Insights and Implications of the VA Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry

Ted R Mikuls1, Andreas Reimold1, Gail S Kerr1

  • 1is a staff rheumatologist and research scientist at the VA Nebraska Western-Iowa Health Care System and the Umbach Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, both in Omaha. is chief of the Rheumatology Section at the Dallas VAMC and associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, both in Dallas. is chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the Washington DC VAMC and professor of medicine at Georgetown University, both in Washington, DC. is associate chief of staff at the George E. Wahlen VAMC and professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Utah, both in Salt Lake City.

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