Dr. Afton Hassett is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her work focuses on psychological factors in rheumatologic conditions.
This website is the idea of the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases (NDB). We do research in rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, lupus, fibromyalgia, and other arthritis and arthritis-like conditions.
We have brought together a group of international rheumatology experts who can answer questions that you have. Some are professors, some clinicians, and some are both. We will try to give you straight and useful answers. We have no sponsors, no pharmaceutical company is paying for or supporting this project, and none of us gets...