Dr. John Aucott is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. An internist and Lyme disease expert in the Division of Rheumatology, he is the director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center. With more than 15 years of research experience on the crippling effects of Lyme disease, he has published studies focusing on characteristics of early Lyme disease differences in males and females with an emphasis on prospects for prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Aucott received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. He is fellowship-trained in infectious disease and geographic medicine. Dr. Aucott and his colleagues were recognized by Johns Hopkins with a Discovery Fund Synergy Award in 2014. Dr. Aucott is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Lyme Disease, Synovitis, Reactive Arthritis, and Long Haul COVID.

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).

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.

Sadia Khan is a Rheumatologist in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Khan is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease (UCTD), Rhizomelic Pseudopolyarthritis, and Polymyalgia Rheumatica. Dr. Khan is currently accepting new patients.

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.

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).

Seema Patel is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Patel has been practicing medicine for over 18 years is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Fibromyalgia, Raynaud Phenomenon, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE).

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).

Susanna Jeurling is a Rheumatologist in Lutherville, Maryland. Her top areas of expertise are Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Raynaud Phenomenon, Fibromyalgia, and Rhizomelic Pseudopolyarthritis.

Dr. Ira Fine is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He serves as chairman of the Board of Governors at Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, where he practices internal medicine, specializing in rheumatology. A member of numerous medical and professional organizations, Dr. Fine is also a member of the Hospital Board of Directors. Dr. Fine received his medical degree from the University of Maryland and completed a medical internship and residency at the University of Maryland Hospital. He completed a clinical fellowship in rheumatology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He helped establish the Dr. Ira T. Fine Discovery Fund, a grant program that supports innovative research into arthritis and inflammatory diseases. His top areas of expertise are Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Juvenile Temporal Arteritis, Temporal Arteritis, and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA).

Marisa Mizus is a Rheumatologist and a Hospital Medicine provider in Lutherville, Maryland. Her top areas of expertise are Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease (UCTD), Raynaud Phenomenon, Rheumatoid Vasculitis, and Lupus Nephritis. Dr. Mizus 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.

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).

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.

Dr. Ami Shah is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Shah also serves as the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. Her areas of clinical expertise include rheumatology, particularly scleroderma and Raynaud's phenomenon. She is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency training at Stanford University Hospital & Clinics and rheumatology post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins. During her fellowship training, she earned her Master of Health Science in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Shah’s clinical practice is focused on the broad spectrum of patients with scleroderma and related disorders, and her expertise includes management of complications such as Raynaud’s phenomenon, digital ischemia, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac dysfunction, myopathy, aggressive skin disease and concomitant cancer. Dr. Shah teaches post-doctoral fellows in her clinic about the evaluation and management of scleroderma. Dr. Shah’s research program has focused on the interface between cancer and autoimmunity in scleroderma, myositis and the newly emerging area of immune-related adverse events due to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. In highly collaborative studies, her group has published seminal observations linking cancer with the development of autoimmunity in scleroderma, with implications for cancer screening strategies in this population and the potential to shed insight into the pathogenesis of paraneoplastic rheumatic disease. In addition to her work in cancer and autoimmunity, Dr. Shah has an active research program in other clinical and therapeutic aspects of scleroderma, including early detection of cardiopulmonary complications and improving outcome measures and therapeutics for Raynaud's phenomenon. Dr. Shah also directs rheumatology precision medicine initiatives through the Johns Hopkins Individualized Health (inHealth) Initiative. The division’s program seeks to harness technological resources for comprehensive data collection and harmonization, strengthen novel data analytic approaches including defining unique patient subgroups, and accelerate the incorporation of discoveries into the delivery of clinical care. Dr. Shah has been a recipient of the ACR Research and Education Foundation Clinical Investigator Fellowship Award. In 2018, her research contributions were recognized at the 5th Systemic Sclerosis World Congress with receipt of the Edith Busch Prize for Young Investigators. In 2020, she was honored to receive the prestigious Henry Kunkel Young Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology. She is a member of the American College of Rheumatology. Dr. Shah is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Scleroderma, Scleroma, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), and Scleredema.

Lynn Ludmer is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Ludmer is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Calcium Pyrophosphate Arthritis, and Sjogren Syndrome. Dr. Ludmer is currently accepting new patients.

John Meyerhoff is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Meyerhoff is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Lupus Nephritis, Polymyositis, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis.

George Stojan is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Stojan is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease (UCTD), Lupus Nephritis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).