Jeffrey Sparks MD MMSc

#guidelines everywhere @jeffsparks presents points of interest from #ACR #ILD #recommendations - a joint venture with American College of Chest Physicians While simultaneously the EULAR ILD recommendations are being unveiled! @RheumNow #EULAR2025 @eular_org @ACRheum

Some RA-ILD is less of a worry, some is critical. How do we stratify? Great modelling work from Korea & @jeffsparks - model stratifying really well, even without KL-6. We need to do this more, so we can go really hard early when we need to. #EULAR2025 OP0329 @RheumNow

🗣️ “A one-size-fits-all approach to increase #vaccine uptake may have had some unintended consequences,” @jeffsparks @harvardmed @BrighamWomens #COVID_19 💉🥼 Feature @HealioRheum ⬇️ healio.com/news/rheumatol…

Second edition of Rheumatology Made Ridiculously Simple is out now! This edition we actually have a professional artist and are no longer relying on my own bad drawings! #meded #rheumatology

Case Record of the MGH (@MassGeneralNews): A 41-year-old man was evaluated for swelling in the ankles and syncope. CT of the chest showed bilateral mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy, as well as an 8-mm nodule in the right lower lobe. A diagnosis was made. Read the full case…

NEW—Safety of CAR T-cell therapy for cancer in pre-existing autoimmune or inflammatory disease: a retrospective comparative cohort study thelancet.com/journals/lanrh…

Risk factors for interstitial lung disease in early rheumatoid arthritis and external validation of screening strategies: Baseline results of SAIL-RA medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

Case-control study using VA data found increased fire smoke PM2.5 was associated with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease, while NOx, ozone, and PM10 were associated with rheumatoid arthritis risk In A&R doi.org/10.1002/art.43…

Tumour necrosis factor inhibitor safety in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease Linked Comment by Gregory C McDermott & @jeffsparks thelancet.com/journals/lanrh…

‘Chasing variants’ may not be the optimal COVID-19 vaccination strategy healio.com/news/rheumatol… Highly rational discussion on the influx of boosters by. @CCalabreseDO and Kevin Winthrop - must read for rheumatologists. - @alhkim @jeffsparks @BharatKumarMD @EBRheum @adamcifu

Happy holidays everyone! We are late this year but here is the link to the 5th international symposium on ILDs in rheumatic diseases. Registration is open and free. January 17-19th 1400 CET. Click on internationalild2025.virtualevent.it @Worldsclerofnd @TobyMMaher @OrphaLung @PhilippeDieude

Thrilled to see the ACR/CHEST ILD 🫁 Guidelines were in the top 10 widely viewed articles in A&R and AC&R in 2024! Thank you to everyone who worked on the paper! @AshimaMakol @jeffsparks @ShervinAssassi @DidemSayginMD @NamrataRheum @ZsuzsMcMahanMD @SchroederInst

Incredibly grateful to collaborate on this @PCORI #VOICE trial with #pain #pragmatic trial leaders #ErinKrebs #WillBecker #Karen Seal. I was lucky to lead a team of incredibly talented PCPs, clinical psychologists and PharmDs. @VANorthTexas @UTSWInternalMed @JAMAInternalMed

Bluesky now tracked as Altmetric research attention source - Research Information researchinformation.info/news/bluesky-n…

The road from post COVID autoAbs and IMIDS is not linear more clinical curation needed @jeffsparks @kim @EBR @MaxKonigMD @MichaelPelusoMD @EricTopol @MVGutierrezMD Autoantibodies present in long COVID, but not a ‘smoking gun’ for new autoimmune disease healio.com/news/rheumatol…

Great table re:side effects of even low dose steroids in RA Likely generalizes to other diseases ie PMR, SLE P in prednisone stands for poison! #ACR24 @RheumNow

Hot off the press in @ARD_BMJ: new gene-respiratory disease endotypes that may drive #rheumatoidarthritis. This includes top genes to test in people with #ild for RA risk. Special thanks to mentors @jeffsparks @JohnDavisIII. Check it out here! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39486873/

🚨 #ACR24 data: Among patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, circulating IL-18 levels were lower in those with long #COVID 📉 More from investigator @jeffsparks @BrighamWomens ⬇️ healio.com/news/rheumatol…

#ACR24 Thanks to @TheLancetRheum for the warm reception. It was great to see everyone @ProftDr @Dr_AndreRibeiro @jeffsparks @SattuiSEMD @EBRheum #ElizabethVolkmann