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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 7

Y'all totally crushed it this year!!! Thanks so much for playing!!!!

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WashU Medicine Division of Rheumatology @washumedrheum.bsky.social · Apr 7

We are so proud of our fellows for placing #2 in this years #RheumMadness tournament!! We lost to our great friends (Duke Rheum) which makes it hurt a little less. We also finished #1 in Rheumatology Fellowship Brackets and #2 of brackets overall so we can’t wait to celebrate that as well! 🎉 (1/3)

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 7

You were an amazing panelist!!! Thank you for all your contributions to the tournament this year!

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 7

The final results of #RheumMadness 2025 are out!

Read more about the panel's choices on our website, plus our list of thank you-s to all our collaborators who make this possible!
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness/

Thank you all for another great year!

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 5

Round 3 of #RheumMadness is complete!

Read how the Blue Ribbon Panel voted here:
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness/

How's your bracket?

RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 5

Haha we will see... Round 3 results coming in soon.

RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 3

Haha whichever one was yours, I'm sure it was excellent!

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 3

Congrats!

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WashU Medicine Division of Rheumatology @washumedrheum.bsky.social · Apr 3

We’re so excited to have made Final Four in #RheumMadness! 🏀☄️ We’re also tied for first in our bracket submission! What can we say, we can read the rheum! Fingers crossed that it’s only up from here! 🤞

RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 3

Results from round 2 of #RheumMadness 2025 are out!

Read more about how our Blue Ribbon Panel voted here:
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness/

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 3

Results from round 2 of #RheumMadness 2025 are out!

Read more about how our Blue Ribbon Panel voted here:
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness/

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 2

Welcome to bluesky! I'm finding this place to be a less distracting and more engaging space (so far). We will see!

Thanks as always for playing. Who knows, maybe CAR-T will try again in a few years once some trials come out...

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angusworthing.bsky.social @angusworthing.bsky.social · Apr 2

My first post! Good news/bad news- #RheumMadness 2025 is here! Aaaaaand my bracket is busted on day 1! Blue Ribbon Panel did not *ahem* appreciate the promise of CAR-T cures like I do. Cheers to great scouting report writers, RM leadership, and the 3 outstanding BRP voters who saw it my way 🤣

RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 1

#RheumMadness Round 1 Results are in!

We had 3 blowouts and one MASSIVE upset.

Read a full report of the Blue Ribbon Panel's votes and justifications here:
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness/

Round 2 results coming April 3

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Laura Arneson, MD @larneson.bsky.social · Apr 1

United to bring the Chicago 🏀 legacy to RheumMadness - great to be part of this team!

RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Mar 26

Scouting report written collaboratively by fellows from U Chicago, Northwestern, and Loyola.
@larneson.bsky.social @mbriones.bsky.social

Chicago fellowships bringing the 🔥!

Full scouting report here:
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness...

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Oral anti-IL-23 - RheumMadness

Team: The Oral Biologic Frontier Base article: Bissonnette R, Pinter A, Ferris LK, Gerdes S, Rich P, Vender R, Miller M, Shen YK, Kannan A, Li S, DeKlotz C, Papp K. An Oral Interleukin-23-Receptor Ant...

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 1

So crazy!!!

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Saori Abe @oriabe114.bsky.social · Apr 1

Round 1 Results are in!!
And I’m currently rank no.1🥳

Off to a good start✨
#RheumMadness #Rheumsky

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 1

#RheumMadness Round 1 Results are in!

We had 3 blowouts and one MASSIVE upset.

Read a full report of the Blue Ribbon Panel's votes and justifications here:
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness/

Round 2 results coming April 3

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 1

Thank you!! Good luck!!

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Mikayla Brockmeyer DO, MS @mikaylabrockmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 1

Submitted my picks!

CD-19 CAR T-Cells feel like the automatic bid, but do they have what it takes to come home with a W? 🏀🌟🎱

RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 1

⏳THREE HOURS LEFT⌛️

Submit your #RheumMadness bracket before 11:59pm ET!!!

Submit here:
www.tourneytopia.com/RheumMadness...

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 1

⏳THREE HOURS LEFT⌛️

Submit your #RheumMadness bracket before 11:59pm ET!!!

Submit here:
www.tourneytopia.com/RheumMadness...

RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Apr 1

Last team in the #RheumMadness countdown: CD19 CAR-T Cell Therapy in Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease.

👇Scouting report by Vandy Rheum👇
sites.duke.edu/rheummadness...

CD-19 CAR T-Cells - RheumMadness

Team: B-Cell Busters Base article: Müller F, Taubmann J, Bucci L, Wilhelm A, Bergmann C, Völkl S, Aigner M, Rothe T, Minopoulou I, Tur C, Knitza J, Kharboutli S, Kretschmann S, Vasova I, Spoerl S, Rei...

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Mar 31

Small caveat to the poem - it's new in rheum, but obinutuzumab has been in use in oncology for a while.

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Mar 31

LAST DAY TO SUBMIT #RHEUMMADNESS BRACKETS

Two more teams to cover in our countdown.

Meet obitnutuzumab in lupus nephritis, a poem:

Team based on phase II
but phase III just published too.
What will the panel do
about this new monoclonal (type 2)?

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Obinutuzumab in Lupus Nephritis - RheumMadness

Team: Obinutuzumab’s Got Game Base article: Furie RA, Aroca G, Cascino MD, Garg JP, Rovin BH, Alvarez A, Fragoso-Loyo H, Zuta-Santillan E, Schindler T, Brunetta P, Looney CM, Hassan I, Malvar A. B-ce...

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Mar 31

Love this!!

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WashU Medicine Division of Rheumatology @washumedrheum.bsky.social · Mar 6

The fellows putting together their @rheummadness.bsky.social 2025 bracket! There are so many great scouting reports this year and we can’t wait to see where we land with the #BlueRibbonPanel! 🏀

#chooserheum #rheumatology #RheumMadness

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RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social · Mar 31

Never played #RheumMadness ?

Think you don't have enough time to submit your bracket?

Think again. Submit with two simple steps:
1. Watch the 2-minute explainer video below
2. Head over to the tournament website and submit a bracket (IT'S FREE)

26.5 hours left!

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