🔑 Key messages
🟣 Health literacy underpins SDM: without understanding, there is no true partnership.
🟣 Social context matters: decisions are not made isolated from patients’ daily realities.
🟣 Equity & empathy must guide SDM: tackling bias and barriers ensures everyone can participate meaningfully.

Patients may face barriers such as limited health literacy, competing demands, or cultural & language differences. Clinicians may struggle with time pressures, communication challenges or unconscious bias. At the system level inequities in access and fragmented care can further undermine engagement.

At #ACR25, the session “Enhancing Shared Decision Making in Rheumatic Disease Management” brought together clinicians, researchers & patients to reflect on what it means to share decisions in rheumatology, not as an abstract concept, but as lived practice shaped by communication, trust & equity.

I get excited for this talk every year- looking forward to hearing Dr Tamika Webb-Detiege’s pearls of wisdom on #WorkLifeBalance to remind us that, as much as we love it, life is more than just about work.

A great start to #ACR25!
@rheumnow.bsky.social

I'm very happy to share the first full paper from my PhD, published in #ARD!

Association of #HealthLiteracy with disease outcomes in #InflammatoryArthritis: a systematic review

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
@kingslsm.bsky.social

So, what did we find?

Day 3 of #EULAR2025!

😴 We’ll discuss all things related to sleep & fatigue in this fascinating #PARE session

📍 C3
🕰️ 15:45-17:00
🗓️ Today!

👋🏼 See you there!

Gearing up for a busy #EULAR2025!

🔵 1 oral abstract on #HealthLiteracy & clinical outcomes- tomorrow!
🔵 1 poster tour: health literacy & IA
🔵 Two posters
🔵 1 study group presentation
🔵 Chairing #PARE sleep session
🔵 Reporting for @rheumnow.bsky.social

And plenty more!

🏃🏻‍♀️✈️ Lets go!

@eular.org

Delighted to share our review on #HealthDisparities in #rheumatology management in #JointBoneSpine.

Here, we discuss aspects such as social, societal & structural barriers to care and optimal management in #RMDs, & how we may tackle them.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m super excited to be joining Joel Nelson on The Chronic Pain Club Talk Show this weekend to discuss all things related to #HealthLiteracy! Huge thanks to Joel for the invitation.

Join us over on YouTube at 7pm BST on Sunday!

Link to subscribe and watch: www.youtube.com/live/HaOikX-...

✨An absolute “pinch me” moment!✨

Huge thank you to #ACR for this kind invitation to speak at #ACR25 on a topic very close to my heart.

Thank you to those who proposed me as a speaker- what a wonderful surprise & honour!

Time to get planning (and control those nerves!)

Thank you @rcphysicians.bsky.social & #FHJ for inviting me to write an article on #ClimateChange & #Health following my Teale Essay Prize last year

Here, I explore this topic from a personal perspective, incl the impact on #RMDs & #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today @rcphysicians.bsky.social published guidance on #HealthInequalities for physicians, highlighting actions they can take to prioritise these at work

I'm pleased to have contributed in a small part to this, as part of the consultation process

Read the guidance here www.rcp.ac.uk/improving-ca...

I am pleased to be part of @who.int #Fides programme for "Bite-sized #MRCP", a #YouTube channel with short concise videos for those revising for postgraduate medical exams

#WHOFides promotes reliable health information online

Find out more about Bite-sized MRCP here youtube.com/@bitesizedmr...

🌍 #PARE2024 continued with #WorldCafe on #PatientResearchPartners in research

🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️ We’ve come a long way but still have a far to go

💡 We identified many challenges but also solutions- hopefully through continued discussion, we can make PRP involvement the norm

#EULAR
#EMEUNET
#EULARPARE

#PARE2024 officially kicks off with a welcome from #EULAR #PARE Chair Peter Boyd and EULAR President Daniel Aletaha.

Keynote from EULAR Treasurer Laure Gossec on collaborative research through the lens of the past, present and future.

🏃🏻‍♀️4th & final conference of November & 2024-let’s go!

👩🏻‍⚕️Look forward to representing #EMEUNET at the #EULAR #PARE conference over the next few days

📄Packed programme covering #EULARAdvocacy, the manifesto, highlighting the role of #PRPs & more!

☺️ Thank you as ever to EULAR-PARE for this opportunity

From #ACR24 to #MedPlus24…

Thank you @rcphysicians.bsky.social for my Teale Essay Prize, part of which included attendance at #MedPlus24.

Thank you to the #RCP team for organising a fantastic conference with many great learning opportunities.

It’s been 1wk since the #WomenOfTheFuture Awards Final. I was unable to attend due to #ACR24, but delighted to have been shortlisted for the Science category.

A huge thanks to those who supported my nomination, incl supervisors at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social, #EULAR & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who came by my poster on #HealthLiteracy & outcomes in #InflammatoryArthritis at #ACR24

Great to connect with rheumatologists, researchers & patients from around the world, focussing on #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth

Full abstract can be found here: acrabstracts.org/abstract/hea...