“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 2022-2023 VCRC-VF Fellow: Marta Casal Moura, MD, MSc, MSPH
Marta Casal Moura, MD, MSc, MSPH, began her one-year Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC)-Vasculitis Foundation (VF) Fellowship in July 2022. For anti-neutrophil autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), she is studying the predictors of response to plasma exchange in patients who have AAV glomerulonephritis and how histologic scores can predict the response…...
Introducing Our 2022-2023 VCRC-VF Fellow: Mohanad M. Elfishawi, MBBCh, MS
Mohanad M. Elfishawi, MBBCh, MS, began his one-year Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC)-Vasculitis Foundation (VF) Fellowship on January 1, 2022. Dr. Elfishawi will be working on several projects in giant cell arteritis (GCA) including investigating metabolic risk factors for GCA. In addition, he plans to study aortic involvement in patients with…...
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