Objectives Define the major types of artificial intelligence relevant to healthcare Describe current and emerging applications of AI in rheumatology Evaluate the limitations, ethical concerns, and future directions of AI integration in rheumatologic practice AI Basics Definitions & hierarchy: Algorithms → Machine Learning → Deep Learning → Transformers → Large Language Models (LLMs) Transformers introduced self-attention (Vaswani et al. 2017) … Read More
New position at Twin Cities Orthopedics
I am excited to announce that I am starting a new position as a rheumatologist with Twin Cities Orthopedics, and will be available to start seeing patients in mid-June 2023. If you would like to schedule an appointment with me at Twin Cities Orthopedics, please follow this link to visit their rheumatology specialty page. I am committed to providing the … Read More
Social Media in Medicine - Minneapolis VA Grand Rounds
My Affiliations and Disclosures. My Journey on social media: Tweetup at the 2011 ACR Scientific Meeting in Chicago. Social Media and the Tweetups at #ACR13. #ACR14 Follow Up: Social Media Bootcamp, Tweetup, Podcasts, and #RheumJC Beginnings. #RheumJC. ACR Committees. dotMD Conference in Dublin. Advocating for Rheumatology. The Rheumatologist: Fellows Forum: Helpful Twitter Follows & Chats for Fellows in Training. @ACR_Journals … Read More
Launching @ACR_Journals Account as Social Media Editor
I’m honored to announce that I’ll be working as social media editor for the newly formed @ACR_Journals social media account on Twitter, curating online content for the official American College of Rheumatology Journals: Arthritis & Rheumatology, Arthritis Care & Research, and the soon to be launched (on March 15th), ACR Open Rheumatology. A great portion of my personal rheumatology knowledge … Read More
My Top Priorities at a Medical Meeting
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” — Seneca This year will be the tenth consecutive American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting that I have been able to attend. Each year, I have spent time prior to each meeting thinking about how to best optimize my time there, … Read More
Books Worth Reading a Second Time
“We should be choosing what to keep, not what to get rid of.” – Marie Kondo Here’s the short list of books that I finished in 2017 that I though were so good that I read them a second time: When Breath Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi The life wisdom shared by the brilliant writer and neurosurgeon, Dr. Paul … Read More
HealthPartners Orthopedic Surgery Grand Rounds: Rheumatology Update
Download PDF of slides (1.3 MB). References: Arthritis Care & Research: 2017 American College of Rheumatology/ American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Guideline for the Perioperative Management of Antirheumatic Medication in Patients With Rheumatic Diseases Undergoing Elective Total Hip or Total Knee Arthroplasty Schairer WW, et al. Preoperative Hip Injections Increase the Rate of Periprosthetic Infection After Total Hip … Read More
Talking with your Family and Friends about Inflammatory Arthritis
A common frustration expressed by patients in my clinic with rheumatoid arthritis (and other types of inflammatory arthritis) is that their family and friends have very little grasp of what is occurring to them, often with significant misconceptions. Family and friends want to help, but struggle to understand what they can do, feeling lost. They try to be sympathetic to … Read More
2016 Book and Documentary Recommendations
Painting: Renoir, Pierre-Auguste. (1880-1). Luncheon of the Boating Party, Washington DC: The Phillips Collection. “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I initially set myself the goal of reading one book per week for 2016, and although a pair of books I’ll mention … Read More