Arthritis At Home (+ On the Go)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is today being used in arthritis care to help doctors make diagnoses, suggest treatment options, predict symptom changes, or answer health questions through virtual assistants or chatbots (like ChatGPT).  In this episode of Arthritis at Home, Cheryl Koehn and Kelly Lendvoy talk about the launch of ACE’s National Survey on Artificial Intelligence and Arthritis Care. The...

June is Pride Month – a time dedicated to celebrating 2SLGBTQQIA+ communities and their resilience, advocating for equal rights and a world free from fear, violence or discrimination. According to data from the 2019 to 2021 Canadian Community Health Survey, 1 in 10 youth aged 15 to 24 years reported being 2SLGBTQQIA+. Amongst this population, 3 in 10 considered their mental health to be fair or po...

National Health and Fitness Day – an annual coast-to-coast celebration of wellness – is held on the first Saturday of June. To inspire you to be active on June 7, today’s Arthritis At Home will feature the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Manuel Ester (Manny).  Manny is a post-doctoral associate working with Dr. Claire Barber at the University of Calgary’s McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Kerri Novak, an Assistant Professor with the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.  Dr. Novak and Ellen Wang, ACE’s Programs Coordinator, discuss the utility of non-invasive ultrasound for the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), IBD and its...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Arielle Mendel, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Rheumatology at McGill University. Dr. Mendel’s research focuses on patient safety in systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. She aims to improve medication safety for people living with arthritis by studying the root causes of adverse drug effects.  In...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Muhammad Mamdani, Vice President of Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Unity Health Toronto.  Dr. Mamdani presented a keynote presentation at this year’s CRA annual scientific meeting called Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine: Moving from Hype to Reality.  Dr. Mamdani provides some real-world...

In honour of #WorldLupusDay, this episode of #ArthritisAtHome will highlight the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Stephanie Keeling, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta and a member of the lupus working group – consisting of lupus specialists from across Canada along with two national patient organizations, Arthritis Consumer Experts and Lupus Canada. Dr....

Saturday, May 3 is World AS Day – an annual day dedicated to people living with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA).  AxSpA is a chronic rheumatic disease that can cause severe pain and stiffness in the lower back, hips and buttocks and if left untreated can cause permanent damage to your spine. The pain often gets worse with rest and often appears before the age of 40.  In honour of #WorldASDay2025,...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Mr. Shawn Brady, Vice President Rehabilitation & Education Program and Innovation at Arthritis Society Canada.  Wait times are significantly increasing in accessing specialty care, like rheumatology, in particular in remote or underserved communities. Kelly Lendvoy, ACE’s Vice President of Communications and P...

In this episode of Arthritis at Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Alaa Shehab, a Fellow at SickKids The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, about her “Clinical pearls and mysterious cases” presentation at this year’s meeting. Before working at SickKids, she was a staff and educator at Kuwait for the pediatric residency program. Dr. Shehab explains a mysterious case of aut...

In this episode of Arthritis at Home, we are sharing the #CRArthriits interview with Dr. Victoria Werth. Dr. Werth presented at CRA RheumReview: Canadian Clinical Updates – a full-day virtual event that runs concurrently with the Canadian Rheumatology Association Annual Scientific Meeting and is designed to update rheumatologists on hot topics in arthritis research. She speaks with ACE’s Kelly Len...

In this episode of Arthritis at Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Jackie Whittaker. Ellen Wang, ACE’s Programs Coordinator, interviews Dr. Whittaker about her Arthritis Health Professions Association Pre-Course session titled StopOsteoARthritis (SOAR), a virtually delivered knee health program for persons living with increased risk of osteoarthritis (OA) due to activity rela...

In this episode of Arthritis at Home, Kelly Lendvoy interviews Ms. Deb Fowler from Ottawa, Ontario. Ms. Fowler has been living 17 years with dermatomyositis, a rare inflammatory autoimmune disease. She shares her experience living with dermatomyositis, from diagnosis, its affect on daily life to treatment and the barriers to accessing certain therapies like physiotherapy and pain management. Ms. F...

In this episode of #ArthritisAtHome, we are sharing the #CRArthritis 2025 interview with Mr. Nathan Barreth, a Public Health Science Student of Medicine at the University of Calgary. He joins ACE’s Kelly Lendvoy to review his participation in a workshop focussed on systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs) and some of the unmet needs in SARD patients, the impact of SARDs on our healthcare sys...

March is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month in Canada. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a type of autoimmune inflammatory arthritis that can be seen in children under the age of 16 years. JIA affects up to three in 1000 children and is one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood. In this episode of #ArthritisAtHome, we are sharing the #CRArthritis 2025 interview with Dr. Lori Tucker...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing episode 1 of  #CRArthritis 2025! Arthritis Consumer Experts’ President, Cheryl Koehn, and VP of Communications and Public Affairs, Kelly Lendvoy, discuss the impact of #CRArthritis for people living with arthritis. They also talk about the history of the #CRArthritis event and how it has become a tool for knowledge translation and inspiring coll...

In this episode of #ArthritisAtHome, we are sharing Part 3 of the Yoga with Ellen series. Ellen Wang, ACE’s Programs Coordinator, takes the audience through a 20-minute flow that is focused on releasing the legs, hips and glutes. You will learn how to lengthen some of the largest muscle in the body and become aware of differences on the left and right sides of the body. The entire practice is done...

In honour of Wear Red Canada to raise awareness about women’s heart health, we are sharing this #ArthritisAtHome with Dr. Keith Colaco on some of the common risk factors for cardiovascular disease and arthritis and the tools that can be used to predict risk. He also highlights the role of advocacy by researchers, health care providers and patients. Dr. Keith Colaco is an Assistant Professor of Tea...

In this episode of #ArthritisAtHome, we are sharing Part 2 of the Yoga with Ellen series. Ellen Wang, ACE’s Programs Coordinator, takes the audience through a 20-minute yoga sequence that is focused on the trunk area including the core, side body and low back. Engage the core, lift out of the pelvis, and build some heat as you flow through seated movements. Then Ellen combines her practical knowle...

To help kickstart your exercise goals for the year, we are sharing Part 1 of the #ArthritisAtHome Yoga with Ellen series.  In this episode, ACE’s Programs Coordinator Ellen Wang, takes the audience through a 20-minute yoga practice that is focused on carefully articulating the head, neck, chest and upper back. Learn to ground deeply, set an intention for your practice and breath into unexplored ar...

In a new episode of Arthritis at Home, Cheryl Koehn speaks with Dr. Stephanie Keeling, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta and a member of the lupus working group – consisting of lupus specialists from across Canada along with two national patient organizations, Arthritis Consumer Experts and Lupus Canada. Together, they discuss the two common types of l...

In this Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Hani El-Gabalawy, Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the University of Manitoba. He discusses about rheumatoid arthritis prediction and prevention, and the impact of rheumatoid arthritis on Indigenous Peoples. About Dr. Hani El-Gabalawy Dr. Hani El-Gabalawy is a physician and researcher, and an endowed Rheumatology...

In this Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Ms. Morag Crocker, occupational therapist and occupational therapy practice coordinator at the Mary Pack Arthritis Program. She shares how travelling occupational therapy works and explains what the tertiary arthritis program is at the Mary Pack Arthritis Centre. Furthermore, she provides a definition of what complex osteoar...

In this Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Ms. Michelle Bridge, President of Arthritis Health Professions Association. She explains what the Arthritis Health Professions Association does and what it offers for its members and the arthritis community. She further highlights the role that allied health care professionals play in arthritis care.  Additional learning res...

To our Arthritis at Home audience and to people living with arthritis across Canada, ACE wishes you a safe and healthy holiday as we celebrate this Winter Solstice in the spirit of peace, rest, and reflection. Arthritis Consumer Experts (ACE) finds itself reflecting over a quarter century of meaningful service to people with arthritis as it celebrates its 25th anniversary this December. In this sp...