Introducing Our 2023-2024 VCRC-VF Fellow: Roger Yang, MD
Roger Yang, MD, began his Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC)-Vasculitis Foundation (VF) Fellowship in September 2022. Dr. Yang's training through the Penn Vasculitis Center at the University of Pennsylvania will focus on both clinical care of patients with all forms of vasculitis and research on the diseases. As vasculitis may…...
ABIGAIL QUINN | VF Patient Hero 2022
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) • 2021 "I put my armor on, show you how strong how I am, I put my armor on, I'll show you that I am, I'm unstoppable" — Sia in the song "Unstoppable"...
ANN MARIE NIZIOLEK | VF Patient Hero 2022
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) • 2015 "God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow or sunshine without rain. But He did promise strength for the day and light for the way."...
MICHAEL AGATHIS | VF Patient Hero 2022
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) • 2013 "Strength comes from true belief and faith in God and the strength to live from my wife and daughters."...
Physician with GPA Continues Medical Career Despite Facing Obstacles and Discrimination
By Gary Salzman, MD (Edited by Nina Silberstein) A diagnosis of vasculitis changed my life, but I didn't let it ruin it. Today, I'm a 69-year-old retired physician living in Scottsdale, Arizona, who mainly practiced Geriatric Medicine, but I was also certified in Internal Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Care.…...
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