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
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
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Deep Learning Enables Automatic Detection of Joint Damage Progression in Rheumatoid Arthritis-Model Development and External Validation (2024)
Rheumatology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Intense symptoms of pain are associated with poor sleep, fibromyalgia, depression and sleep apnea in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. A register based study (2024)
Joint Bone Spine
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
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
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Comparing DAPSA, DAPSA28, and DAS28-CRP in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis Initiating a First Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Across Nine European Countries (2024)
Arthritis care and research
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Development of prediction model for alanine transaminase elevations during the first 6 months of conventional synthetic DMARD treatment (2023)
Scientific Reports
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Nivelreumapotilaan arviointi ja seuranta (2023)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))The feasibility of existing JADAS10 cut-off values in clinical practice: a study of data from The Finnish Rheumatology Quality Register (2023)
Pediatric Rheumatology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Milloin epäillä reumasairautta ja aloittaa selvittelyt sen toteamiseksi? (2023)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))Erikoislääkärin uutiset. Reumataudit (2023)
Duodecim
(O2 Muu julkaisu )