The 20 Best Dermatomyositis Doctors in Maryland, US

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 rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Myositis, and Scleroderma.

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 rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Myositis, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Inclusion Body Myositis.

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 rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Dermatomyositis, Myositis, Scleroderma, and Polymyositis.

Dr. Andrew Mammen, MD is a Neurology Specialist in Baltimore, MD. He is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Mammen is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Myositis, Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, and Necrotizing Myopathy (NM).

Lisa Rider is a Pediatric Rheumatologist in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Rider is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Juvenile Dermatomyositis, Dermatomyositis, Arthritis, and Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA).

Iago Pinal is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Pinal is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Myositis, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, Antisynthetase Syndrome, and Lung Transplant.

Dr. Brit Adler is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at Johns Hopkins University. She is building a career as a translational physician-scientist with a focus on Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and infection-associated chronic illnesses. Her interest in this area emerged from her work in general rheumatology, where she frequently encountered patients with POTS, an often-overlooked and understudied condition. She is particularly interested in investigating the immune dysregulation underlying POTS, Long COVID, and Chronic Lyme Disease. By leveraging her prior experience in autoantibody discovery in rheumatic diseases, Dr. Adler aims to deepen our understanding of these conditions. In addition to her work in general rheumatology, Dr. Adler leads a dedicated POTS clinic and evaluates patients in the Hopkins Autonomic Lab, furthering her commitment to improving care for patients with autonomic disorders. She earned her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Following this, she pursued a clinical and research fellowship in Rheumatology at Johns Hopkins. This provider is registered with the Florida Department of Health to perform telehealth services for patients in Florida. Dr. Adler is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Myositis, and Inclusion Body Myositis.

Dr. Albayda is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology. She is the Director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program, as well as Director of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Injection Clinic. Nationally, she is involved in MSK Ultrasound education and has expertise in arthritis and inflammatory myopathies. Her research focuses on imaging biomarkers in rheumatic diseases, developing muscle ultrasound, clinical phenotypes in myositis, as well as longitudinal care and therapeutics in inclusion body myositis. Dr. Albayda is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Dermatomyositis, Temple Syndrome, Pallister-Killian Mosaic Syndrome, and Inclusion Body Myositis.

Jun Kang is a Dermatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Kang is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Dermatomyositis, Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE), Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE), and Localized Scleroderma.

Dr. Grant Anhalt is a professor of dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include autoimmune skin diseases and dermatoimmunology. Dr. Anhalt serves as the director of the Dermatoimmunology Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree and his M.D. from the University of Manitoba. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Health Sciences Center in Winnipeg, Canada and a residency in dermatology at the University of Michigan. He performed a fellowship in immunodermatology at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Dr. Anhalt joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1982. He was interim chair of the Department of Dermatology from 1996 to 2001. His research interests include autoimmunity, bullous skin diseases and pemphigus and pemphigoid. Dr. Anhalt serves on the medical advisory board for the International Pemphigus & Pemphigoid Foundation. He has been recognized as a top doctor in the Washington Post Magazine, Baltimore Magazine and Castle Connolly Guide. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Dermatology, American Dermatologic Association and American Society for Clinical Investigation. CV http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/dermatology/our_experts/CV/Anhalt_CV_2014.docx. Dr. Anhalt is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Pemphigus Vulgaris, Pemphigus, Pemphigus Foliaceus, and Bullous Pemphigoid.

Dr. Antony Rosen was an Osler resident and rheumatology fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, where he was appointed a professor in 2002. He served as director of the Division of Rheumatology between 2002 and 2022, overseeing a substantial expansion in the fellowship program and building the faculty from 14 to 26, and has been the Vice Dean for Research since 2013. Dr. Rosen received his medical degree from the University of Cape Town in South Africa in 1984 with first-class honors. After completing his internship in medicine & surgery and a year of postdoctoral study in medical biochemistry, he joined Dr. Alan Aderem at the Rockefeller University to pursue postdoctoral studies in immunology and cellular biology. Dr. Rosen is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Scleroderma, and Systemic Sclerosis (SSc).

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 rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Lupus Nephritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE), and Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE).

Alison Ehrlich is a Dermatologist in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Dr. Ehrlich is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Contact Dermatitis, Juvenile Dermatomyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Psoriasis.

Dr. Grader-Beck is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Rheumatology Division. Dr. Grader-Beck’s clinical expertise includes the diagnosis and treatment of Sjogren's syndrome as well as inflammatory arthritis. He has a specific interest in improving quality of patient care and clinical research using state of the art information technology. He is developing innovative ways in how clinicians and researchers can leverage electronic health record systems to deliver individualized patient care and precision medicine. Dr. Grader is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Sjogren Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Interstitial Keratitis, and Dermatomyositis.

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 rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Raynaud Phenomenon, and Scleroma.

Dr. Leung obtained her undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences from Harvard University. While attending medical school at Duke University, she completed a year-long research fellowship studying genetic markers of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease at the National Institute on Aging as part of the NIH Clinical Research Training Program. She completed her neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the graduate training program in clinical investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Leung joined the Center for Genetic Muscle Disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute as a translational research fellow in 2010 and was appointed to the faculty in 2014. Her clinic specializes in electromyography and the diagnosis and treatment of hereditary muscle diseases. Dr. Leung’s research focuses on the development of imaging biomarkers and outcome measures for muscle diseases. She is the principal investigator for a longitudinal cohort study of whole-body MRI in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Dr. Leung is also a site principal investigator for the Ionis-DMPKRx trial, a phase Ib/IIa clinical trial of a novel RNA-based therapy for myotonic muscular dystrophy. Dr. Leung is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD), Dysferlinopathy, Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 2I, and Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy.

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 rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Eosinophilic Fasciitis, and Scleroma.

Dr. Jaroslaw Jedrych is an assistant professor of dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include dermatopathology and anatomic pathology. Dr. Jedrych received his M.D. from the Warsaw Medical University. He completed his residency in anatomic pathology at Yale School of Medicine, where he served as chief resident. He then completed his fellowship in oncologic pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as chief fellow, and a dermatopathology fellowship at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Jedrych is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, Trichoepithelioma, Warts, and Grover's Disease.

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 rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. His top areas of expertise are Sjogren Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Arthritis, and Interstitial Keratitis.

Dr. Joy Wan is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include pediatric dermatology and atopic dermatitis. Dr. Wan received her undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences from Harvard University and her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed dermatology residency training at the University of Pennsylvania and pediatric dermatology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She also pursued postdoctoral research training in clinical epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wan joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2021. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Wan leads an active research program focused on epidemiologic and patient-oriented investigations of pediatric skin diseases including eczema. Dr. Wan is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Dermatomyositis. Her top areas of expertise are Atopic Dermatitis, Infantile Digital Fibromatosis, PHACE Syndrome, and Psoriasis.