Rewards Well Deserved at the ACR 2016 Meeting

I will not be able to congratulate and mention all awardees, but I do have several heavy hitters to praise. Canada's Claire Bombardier, University of Toronto, is receiving the well deserved Distinguished Clinician Scholar Award.

Dr. Jim O'Dell is the 2016 Distinguished Clinical Investigator Awardee. He led the network of clinician investigators for our famous triple therapy trial as well as ongoing trials with tetracyclines and the head-to-head comparisons against MTX, MTX combination treatment and etanercept in the TEAR and RACAT trials. 

The Excellence in Investigative Mentoring Award has been given to Marian Hannan, PhD (one of two recipients), who has been the Editor of Arthritis Care & Research and has been heavily involved in the Bone & Joint Decade.

There is an impressive ACR Master Designation list including household names for various diseases (epidemiology, SLE, autoinflammatory syndromes, SLE, PsA, myositis, etc) including: Hans Bijlsmas, Lenore Buckley, David Isenberg, Daniel Kastner, Edward Lally, Daniel Lovell, Phillip Mease, and Fred Miller.

Special congratulations go to Dr. Carter Thorne who has persisted in giving quality multi-disciplinary care to his patients and changing the way I practice many times over in terms of systematically assessing outcomes and acting on them when relevant, and using SC methotrexate. He has always been ahead of the curve and advocated for patients and strengthened many organizations (Canadian Rheumatology Association, Ontario Rheumatology Association to name only a couple) with charters, standard operating procedures and a unified voice. Carter's name is exactly where it should be: with the brightest and best of the rheumatology awardees!

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