Laura
Kuusalo
Clinical Lecturer, Internal Medicine
MD, PhD
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Areas of expertise
Internal medicine
Rheumatology
Early rheumatoid arthritis
SLE
Osteoarthritis
Mobile health
Remote monitoring
Biography
I'm a specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine and a physician scientist. I am currently the president of the Finnish Society for Rheumatology (2023–2024). I am actively involved in developing the 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 undergraduate rheumatology teaching.
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
(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 )
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 )
Initial presentation of early rheumatoid arthritis (2023)
PLoS ONE
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Do Long-term Patient-reported Outcomes Improve Similarly in Psoriatic Arthritis and Axial Spondyloarthritis Patients Treated with Secukinumab? Results from the EuroSpA Collaboration (2023)
Arthritis and Rheumatology
(Abstrakti)
Potilaan haastattelu reumapoliklinikan ensikäynnillä (2023)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))Erikoislääkärin uutiset. Reumataudit (2023)
Duodecim
(O2 Muu julkaisu )