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What’s New at GRAPPA
GRAPPA Annual Meeting and Trainee Symposium 2022Registration is now open for the GRAPPA Annual Meeting and Trainee Symposium 2022 in Brooklyn, New York, officially starting the evening of Thursday, July 14, continuing all day Friday, July 15, Saturday, July 16, concluding at 4:30 PM on Saturday. A full agenda will be forthcoming. More information can be found here.
GRAPPA Call For Abstracts 2022It is time to ask your most promising Fellows and Trainees to submit an abstract for consideration to the Trainee Symposium, part of the GRAPPA 2022 Annual Meeting in Brooklyn, New York, USA. The meeting starts with a reception the evening of Thursday, July 14 and continues July 15 and 16. To be considered:• Trainees/Fellows must submit a 350 – 400 word abstract describing their work. In the title, use mixed case (do not use ALL CAPS). • All chosen must agree to create a poster, and those chosen for an oral presentation must share a PowerPoint presentation. • Must be willing to travel to Brooklyn for the GRAPPA Annual Meeting and stay for the entire meeting, through late afternoon of Saturday, July 16, 2022. • If in-person attendance is not possible, we invite you to apply for the poster presentation only. • To qualify, the applicant should not yet have a permanent faculty position and should sign up to be an active member of Y-GRAPPA. • Trainees may be undergraduates, medical students, residents in training, PhD students, post docs or fellows and must be enrolled in some type of training program and not be a member of the faculty. *Up to five trainees will be chosen to give an 8 to10 minute oral presentation using PowerPoint, followed by 5 minutes of discussion, based on their abstract. Others will have an opportunity to describe their posters during a poster session at the meeting. *DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS Friday, April 15, 2022, 11:59 PM PDT. * CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION
Best Regards, Judi Pickell, GRAPPA Executive Director Lihi Eder, MD PhD, GRAPPA Trainee Symposium Co-Chair M. Elaine Husni, MD MPH, GRAPPA Trainee Symposium Co-Chair Introducing GRAPPA's New Executive DirectorWe are happy to announce the hiring of GRAPPA’s new executive director, Judi Pickell, due to Sharon Andrews’ retirement at the end of this year. Judi is a skilled nonprofit organization manager with years of professional executive director experience. The executive committee is impressed with her related background in non-profit work and believe that her experience and energy will guide GRAPPA as this organization continues to grow. Judi lives in Utah. She started training virtually with Sharon this week. We are confident the transition will be smooth. Her new email address is: [email protected]. Finally, on behalf of all the GRAPPA family, we would like to thank Sharon for her incredible years of service to the GRAPPA organisation which are now sadly coming to an end. We wish Sharon every happiness and success in her retirement.
Thank you to all who attended the recent GRAPPA Adjacent to ACR meeting. The on-demand video can be found here https://youtu.be/2qSxSagvgxw. Click here for the agenda. Save the Dates: GRAPPA Adjacent to AAD will be held on Sunday, March 27, 2022, from 5:30 - 7:20 pm EST in Boston. An in person meeting is currently planned Hold the date: GRAPPA 2022 Annual Meeting & Trainee Symposium, Brooklyn, New York, July 14-16, 2022 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting & Trainee SymposiumThe on-demand videos of all sessions from the 2021 Annual Meeting & Trainee Symposium are now available on this website. Find the links under the "Events" tab and "Annual Meeting and Trainee Symposium."
COVID-19 Vaccines and Psoriatic DiseaseDo you have questions about the new COVID-19 vaccines for people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis? Click here to read a joint guidance statement from IFPA and GRAPPA.GRAPPA COVID-19 Guidance StatementThis guidance was prepared by rheumatologists, dermatologists and patient members of GRAPPA to provide guidance to persons with psoriasis and/or psoriatic arthritis during the current COVID-19 pandemic, in particular to those taking immunosuppressant medicines. Click here to read entire statement. GRAPPA’s “A Patient’s Guide to Treatments for Psoriatic Arthritis”This guide is now available free for download. Written in lay language, it explains current treatments for psoriatic disease. Health care professionals are encouraged to provide it to their patients. The guide was written by members of GRAPPA’s patient research partner team, with support GRAPPA MissionGRAPPA (Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis) is organized exclusively for non-profit, educational, and scientific purposes, specifically to facilitate sharing of information related to psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, networking among different medical disciplines that see psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis patients, and to enhance research, diagnosis and treatment of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. The GRAPPA app! The GRAPPA app, available in Apple and Android formats, is free to download from the Apple store and the Google Play Store. Designed to be used by physicians, this app includes various calculators. Languages include: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (standard and Brazilian), Russian, German, Arabic, Chinese (simplified, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japanese, Hebrew and Swedish. The app is free to download to all, both GRAPPA members and non-members. Here are the links:
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