Dr. Julie Paik completed her medical school training at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. She then completed her residency and chief residency at UCLA-Cedars-Sinai/VA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She completed rheumatology fellowship at Johns Hopkins and joined the faculty in 2013. She currently sees patients at the Johns Hopkins Myositis Center and Scleroderma Center. Her research interests are in myositis and scleroderma or overlap myositis. She also has a special interest in novel therapeutics in refractory dermatomyositis. This provider is registered with the Florida Department of Health to perform telehealth services for patients in Florida. Dr. Paik is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Myositis, and Scleroderma.

Marc Hochberg is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hochberg is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Knee Replacement, and Hip Replacement.

Nasser Nasseri-Asl is a Rheumatologist in Catonsville, Maryland. Dr. Nasseri-Asl is highly rated in 17 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome, Antisynthetase Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease (UCTD). Dr. Nasseri-Asl is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Philip Seo is an Associate Professor in the Division of Rheumatology. A graduate of Harvard College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, Dr. Seo completed his Internal Medicine training as a member of the Osler Medical Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Since then, he has worked at Johns Hopkins in several capacities, including as a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and as an Assistant Chief of Service of the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, before joining the Division of Rheumatology. Dr. Seo is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center and Director of the Johns Hopkins Rheumatology Fellowship Program. His clinical interests lie in the assessment and treatment of patients with systemic vasculitis, in particular, the ANCA-associated vasculitides, which include granulomatosis with polyangiitis, microscopic polyangiitis, and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Dr. Seo is highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis, Vasculitis, Microscopic Polyangiitis, Takayasu Arteritis, and Tissue Biopsy.

Michelle Petri, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She attended medical school at Harvard University and fulfilled her internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition, she completed two fellowship programs at the University of California, San Francisco in allergy and immunology and rheumatology. Dr. Petri is the Director of the Hopkins Lupus Cohort, a longitudinal study of morbidity and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus, and Co-Director of the Hopkins Lupus Pregnancy Center. Dr. Petri is highly rated in 13 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Lupus Nephritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE), Tenotomy, and Osteotomy.

Dr. Wigley received his M.D. degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He completed an internship and residency at Johns Hopkins where he also trained in a postdoctoral fellowship program. Dr. Wigley is a physician-scientist whose specialty is Raynaud’s phenomenon and scleroderma. He founded The Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center with Robert A. Wise, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins Division of Pulmonary Medicine. Dr. Wigley has been honored with two American College of Rheumatology awards over the past couple years. He received the ACR Distinguished Clinician Scholar Award in 2009 and the ACR Masters Award in 2011. Dr. Wigley is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Raynaud Phenomenon, and Scleroma.

Dr. Ana-Maria Orbai is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include rheumatology and psoriatic arthritis. Dr. Orbai earned her M.D. from the Iuliu Hatieganu School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, in Romania. She completed internship and residency training in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University-Sinai Hospital program. Subsequently, Dr. Orbai completed her post-doctoral fellowship training in rheumatology at Johns Hopkins. During her fellowship she earned her Master in Health Sciences degree in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Orbai directs the Psoriatic Arthritis Program in the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center. Her clinical focus is psoriatic arthritis and spodyloarthritis. Dr. Orbai's research aims to understand psoriatic disease subtypes and improve treatment strategies for people with psoriatic arthritis. Dr. Orbai was awarded a Rheumatology Research Foundation Scientist Development award in 2014 and a Jerome L Greene Foundation Scholar award in 2018. Dr. Orbai is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Psoriatic Arthritis, Psoriasis, Arthritis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).

Andrea Fava is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Fava is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Lupus Nephritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Scleroderma, and Systemic Sclerosis (SSc).

Dr. Christopher-Stine is the Co-Founder and Director of the Johns Hopkins Myositis Center. She is a Professor of Medicine and Neurology. She is a longstanding core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine College Advisory Program and serves as the Co-Chair of the Johns Hopkins Institutional Review Board (IRB 5). Dr. Christopher-Stine graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in chemistry from Franklin and Marshall College; was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha at Hahnemann University School of Medicine, where she received her MD degree, and she attained her Masters of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her internship and residency training were completed at MCP Hahnemann University, where she also served as Chief Resident. She pursued her rheumatology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Christopher is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Myositis, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Inclusion Body Myositis.

Howard Hauptman is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hauptman has been practicing medicine for over 44 years is highly rated in 38 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Rhizomelic Pseudopolyarthritis, Sjogren Syndrome, and Polymyalgia Rheumatica. Dr. Hauptman is currently accepting new patients.

Tazeen Rehman is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Rehman is highly rated in 22 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Psoriatic Arthritis, Psoriasis, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and Fibromyalgia.

Sam Serafi is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Serafi is highly rated in 21 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Fibromyalgia, Raynaud Phenomenon, Sjogren Syndrome, and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).

Lanaya Smith is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Smith is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, MASS Phenotype, IgG4-Related Disease, MAGIC Syndrome, and Tissue Biopsy. Dr. Smith is currently accepting new patients.

Jazibeh Qureshi is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Qureshi is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are IgG4-Related Disease, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus Infections, MAGIC Syndrome, and Light Chain Deposition Disease (LCDD). Dr. Qureshi is currently accepting new patients.

Francesca Okoye is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Okoye has been practicing medicine for over 17 years is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal Osteoporosis, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, and Rhizomelic Pseudopolyarthritis. Dr. Okoye is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Alan Baer graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1978 and completed his post-graduate medical training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt University Hospitals. He was a faculty member at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, from 1986 to 2007, and served there as Chief of the Section of Rheumatology and Fellowship Program Director. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2007 and is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Jerome L. Greene Sjogren's Syndrome Center. Since 2015, he has been an Investigator in the Sjogren's Syndrome Clinic at the National Institutes of Health. He was Chief of Rheumatology and Clinical Director of the Johns Hopkins University Rheumatology Practice at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland from 2007 to 2014. Dr. Baer is currently engaged in a number of research studies in the area of Sjogren's syndrome, both at Johns Hopkins and in the NIH Sjogren's Syndrome Clinic. He was the principal investigator of the NIH subcontract to Johns Hopkins to conduct the Sjogren's International Registry (SICCA) and enrolled 300 patients into the registry. The SICCA registry has been a rich source of clinical data and biospecimens for research that Dr. Baer is conducting with colleagues at both Hopkins and the University of California-San Francisco. He is conducting a longitudinal observational study of patients with Sjogren's syndrome. Dr. Baer is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Sjogren Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Arthritis, and Interstitial Keratitis.

Dr. Christopher A. Mecoli is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is rheumatology. A physician-scientist, Dr. Mecoli serves on the faculty of Johns Hopkins Myositis Center and Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. He earned his M.D. from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He completed an internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a rheumatology fellowship at Johns Hopkins. He also holds an M.H.S. in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Mecoli is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Dermatomyositis, Myositis, Scleroderma, and Polymyositis.

Seyed Forghani-Saeidabadi is a Rheumatologist in Catonsville, Maryland. Dr. Forghani-Saeidabadi is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Antisynthetase Syndrome, Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome, Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease (UCTD), and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Dr. Forghani-Saeidabadi is currently accepting new patients.

Laura Hummers is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology. She graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. She then pursued her rheumatology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and has since been on the faculty working at the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center since 2003 where she has been Co-Director of the Center. She received her ScM degree through the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation from the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2010. Dr. Hummers also serves as Clinical Director for the Division of Rheumatology. Dr. Hummers actively participates in a number of clinical trials and clinical investigations at the Scleroderma Center and has a particular interest in predictors of outcomes in scleroderma. She actively manages a large patient practice focused exclusively on scleroderma and related conditions at Johns Hopkins and actively helps to manage the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center longitudinal database. She also has specific expertise in other scleroderma-like conditions such as scleromyxedema, scleredema and eosinophilic fasciitis. Dr. Hummers is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Eosinophilic Fasciitis, and Scleroma.

Bansari Gujar is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Gujar is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Fibromyalgia, Psoriatic Arthritis, and Psoriasis.

Jamal Mikdashi is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Mikdashi is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Sarcoidosis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Neurosarcoidosis, and Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE). Dr. Mikdashi is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Homa Timlin is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include systemic lupus erythematosus, and lupus nephritis. Dr. Timlin serves on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Consultative Rheumatology Clinic. A member of the Royal College of Physicians, Dr. Timlin earned her medical degree at Romania’s Universitatea de Medicana Si Farmacie Carol Davila. Upon completion of rheumatology fellowships, Oxford in the United Kingdom and an internal medicine residency in the United States, she joined the Johns Hopkins Lupus Center in 2011. After a one-year postdoctoral lupus fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Michelle Petri, she finished her post-doctoral fellowship in rheumatology at Johns Hopkins. She also holds a master’s degree in clinical immunology (London University), MRCP diploma (Member of the Royal College of Physicians), Certificate of Completion of Specialty Training (CCST). Dr. Timlin has been an active educator who works with trainees at all levels, nationally and internationally, in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Presently, Dr. Timlin has established a retrospective cohort of several hundred patients with lupus and lupus nephritis, and site lead at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Timlin is the medical chair for the local chapter of Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) and the director of an IRB-approved prospective human diagnostic study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate lupus nephritis. This provider is registered with the Florida Department of Health to perform telehealth services for patients in Florida. Dr. Timlin is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Lupus Nephritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE), and Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE).

Ebrahim Talebi-Quje is a Rheumatologist and a Geriatrics provider in Catonsville, Maryland. Dr. Talebi-Quje is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome, Antisynthetase Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Dr. Talebi-Quje is currently accepting new patients.

Karan Chawdhary is a Rheumatologist in Halethorpe, Maryland. Dr. Chawdhary is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Rhizomelic Pseudopolyarthritis, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Chondrocalcinosis 2, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), and Tissue Biopsy.

Dr. Allan Gelber is Professor of Medicine and Deputy Director for Education and Faculty Development in the Division of Rheumatology. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and is Associate Faculty at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research. Dr. Gelber is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and received both his MPH and PhD degrees (the latter in Clinical Investigation) at the Bloomberg School. He pursued internship and residency training in internal medicine at Duke University and then undertook his fellowship training in rheumatology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Gelber has had an active role as an Educator in the Rheumatic Diseases. He previously served as Fellowship Program Director at Johns Hopkins from 2001-2011. Thereafter, he shifted his primary educational focus from rheumatology fellows to medical students, and to internal medicine housestaff on the Bayview and Johns Hopkins campuses. He directs the Musculoskeletal Section of the Genes-to-Society Course to the 2nd year medical school class. Currently, Dr. Gelber serves as Thayer Firm Faculty Leader of the Osler Medical Training Program. and among the Aliki Scholars at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Gelber chairs the M.D. Admissions Committee at the School of Medicine. Dr. Gelber is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Gout, Arthritis, Scleroderma, Knee Replacement, and Endoscopy.