Arthritis At Home (+ On the Go)

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis 2026 interview with Ms. Trish Barbato, President and CEO of Arthritis Society Canada. Trish summarizes the key points in Arthritis Action Now: The Plan to End Arthritis in Canada. Arthritis Action Now is Canada’s first actionable, coordinated strategy to transform prevention, care, and research for arthritis. It was co-created b...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis 2026 interview with Dr. Denis Poddubnyy, Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Poddubnyy discusses his experience first working in Germany and then moving to Canada in July 2024. He talks about the similarities and differences in the health and education systems between the two countries. He stresses the import...

June is National Indigenous History Month. Arthritis Consumer Experts would like to highlight that arthritis affects Indigenous Peoples’ more significantly and more severely than in non-Indigenous populations.  To understand and practice Indigenous health, there must be respect for Indigenous Peoples, their world views, ways of knowing, and cultural practices. The concept of health for Indigenous...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are excited to share the #CRArthritis 2026 interview with Dr. Marinka Twilt, a Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Calgary. Dr. Twilt highlights key points from her workshop at this year’s meeting titled “Demystifying ‘That Mysterious Joint (TMJ)’: A Succinct, Hands-on Approach to TMJ Assessment”....

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, host Cheryl Koehn speaks with Laura Wingate, Chief Education, Support, and Advocacy Officer of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of the USA, about the Patients and patents campaign.   The interview will explore what the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation does for patients, why the Patients and patents campaign is important for patients in the USA, and discuss way...

May is Lupus Awareness Month in Canada, an important opportunity to raise awareness about the realities of living with lupus and the need for more comprehensive, patient-centred care. As part of ACE’s special Lupus Awareness Month programming, Arthritis at Home is featuring programming that elevate patient experiences and highlight important gaps in lupus care. In this episode of Arthritis At Home...

May is Lupus Awareness Month in Canada, an important opportunity to raise awareness about the realities of living with lupus and the need for more comprehensive, patient-centred care. As part of ACE’s special Lupus Awareness Month programming, Arthritis at Home is featuring programming that elevate patient experiences and highlight important gaps in lupus care. In this episode of Arthritis at Home...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home featuring lupus highlights from #CRArthritis, we are sharing our interview with Dr. Andrea Fava, Faculty Member at the Johns Hopkins Lupus Center. Dr. Fava speaks about his RheumNow presentation on how a liquid biopsy for lupus nephritis can benefit patients.  Dr. Fava defines what lupus nephritis and systemic lupus erythematosus are. He follows with a definiti...

May is Lupus Awareness Month in Canada! Join us this May on Arthritis At Home as we share lupus highlights from #CRArthritis 2026. Lupus is a complex autoimmune disease that affects nearly every part of life, including health, work, family and emotional wellbeing.  In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Sasha Bernatsky, a rheumatologist and James M...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are excited to raise awareness for World AS Day (happening on May 2) by sharing the #CRArthritis 2026 interview with Dr. Walter Maksymowych, a Professor in the Department of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. World AS Day is an annual day dedicated to people living with axial spondyloarthritis.  Dr. Walter Maksymowych defines what biomarke...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are excited to share the #CRArthritis 2026 interview with Dr. Jean-Paul Makhzoum, clinician-scientist specializing in vasculitis at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal.  Dr. Makhzoum shares highlights from a presentation titled “Lighting up the arteries: How imaging and therapies are reshaping large vessel vasculitis”. He defines what large-vessel vascul...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Nadia Luca, an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa who practices as a pediatric rheumatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Dr. Luca discusses about the development of the national clinical guidelines for transition in rheumatology in Canada.  In addition, she offers valuable advi...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, Arthritis Consumer Experts’ President, Cheryl Koehn, and VP of Communications and Public Affairs, Kelly Lendvoy, discuss ACE’s 12th year of hosting #CRArthritis, bringing the latest research from the annual meeting directly to people with arthritis on their computer, phone or iPad. ACE’s digital platform, Arthritis Broadcast Network (ABN), will air interviews...

March is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month! In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are raising awareness about juvenile arthritis by sharing tips on transitioning from juvenile to adult arthritis care. Hear from Matthew Sholdice, Makayla Fox and Anusha Patel, young peoples living with arthritis and the McMaster team behind Road to Adult Arthritis Care, a website with resources for youth, caregi...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, host Cheryl Koehn speaks with Deidre Mackechnie, Executive Officer of the Australian Patient Advocacy Alliance, about her organization’s partnering with the Patients and patents campaign. The interview will explore what the Australian Patient Advocacy Alliance does for patients, why the Patients and patents campaign is important for patients in Australia, and...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we speak with Dr. Stephanie Keeling about the results of the National Survey on Lupus conducted by Arthritis Consumer Experts and Lupus Canada. Dr. Keeling will review the Survey highlights, including the difficulty people with lupus face getting diagnosed and the challenges they face remaining physically active and happy in all aspects of their lives. Dr. Kee...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Ms. Julie Herrington, an Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner with ACPAC (Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Arthritis Care) training working with the pediatric and young adult rheumatology teams at McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario.  In her discussion with Cheryl, she shares highlights from her tw...

In this episode of Arthritis at Home, we explore an issue that affects every person who relies on medication to manage their disease: why are some medications so expensive, and what role do pharmaceutical patents play in access to affordable treatment?  Host Kelly Lendvoy speaks with Cheryl Koehn, President, Arthritis Consumer Experts, about the launch of the new Patients and patents website as pa...

What does mental health really look like when you are living with arthritis? In a new episode of Arthritis at Home, Kelly Lendvoy talks to Cheryl Koehn, President, Arthritis Consumer Experts about the emotional challenges of living with arthritis and the launch of JointHealth™ Education – Arthritis and Mental Health, covering important topics for people living with arthritis: What patients told us...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are featuring the #CRArthritis with Dr. Inés Colmegna, clinician-scientist in the Division of Rheumatology at McGill University. Dr. Colmegna talks about a poster she presented at the Canadian Rheumatology Association’s Annual Scientific Meeting. She explains why blind studies are important in studying the therapeutic effects of scleroderma and shares some...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are featuring the #CRArthritis with Dr. Alexandra Saltman, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine in the University of Toronto, and clinician teacher in the Division of Rheumatology and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network. Dr. Saltman shares her unique perspective about integrating palliative care in rheumatolo...

In this episode of Arthritis at Home, Ellen Wang, Programs Coordinator at Arthritis Consumer Experts, has a discussion with Dr. Carrie Ye, an Associate Professor from the University of Alberta, about rheum-oncology and artificial intelligence in rheumatology.  Carrie shared how her interests developed at the intersection of patient care, epidemiology, and complex systemic disease, particularly in...

In this special episode of Arthritis at Home, Kelly Lendvoy, ACE’s VP, Communications & Public Affairs, speaks with Drs. Michelle Batthish and Karen Beattie, and Matthew Sholdice – the McMaster University team that has launched a new online resource called the Road to Adult Arthritis Care . The website was co-created with youth, parents, and caregivers, to help young people living with arthrit...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are featuring the #CRArthritis with Dr. Tom Appleton, Division Head of Rheumatology at St. Joseph’s Health Care London and Western University London. In his discussion with Cheryl Koehn, founder of Arthritis Consumer Experts, Tom talks about risk factors for osteoarthritis and some of the misconceptions about arthritis and osteoarthritis.  Additional learni...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are featuring the #CRArthritis with Dr. Marie Westby, a clinician-scientist at the Centre for Aging SMART, a physical therapy clinical resource educator at the Mary Pack Arthritis Programs and a clinical professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia.  Dr. Westby speaks with Cheryl Koehn, ACE’s Founder and President, a...