Learn about current research aiming to improve the lives of these patients living with rheumatic disease with funding from the Rheumatology Research Foundation.

• The Patient

Ally Kopec

““When I first started experiencing symptoms, I was told I had growing pains. I was the only student in my school who spent 10 days in the hospital, unable to walk because of pain in my legs. Finally, I was diagnosed at 23 with rheumatoid arthritis, 26 years ago.” Had her doctors understood rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic diseases, Ally could have begun treatment for her RA much sooner.