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
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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 )
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
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Erikoislääkärin uutiset. Reumataudit (2023)
Duodecim
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
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
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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))
Erikoislääkärin uutiset. Reumataudit (2023)
Duodecim
(O2 Muu julkaisu )