “Camine Con Gusto,” the Hispanic version of Walk With Ease program, among 200 Hispanic adults with self-reported arthritis or joint pain.

Faculty: Joanne M. Jordan, MD, MPH Inductee, American Clinical and Climatological Association, the oldest medical society in America founded in 1884 ACR Board of Directors Leigh F. Callahan, PhD ACR/ARHP Lifetime Achievement Award Appointed Director of OAAA COAMI Steering Committee ACR Finance Committee Faculty Member, US Bone and Joint Initiative...

Joanne M. Jordan, MD MPH, Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology and Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center was inducted into The American Clinical and Climatological Association in October. Marc Hochberg, MD MPH, Marschall Runge, MD PhD and John Winfield, MD sponsored Dr. Jordan’s membership into...

The TARC M&I Tarrant lab crushed the Training Initiative in Biomedical Biological Sciences (TIBBS) pumpkin carving contest this year.

Dr. Leigh F. Callahan, Mary Link Briggs Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UNC’s Thurston Arthritis Research Center will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) / Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP) Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA on November 15, 2014. This award is...