Web Site Contributors

Frances Bellantoni, M.D.

• Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Medical Director, Long-Term Care, Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center
• Medical Director, Osteoporosis Center, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Research Interests:

• Postmenopausal osteoporosis in elderly females
• Heel ultrasound as a screening test for osteoporosis

Clinical Interests:

• Osteoporosis
• Geriatrics

Education:

• M.D.: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Internship and Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Geriatric Medicine
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: National Institute on Aging, NIH, Endocrinology

Joan M. Bathon, M.D.

Appointments:

• Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Director, Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center
• Co-Deputy Director, Division of Rheumatology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Research Interests:

• Mechanisms of inflammation and joint destruction

Lisa Christopher-Stine, M.D., M.P.H.

Appointments:

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Education:

• M.P.H.: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• M.D.: Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
• Internship and Residency: MCP Hahnemann University Hospitals, Philadelphia

Michael Clark, M.D., M.P.H.

Appointments:

• Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Research Interests:

• Psychiatric Epidemiology
• Longitudinal Outcome Studies
• Clinical Trials

Clinical Interests:

• Patients with Chronic Physical Symptoms and Diseases
• Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
• Psychiatric Education in Managed Care Organizations

Education:

• M.D.: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
• M.P.H.: University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology
• M.B.A.: Medical Services Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Professional Studies in Business and Education
• Internship and Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Chief Resident: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: University of Washington, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Rita Falcone, M.D.

Dr. Falcone is the Director of the Comprehensive Vascular Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland. Her areas of specialization include echocardiography with expertise in the areas of transthoracic echocardiography, stress testing and transesophageal echocardiograms. She is the Associate Director of Non-Invasive Imaging and an attending in the Cardiac Intensive Care unit at Hopkins Bayview. She is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in Cardiovascular Medicine. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the Council on Stroke and Radiology of the American Heart Association. Her clinical interests include coronary artery disease, stroke and aortic diseases, pre-operative testing in vascular surgery and exercise training in patients with peripheral vascular disease.

John Flynn, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R.

Appointments:

• Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Division of General Internal Medicine
• Clinical Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
• Director, Spondyloarthritis Program

Research Interests: 

• Research that advances the treatment of psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis and the arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease.

Education:

• M.D.: University of Missouri
• Internship and Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

David Hellmann, M.D.

Appointments:

• Mary Betty Stevens Professor of Medicine Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Chairman Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Research Interests:

• Evaluation of patients with Takayasus arteritis and temporal arteritis

Clinical Interests:

• Takayasus arteritis
• Wegener’s granulomatosis
• Giant cell arteritis

Education:

• M.D.: The Johns Hopkins University
• Internship and Residency: The Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: University of California San Francisco, Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology

Allan C. Gelber, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Appointments

• Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University
• Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Program, Johns Hopkins University
• Joint Appointment, Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests

• Incidence and risk factors for osteoarthritis
• Prevalence of osteoarthritis and Raynaud’s phenomenon in the African American community
• Home-based exercise intervention for knee osteoarthritis in an inner-city African American community located in Baltimore, MD.
• Racial differences in survival in scleroderma
• Enhancing clinical education in rheumatology available to medical students and internal medicine residents
• Identification of novel autoantibodies in relation to distinct clinical phenotypes in Sjogren’s syndrome

Clinical Interests:

• General Rheumatology

Education:

• Ph.D.: in Clinical Investigation, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• M.P.H.: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management
• M.D.: The Johns Hopkins University
• Internship and Residency: Duke University Medical Center
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Rheumatology

Jon Giles, M.D.

Appointments:

• Assistant Professor of Medicine , Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Education:

• M.D.: Vanderbilt University
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Rheumatology
• Internship and Residency: University of California, San Diego

Stuart Levine, M.D.

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Selected Publications:

• PubMed

Education:

• M.D.: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Rheumatology
• Internship and Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Awards and Honors:

• American College of Rheumatology Fellowship Award (2003)
• Maryland Arthritis Research Council (MARRC) Senior Fellowship Award (2003)
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society

Shari Ling, M.D.

Appointments:

• Staff Clinician with the Clinical Research Branch of the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program

Research Interests:

• Muscle Malfunction in Osteoarthritis
• Osteoarthritis and Osteoporosis
• Aging Muscles, Bones, and Joints
• Inflammation Effects on Drug Metabolism

Clinical Interests:

• Osteoarthritis

Education:

• M.D.: Georgetown University
• Internship and Residency: Georgetown University
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: Georgetown University, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology & Allergy
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

Appointments

• Assistant Professor In Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Co-Director, Rapid Arthritis Care and Evaluation (RACE) Center, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Clinical Interests:

Dr Pappas evaluates adult patients with inflammatory arthritis. He has an expertise in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and concurrent Interstitial Lung Disease or Cardiac involvement. He has incorporated the musculoskeletal ultrasound technology for diagnostic and interventional purposes in patient care and research.

Research Interests:

Dr Pappas is the awardee of the prestigious MARRC Senior Fellowship award for his laboratory based research which was focused on the role of the enzyme PAD4 in the pathogenesis of Rheumatoid arthritis. His clinical – translational research project is investigating the specifics of interstitial lung disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Dr Pappas is also involved in registry based research and in comparative effectiveness studies for therapeutic agents used in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Education:

• Rheumatology: Johns Hopkins University (2006-2008)
• Masters in Public Health: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2007- present)
• Internal Medicine: Albany Medical College – Union University (2003-2006)
• M.D.: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1993-1999)

Antony Rosen, M.D

Appointments

• Director of Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Professor Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests:

• Alterations of autoantigen structure in apoptotic cells and effects on immunogenicity

Education:

• M.D.: University of Cape Town [MB ChB-M.D. equivalent]
• Research Associate: The Rockerfeller University
• Internship and Residency: The Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Rheumatology

Brian Schwartz, M.D., M.S.

Appointments:

• Professor and Director,
  Division of Occupational and Environmental Health,
  Department of Environmental Health Sciences,
  Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health

Research Interests:

• Epidemiology of Lyme disease and other vector-borne diseases
• Development of biologic markers of tick exposure

Clinical Interests:

• Lyme disease

Education:

• M.D.: Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL
• M.S.: Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
• Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Fellowship in General Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• Fellowship in Occupational Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health

Andrea Slotkoff Marx, M.D.

Appointments:

• Assistant Professor, Part-time Faculty, Department of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Clinical Interests:

• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Fibromyalgia

Education:

• M.D.: Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
• Internship and Residency: Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Georgetown University
• Chief Resident: Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Georgetown University
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: Georgetown University, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy

Alan Matsumoto, M.D.

Michelle Petri, M.D., M.P.H.

Appointments:

• Professor Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Co-director Hopkins Lupus Pregnancy Center

Research Interests:

Aspects of Systemic lupus erythematosus including:

• Thrombotic events
• Antiphospholipid antibodies
• Coronary artery disease
• Pregnancy loss and preterm birth
• Health status
• Measurement of lupus disease activity
• Longitudinal study of the predictive value of complement split products as laboratory measure of disease in lupus
• Avascular of bone

Clinical Interests:

• Systemic lupus erythematosus

Education:

• M.P.H.: Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Epidemiology
• M.D.: Harvard Medical School
• Internship and Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco, Allergy and Immunology/Rheumatology

William W. Scott, Jr, M.D.

Appointments:

• Associate Professor of Radiology and Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
• Director of Orthopaedic Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Clinical Interests:

• Diagnostic Radiology

Education:

• B.A.: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• M.D.: Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
• Internship: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, Pathology
• Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, Diagnostic Radiology

Mark Soloski, Ph.D.

Appointments

• Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Joint appointments in the Departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Pathology, and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Research Interests

• Understand the role MHC class Ib molecules play in innate and adaptive immunity
• Identify and characterize the role the mucosal immune compartment plays in the clearance of enteric bacterial infection and the development of immunity
• Understand how infection with enteric bacteria is linked to the subsequent development of inflammatory arthritis

Education

• Ph.D.: Rutgers University, Thesis Title: Vaccinia Virus: Studies on DNA-protein interactions occurring in the cytoplasm of infected cells and in mature virions.

John Stone, M.D.

Appointments

• Associate Professor Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Co-Deputy Director, Division of Rheumatology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Research Interests

• Study and treatment of vasculitic diseases

Clinical Interests

• Vasculitic diseases

Education

• M.P.H.: University of California, Berkeley
• M.D.: Harvard Medical School
• Internship and Residency: The Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco, Rheumatology

Fredrick Wigley, M.D.

Appointments

• Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Associate Director of the Division of Rheumatology
• Director of Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center

Research Interests

• Understanding the pathogenesis of Raynaud’s phenomenon and systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
• Treatment and management of scleroderma
• Treatment of Raynaud’s phenomenon

Clinical Interests

• The Rheumatic diseases
• Scleroderma
• Raynaud’s phenomenon

Carol Ziminski, M.D.

Appointments

• Associate Professor Division of Molecular and Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
• Deputy Director Johns Hopkins Division of Rheumatology, Good Samaritan Hospital

Research Interests

• Clinical studies of undifferentiated connective tissue disease

Clinical Interests

• Broad interest in rheumatic diseases

Education

• M.D.: Yale University
• Internship and Residency: The Johns Hopkins Hospital,
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Rheumatology