title: GRAPPA educational initiatives: a report from the GRAPPA 2012 annual meeting.
abstract: A key mission of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) is to provide education about psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) to clinicians. Among the global educational initiatives in 2012, GRAPPA worked collaboratively with several Latin American medical societies to organize a meeting of rheumatologists and dermatoligists in Buenos Aires; a second meeting is planned for Mexico City in September 2013. GRAPPA members also collaborated with the Spondyloarthritis Research and Therapy Network to conduct a series of continuing medical education symposia throughout the United States to update rheumatologists about new findings in PsA and spondyloarthritis. Finally, GRAPPA faculty presented a teaching module on PsA at an Asian regional conference in Singapore. Summaries of these activities are presented here.
authors.affiliation: Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA. pmease@philipmease.com
authors.forename: Philip J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Mease
mesh_terms: D015535:Arthritis, Psoriatic; D003880:Dermatology / Q000193:education*; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000639:trends*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D011565:Psoriasis; D013548:Sweden
keywords: PSORIASIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; SPARTAN