{"id":1310,"date":"2019-07-17T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2019-07-17T13:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:41:29","slug":"david-felson-honored-as-master-of-the-acr-at-2017-annual-meeting-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/2019\/07\/17\/david-felson-honored-as-master-of-the-acr-at-2017-annual-meeting-in-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"David Felson honored as Master of the ACR at 2017 Annual Meeting in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>ACR Public Release: 3-Nov-2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>American College of Rheumatology announces 2017 award recipients <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Leading rheumatology researchers and thought leaders honored for accomplishments and service<\/em><\/p>\n<p>American College of Rheumatology<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA \u2013 The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) announced the 2017 recipients of its Master of the ACR designation, Awards of Distinction, and Distinguished Fellow Award honors during the opening lecture of the 2017 ACR\/ARHP Annual Meeting in San Diego. These recognitions are given annually to members who exhibit outstanding contributions to the field of rheumatology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of the ACR Designation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recognition as a Master is one of the highest honors that the College bestows on its distinguished members. The designation of Master is conferred on ACR members, age 65 or older, who have made outstanding contributions to the field of rheumatology through scholarly achievement and\/or service to their patients, students, and the rheumatology profession. These honorees have devoted their long careers to furthering rheumatology research and improving clinical standards in the treatment of rheumatic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 2017 recipients of the Masters of the ACR designation is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Felson, MD, MPH, Boston University School of Medicine, Clinical Research Training Unit, Boston, MA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the ACR\/ARHP Annual Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ACR\/ARHP Annual Meeting is the premier meeting in rheumatology. With more than 450 sessions and thousands of abstracts, if offers a superior combination of basic science, clinical science, tech-med courses, career enhancement education and interactive discussions on improving patient care. For more information about the meeting, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rheumatology.org\/Annual-Meeting\">https:\/\/www.rheumatology.org\/Annual-Meeting<\/a>, or join the conversation on Twitter by following the official #ACR17 hashtag.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the American College of Rheumatology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American College of Rheumatology is an international medical society representing over 9,400 rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals with a mission to empower rheumatology professionals to excel in their specialty. In doing so, the ACR offers education, research, advocacy and practice management support to help its members continue their innovative work and provide quality patient care. Rheumatologists are experts in the diagnosis, management and treatment of more than 100 different types of arthritis and rheumatic diseases. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rheumatology.org\">http:\/\/www.rheumatology.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACR Public Release: 3-Nov-2017 American College of Rheumatology announces 2017 award recipients Leading rheumatology researchers and thought leaders honored for accomplishments and service American College of Rheumatology ATLANTA \u2013 The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) announced the 2017 recipients of its Master of the ACR designation, Awards of Distinction, and Distinguished Fellow Award honors during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}