{"id":16776,"date":"2025-07-25T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/?p=16776"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:16:45","slug":"jasmine-kimber-awarded-rheumatology-research-foundation-preceptorship-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/jasmine-kimber-awarded-rheumatology-research-foundation-preceptorship-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasmine Kimber Awarded Rheumatology Research Foundation Preceptorship Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16777\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2025\/07\/Updated-Kimber-headshot-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine Kimber\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2025\/07\/Updated-Kimber-headshot-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2025\/07\/Updated-Kimber-headshot-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2025\/07\/Updated-Kimber-headshot-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2025\/07\/Updated-Kimber-headshot-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2025\/07\/Updated-Kimber-headshot-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2025\/07\/Updated-Kimber-headshot-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2025\/07\/Updated-Kimber-headshot.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Kimber, UNC Medical Student<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jasmine Kimber<\/strong>, a UNC medical student (class of 2027), was recently awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rheumresearch.org\/preceptorships#MGSP\">Medical and Graduate Student <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rheumresearch.org\/preceptorships#MGSP\">Preceptorship Award<\/a> from the Rheumatology Research Foundation. This award funds a full-time mentored research experience with an established rheumatology professional, with the purpose of encouraging students to consider careers in rheumatology. Jasmine has been working with <strong>Dr. Amanda E. Nelson, MD, MSCR, RhMSUS<\/strong>, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology at UNC, since 2024, and is also participating in the clinical research scholarly concentration (CRESCENT) at the UNC SOM.<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine\u2019s project, \u201cAssociations between inflammatory biomarkers and ultrasound features of knee osteoarthritis,\u201d combines data from two of Dr. Nelson\u2019s funded research projects. This work explores associations between blood and imaging biomarkers of inflammation in community-based individuals with and without knee osteoarthritis drawn from the <a href=\"https:\/\/jocohs.unc.edu\/\">Johnston County Health Study<\/a>. Jasmine will be attending ACR Convergence 2025 in October with funding from the RRF award where she plans to present her submitted abstract while learning more about the field of rheumatology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasmine Kimber, a UNC medical student (class of 2027), was recently awarded a Medical and Graduate Student Preceptorship Award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114753,"featured_media":16778,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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