“This,” Suzanne McLaughlin said, “is a story about friendship.” Suzanne, a septuagenarian who’s living with GCA vasculitis, is determined to find life’s beauty. Despite her rare disease, she continues to explore the privilege of being alive, finding it repeatedly in art, in poetry, and, most importantly, in connection. In hard…...
Introducing Our 2023-2024 VCRC-VF Fellow: Roger Yang, MD
Roger Yang, MD, began his Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC)-Vasculitis Foundation (VF) Fellowship in September 2022. Dr. Yang’s training through the Penn Vasculitis Center at the University of Pennsylvania will focus on both clinical care of patients with all forms of vasculitis and research on the diseases. As vasculitis may…...
University of Michigan’s Vasculitis Program: Hoping to Impact Individual Patients and the Approach to the Diseases
Julia Ford, MD (left) and Ora Singer, MD, MS The University of Michigan (U-M) Vasculitis Program began in September 2021 with a soft launch. “We started simply by instituting a dedicated vasculitis clinic and have been moving forward step by step,” said Ora Singer, MD, MS, Director of U-M’s Vasculitis…...
Many Outstanding Questions Still Exist for Vasculitis Patients: The Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Vasculitis Program Hopes to Find Some of the Answers
Zachary Wallace, MD, MSc (left) and Sebastian Unizony, MD Vasculitis tends to present in a systemic manner, often affecting multiple organ systems. Clinicians should consider a broad differential (possible conditions that share the same symptoms) and think about the entire person—not just at the time of diagnosis but throughout their…...
New Vasculitis Program Opens at the Medical College of Wisconsin
Until now there were no vasculitis centers in Wisconsin. Many vasculitis patients there had to travel long distances to places such as Chicago, Illinois, or to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to find a specialist with a focus on vasculitis research and clinical care in their practice. To address…...
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