Kelly was first diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) at the early age of two. At the time of her diagnosis in 1982, options for treatment were extremely limited. As a result, Kelly’s mobility has become exceedingly restricted, requiring a walker or wheelchair at home...
The foundations of a rheumatology researcher… As a young child, Anna Helena Jonsson, MD, PhD, was close friends with a girl who had juvenile idiopathic arthritis. As she grew up, this was not in the forefront of her thoughts but once in college this early experience...
ANRF Alumni, Dr. Betty Tsao, Dr. Jian Zhao and their colleagues identified a genetic risk factor for autoimmune disease found in an under-explored genomic region Last year, Nature Genetics published findings by a team of ANRF Alumni at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) uncovering a...
Dr. Judith Ashouri-Sinha has a personal connection to Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) that has been the driving force behind her motivation to work in research. As a child, she experienced the impact of RA in her own home, witnessing the struggles her mother endured as a...
Peter A. Nigrovic, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a practicing adult and pediatric rheumatologist and director of the Center for Adults with Pediatric Rheumatic Illness (CAPRI) at the Brigham and...
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) affects 1.5 million Americans and some of those are teachers, like myself, who are teaching with rheumatoid arthritis. Let me give you a little background; my name is Tiffany and I’ve been teaching high school for seven years and I was diagnosed...
Key players in the body’s defenses, macrophages are immune cells that swallow bacteria, viruses or infectious germs. When the body comes under attack, these white blood cells engulf the attackers and eliminate the threat. Like characters in a Pac-Man video game, they roam the body,...
Remember when you were younger and someone would ask you, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” A typical response would be an astronaut, cowboy, policeman, actress, teacher or princess. However, for me, because of my chronic illness, my response was a...
For Erik Vick, an author and self-described “chainsaw-wielding Viking”, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is just another villain to defeat. This beast he battles has tried to take many things away from him, but writing and humor are two things he refuses to give up without a...
Jim Nollsch and Hayden Fisher have been named as the newest additions to the Cure Arthritis Ambassadors. Jim Nollsch and Hayden Fisher are the co-founders of the Blue Sky Cup, an annual event in Vail, Colorado, where teams compete to ski up to 40,000 vertical...