UAAC Shines at 2024 American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting

Nov 14, 2024

Led by Arthritis Center director C. Kent Kwoh, MD, MACR, the University of Arizona Arthritis Center will once again make leading-edge contributions at the American College of Rheumatology Convergence. The annual meeting is being held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 14-19. The ACR Convergence is the premier educational event for physicians, healthcare professionals, and scientists who treat or research rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. It is attended by more than 15,000 rheumatology professionals from over 100 countries.

2024 UAAC ACR Presentations:

C. Kent Kwoh, MD, MACR
Professor, Medicine 
Presentation Type: Oral
Title: Sex and Race-Specific Distributions in Medial Fixed Joint Space Width in Healthy Knees from Three Longitudinal Cohorts

C. Kent Kwoh, MD, MACR
Professor, Medicine 
Presentation Type: Poster
Title: Time to Knee Replacement by Kellgren-Lawrence Grade and Presence of Frequent Knee Pain in Two Large and Diverse Longitudinal Cohorts: Data from MOST and OAI

Samuel Cook, DO
Rheumatology Fellow
Presentation Type: Thieves Market Poster
Title: Looking Beyond the Dermis
 

Dr. C. Kent Kwoh is also a contributor in the following studies (presenting author noted):

Presenting Author: Shen Liu, PhD
Presentation Type: Poster
Title: Association of MRI-Defined Structure Features at Baseline with Knee Pain and Function Trajectories: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)

Presenting Author: Yong Ge, PhD
Presentation Type: Poster
Knee Symptom Phenotyping Incorporating Pain and Function: A Multiple-Trajectory Modeling-Based Study Using Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)

Presenting Author: Chiyoung Lee, PhD, RN
Presentation Type: Poster
Title: Mediating Role of Pain Catastrophizing in Racial Disparities in Knee Osteoarthritis Pain Among Non-Hispanic White and Asian Americans: A Pilot Study

Presenting Author: Grace Lo, PhD
Presentation Type: Poster
Title: Pincer Grip and Metacarpophalangeal Patterns Emerge as New Phenotypes of Hand Osteoarthritis Using a Data Driven Approach: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

Presenting Author: Christopher Boldt, MD
Presentation Type: Poster
Title: Participation in Baseball/Softball Associates with Increased Risk for Knee Pain and Osteoarthritis as an Adult: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

Presenting Author: Ahmed Alderazi, MBBCH, BAO
Presentation Type: Poster
Title: Exploring the Association Between Basketball Participation and Knee Osteoarthritis: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

Presenting Author: Sydney Tran, MD
Presentation Type: Poster
Title: Walking Is Associated with Less Knee Pain: A Cross-sectional Study from the Osteoarthritis Initiative