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Animal House Region Scouting Reports

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The Animal House Region scouting reports are here! The reports are posted on the website of The Rheumatologist. Click on the team names below for a link to each report.

Axolotl limbs, written by the Wake Forest School of Medicine Rheumatology Fellowship Program: Khiem Vu, MD; Alyssa Strazanac, MD; John Herion, DO; & Rami Diab, MD

Dinosaur SpA, written by the Virginia Commonwealth University Rheumatology Fellowship Program: David Shoemaker, MD; Evan Dombrosky, MD; Nima Madanchi, MD; Abhishek Nandan, MD; & Huzaefah Syed, MD

Dalmatian Urate, written by the University of Texas Southwestern Rheumatology Fellowship Program: Kubra Bugdayli, MD; Brett Capel, MD; Yusuf Chao, MD; Melissa DeFoe, MD; Daniel Emesiani, MD; Joad Eseddi, MD; Nagendra Pokala, MD; Komal Patel, MD; Bonnie Bermas, MD; Haidy Galous, MD; Andreas Reimold, MD; & Guillermo Andres Quiceno, MD

Dog Osteoarthritis, written by the Ohio State University Rheumatology Fellowship Program: Nina Couette, DO; Jesse Reisner, DO; & Sheryl Mascarenhas, MD, Fellowship Program Director

Click here to see the rest of the bracket and read more scouting reports for RheumMadness 2022.

How to Play RheumMadness

Bracket submissions for the 2022 tournament will open March 14, 2022. For updates, you can join our email newsletter, listen to the RheumMadness Podcast, and/or join the conversation on Twitter using #RheumMadness. Important dates for RheumMadness 2022 are below:

  • Monday, March 14: Bracket entries open
  • Friday, March 24: Bracket entries close
  • Saturday, March 25: Round 1
  • Monday, March 28: Round 2
  • Saturday, April 2: Round 3
  • Monday, April 4: Round 4

Want to learn more about RheumMadness?

For a quick summary, head to our “What is RheumMadness?” page and/or read our write-up in the July 2021 issue of The Rheumatologist.

 

Cells Region Scouting Reports

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The scouting reports for the Cells Region are here!  The reports are posted on the website of The Rheumatologist. Click on the team names below for a link to each report.

Anti-NET Antibodies, written by the UNC Rheumatology Fellowship Program: Leah Bettner, MD; Shruti Chandramouli, MD; Christopher Overton, MD; Astia Allenzara, MD; Michael Cunningham, MD; & Luis Palomino, MD

Cytokine networks, written by The RheumMadness Leadership Team: David Leverenz, MD; Akrithi Udupa, MD; Guy Katz, MD; Lauren He, MD; Ben Kellog, MD; Michael Macklin, MD; Courtney Bair; Matthew Sparks, MD; & Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, MD, MEd

CAR-T Cells, written by the Mass General Hospital Rheumatology Fellowship Program: Guy Katz, MD; Ian Cooley, MD; Duncan Moore, MD; Jacquelyn Nestor, MD, PhD; & Steven Witte, MD, PhD

Pim kinases, written by the residents from the RheumMadness Leadership team: Michael Macklin, MD, PharmD; Ben Kellogg, MD; Lauren He, MD; & David Leverenz, MD

How to Play RheumMadness

Bracket submissions for the 2022 tournament will open in March 2022. For updates, you can join our email newsletter, listen to the RheumMadness Podcast, and/or join the conversation on Twitter using #RheumMadness. Important dates for RheumMadness 2022 are below:

  • Monday, March 14: Bracket entries open
  • Friday, March 24: Bracket entries close
  • Saturday, March 25: Round 1
  • Monday, March 28: Round 2
  • Saturday, April 2: Round 3
  • Monday, April 4: Round 4

Want to learn more about RheumMadness?

For a quick summary, head to our “What is RheumMadness?” page, read our write-up in the July 2021 issue of The Rheumatologist, or just watch the 4-minute explainer video below:

 

 

RheumMadness 2022 Regions

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RheumMadness 2022 is all about the Planet of the Rheumatologists.

Over 70 collaborators from 13 institutions wrote the scouting reports for RheumMadness 2022. This includes 43 fellows, 23 faculty, 3 residents, and 1 medical student. What an amazing collaboration!

We are also thankful to collaborate with the editorial staff of the Rheumatologist. Starting February 15, the scouting reports for each region in RheumMadness 2022 will be sent out on a weekly basis. We will also post links here.

Scouting Report Archive

Click here if you’d like to review the scouting reports from RheumMadness 2021

Meet the 2022 Leadership Team

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RheumMadness is growing, and that includes our leadership team. The 2022 leadership team includes some familiar faces and some new ones. We want RheumMadness to engage everyone who is crazy about rheumatology, from attendings to medical students.  That’s why our leadership team has attendings, fellows, residents, and even a medical student!

RheumMadness Leadership

David Leverenz, MD is the creator and director of RheumMadness.  He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology.

Akrithi Udupa Garren, MD serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team and is the leader of the Machines Region.  She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Medstar / Georgetown Washington Hospital Center.

Guy Katz, MD serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team and is the leader of the Cells Region.  He is a second year rheumatology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Lauren He, MD serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team and is the leader of the People Region. She is a third year internal medicine resident at the University of Chicago School of Medicine.

Ben Kellog, MD serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team and is the leader of the Animal House Region. He is a second year internal medicine resident at Duke University School of Medicine.

Michael Macklin, MD serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team as a resident contributor. He is a third year internal medicine resident at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center.

Courtney Bair serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team as our medical student advisor. She is a second year medical student at Duke University School of Medicine.

Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, MD, MEd is an advisor and mentor for RheumMadness. She is a Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology.

Matthew Sparks, MD is the creator of NephMadness and serves an advisor and mentor for RheumMadness. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology.

Thank you also to past members of our leadership team from RheumMadness 2021, Didem Saygin and Allen Whitt. 

Welcome Back!

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Welcome to RheumMadness – the place for everyone who is crazy about rheumatology to connect, collaborate, compete, and learn together.  RheumMadness is a project funded by a Clinician Scholar Educator Award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation and inspired by a similar project in nephrology called NephMadness.

We had an amazing 2021 tournament and we are looking forward to an even bigger and better 2022 season.  Keep reading to learn more.

RheumMadness in the Rheumatologist!

We were thrilled to have RheumMadness featured in the July 2021 issue of The Rheumatologist. Read it here!

Join our Team!

We are looking for rheumatology educators of all types – attendings, fellows, residents, medical students, advanced practice providers, etc – to join our leadership team to create the 2022 tournament.  Please contact us at David.Leverenz@Duke.edu or find us on Twitter (@DavidLeverenz).

In addition, we are looking for fellowship programs to help us write the scouting reports for the 2022 tournament.  This was a huge success in RheumMadness 2021 – the fellows that participated learned AND had fun!  Learn more about this by clicking “Info for Fellowships.”

How does RheumMadness work?

The main event of RheumMadness is a tournament of rheumatology concepts that occurs every year in March. The RheumMadness bracket is comprised of rheumatology concepts that compete against each other just like basketball teams in the NCAA March Madness tournaments.  The winner of each match-up is decided by a blue ribbon panel of rheumatology experts who will vote to determine which topic they think is most important to patients, providers, researchers, both now and in the future.

Before the tournament starts, you will get a chance to learn about each team by reading scouting reports created by rheumatology fellows from fellowship programs all over the country that review the strengths and weaknesses of each team.  You can also learn more by subscribing to the RheumMadness podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.

For a quick summary, watch the 4-minute explainer video below:

 

How to connect with RheumMadness

Even when the tournament is not happening, there is always something going on in the RheumMadness community!  Here are some ways to connect.

  1. Subscribe to the RheumMadness Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.
  2. Check out #RheumMadness on Twitter to follow the latest updates and conversation.
  3. For rheumatology fellows, internal medicine residents, medical students, advanced practice provider trainees, or any other trainee interested in rheumatology, please join the private RheumMadness Facebook group to connect with your peers!

RheumMadness Leadership

David Leverenz, MD is the creator and director of RheumMadness.  He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology.

Akrithi Udupa, MD serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team.  She is a second year rheumatology fellow at Duke University School of Medicine.

Guy Katz, MD serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team.  He is a first year rheumatology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Didem Saygin, MD serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team.  She is a first year rheumatology fellow at the University of Chicago.

Christopher “Allen” Witt, MD serves on the RheumMadness Leadership Team.  He is a third year internal medicine resident at Duke University School of Medicine.

Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, MD, MEd is an advisor and mentor for RheumMadness. She is a Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology.

Matthew Sparks, MD is the creator of NephMadness and serves an advisor and mentor for RheumMadness. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology.