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Local researchers to present at annual ACR conference
Columbia, Mo. (Nov. 2, 1999) - More than half a dozen local researchers presented findings at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Rheumatology .
Seven Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center researchers presented at the national meeting, Nov. 13-17 in Boston. Two University of Missouri physicians, an MU professor of nursing and a predoctoral nursing fellow, also presented at the scientific meeting.
The ACR and the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP), a division of ACR, are the professional organization of rheumatologists and associated health professionals. The meeting draws about 7,000 rheumatologists and related health professionals from around the world, according to the ACR's Web site.
All the abstracts were published in the September supplement to Arthritis & Rheumatology, a publication of the ACR. Marian Minor, P.T.,Ph.D., a principal investigator and co-investigator on two MARRTC projects, and Robert W. Ike, M.D., presented as invited speakers at a combined clinical session of the ACR and ARHP. Minor, an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Missouri-Columbia, presented at the session "Practical Management of Common Knee Problems" focusing on the evaluation and approaches to therapy of select common knee problems.
Sara E. Walker, M.D., presented "SLE: New therapies and new problems" at the ACR concurrent abstract session. Walker is the co-investigator on MARRTC's depression management project and practices rheumatology at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia. Walker's presentation was chosen from 3,246 abstracts submitted, with only approximately 60 percent accepted for presentation, according to the ACR.
The scientific meeting also had 1,700 poster presentations over the course of six sessions, including work from the following MARRTC researchers:
- Principal investigator Jerry C. Parker, Ph.D.,
- MARRTC Biostatistics principal investigator John E. Hewett, Ph.D.,
- MARRTC Vocation rehabilitation project co-investigator G.R. Komatireddy, M.D.,
- MARRTC Vocation rehabilitation principal investigator Karen D. Multon, Ph.D.,
- Depression management project co-principal investigator and Vocation rehabilitation project co-investigator Karen L. Smarr, M.A.,
- and Walker.
Physicians who presented at the ARHP poster sessions were Professor R. W. Hoffman, D.O., and Professor emeritis James T. Cassidy, M.D. Professor Vicki Conn, Ph.D., R.N., and Kathryn Burks also presented at the ARHP poster sessions.
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