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Laura
Kuusalo
Clinical Lecturer, Internal Medicine
MD, PhD
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Areas of expertise
Internal medicine
Rheumatology
Early rheumatoid arthritis
Osteoarthritis
Mobile health
Remote monitoring
Biography
I'm a specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine and physician scientist. I am currently president of the Finnish Society for Rheumatology (2023–2024). I am actively developing Finnish Rheumatology Quality register and have been a member of the register working group since 2021. I am currently mentoring two PhD students.
Teaching
I am clinical lecturer in internal medicine. In addition to teaching clinical internal medicine, I am responsible for rheumatology basic education.
Research
My research interests focus broadly on inflammatory rheumatic diseases and their genetic, clinical, epidemiological, and health-economical aspects, including clinical application of machine learning models in rheumatology.
Publications
Similar levels of disease activity and remission rates in patients with psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis-results from the Finnish quality register (2024)
Clinical Rheumatology
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Patient-reported outcomes in axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis patients treated with secukinumab for 24 months in daily clinical practice (2024)
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
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Milloin epäillä reumasairautta ja aloittaa selvittelyt sen toteamiseksi? (2023)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))Nivelreumapotilaan arviointi ja seuranta (2023)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))Kliinisen tutkimisen periaatteet ja tutkimuksen tekeminen (2023)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))Development of prediction model for alanine transaminase elevations during the first 6 months of conventional synthetic DMARD treatment (2023)
Scientific Reports
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Erikoislääkärin uutiset. Reumataudit (2023)
Duodecim
(Muu (O2))
Alaraajojen kliininen tutkiminen (2023)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))Disease burden measured by patient-reported outcomes: does psoriatic arthritis feel worse than rheumatoid arthritis? A cross-sectional nationwide study (2023)
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
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The feasibility of existing JADAS10 cut-off values in clinical practice: a study of data from The Finnish Rheumatology Quality Register (2023)
Pediatric Rheumatology
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