Dan and Janet are thrilled to welcome the University of Alberta's Dr. Mo Osman to 'Around the Rheum' for a fascinating conversation about scleroderma and chronic fatique. Dr. Osman is a clinician scientist who is interested in better understanding the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis. He also uses point-of-care vascular devices for risk stratifying patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs). His team was recognized as making one of the Top 10 research advances of 2023 by Arthritis Society Canada. They discovered intriguing similarities between systemic sclerosis and cancer and uncovered a new biological marker for scleroderma. 

Dr. Osman is an Associate Professor and Rheumatologist with a focus in Clinical Immunology. He is the Director of the Systemic Sclerosis and Microvascular Clinics at the University of Alberta.

If you have questions you would like answered by the experts, please get in touch through the CRA Twitter account (@crascrrheum) or by email (Info@rheum.ca). And for future Medical Mysteries episodes, please get in touch with us if you have challenging cases you want to present on the podcast!

A special thank you to the podcast team, Dr. Dax G. Rumsey (CRA Communications Committee Chair), Dr. Daniel Ennis (Host), Dr. Janet Pope (Co-Host), David McGuffin (Producer, Explore Podcast Productions), and Erin Stewart (Marketing and Communications Director, CRA) for leading production. Our theme music was composed by Aaron Fontwell. For more on the work of the Canadian Rheumatology Association, visit www.rheum.ca (http://www.rheum.ca/) or check out our X (Twitter) account - @CRASCRRheum

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