The Modern Psoriatic Care Team
EP: 1.Recent Achievements in Psoriatic Arthritis Management
EP: 2.Fitting Biologics into the Psoriatic Arthritis Spectrum
EP: 3.Achieving Individualized Psoriatic Arthritis Care
EP: 4.Most Promising Psoriatic Arthritis
EP: 5.Highlighted Psoriatic Arthritis Sessions at ACR 2020
EP: 6.How Different Psoriatic Arthritis Manifestations Affect Care
EP: 7.The Modern Psoriatic Care Team
EP: 8.The Psoriatic Patient's Role in Improving Care
EP: 9.What Should Highlight ACR 2021
EP: 10.Current Issues in nr-axSpA Diagnostics
EP: 11.Takeaways from Four-Year RAPID-axSpA Data
EP: 12.Takeaways from the 52-Week C-axSpAnd Trial
Christopher T. Richtlin, MD, MPH: Well, there are many centers around the country—ours is one, there's New York, Philadelphia, Boston—where we see patients with dermatologists. So, the patient was psoriatic disease is evaluated by a dermatologist, rheumatologist, often trainees, rheumatology fellows, and dermatology residents. We find that this is a very effective strategy to be able to discuss the various elements of the patient's presentation with dermatology present to provide perspectives.
But it goes beyond that rheumatology-dermatology dyad. There's also other elements that relate to the comorbidities I just mentioned, and that includes gastroenterology, cardiovascular disease, endocrinology, and, of course, the general practitioner. This is a team that really is virtual and real. So, the "real team," in terms of being in the office include dermatology and rheumatology, but they're reaching out to these other caregivers to address specific problems that these patients are addressing. We also use psychiatry a lot, and nutrition for weight loss and optimizing dietary regimens. So, there's a lot of support that's required for some patients in order for them to manage the journey with this disease.
