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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Workforce and Education

Rheum for Growth: How the ACR Is Teaching, Training, and Tackling Shortages

Sunday, October 26, 2025
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Central Time

    Moderator(s)

  • Sonam Kiwalkar, MD

    The Vancouver Clinic
    Portland, Oregon, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

  • SA

    Stacy Ardoin, MD, MSc

    Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Columbus, Ohio, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

  • JH

    Jonathan Hausmann, MD

    Boston Children's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • Pankti Reid, MD, MPH

    University of Chicago Medical Center
    Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Disclosure(s): AbbVie/Abbott: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing); Amgen: Consultant (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Patent pending: Intellectual Property/Patents (Ongoing)

As the demand for rheumatology care skyrockets, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) is stepping up with innovative solutions to address the growing workforce shortage and enhance training for future rheumatologists. This session will explore the ACR’s programs dedicated to rheumatology didactics and workforce expansion. Learn about inventive programs for learners, ranging from undergraduate students to rheumatology fellows, as well as practicing rheumatologists, advanced practice providers, and primary care clinicians. The speakers will highlight how the ACR is building "rheum" for growth and success in rheumatology education and practice and demonstrate exactly how you can access ACR resources of specific interest to you.

Learning Objectives:

  • Delineate the ACR’s efforts to expand the rheumatology advanced practice provider workforce and create resources for primary care in order to address the rheumatology shortage
  • Describe the ACR’s medical education efforts to teach rising rheumatologists and foster rheumatology recruitment
  • Demonstrate how different audience members can access ACR resources of interest to them

Presentations:

  • 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM Central Time
    Workforce Solutions by the American College of Rheumatology

    Speaker: Beth Jonas, MD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • 10:50 AM – 11:10 AM Central Time
    ACR's Education Efforts for Rising Rheumatologists & Rheumatology Recruitment
  • 11:10 AM – 11:30 AM Central Time
    Panel Discussion

    Panelist: Beth Jonas, MD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill