Overview
Dr. Laura Cappelli is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include rheumatology and adverse effects from cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Cappelli earned her M.D. from Johns Hopkins. She completed her residency in internal medicine and performed a fellowship in rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has a MHS in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Cappelli focuses on immune related adverse events due to cancer immunotherapy and all forms of inflammatory arthritis. She co-directs the Immune-related toxicity team which provides clinical, research and educational support for immune related adverse events. Her primary research interest is inflammatory arthritis due to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. She also studies rheumatoid arthritis.
Dr. Cappelli is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Eosinophilic Fasciitis. Her top areas of expertise are Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Rhizomelic Pseudopolyarthritis, and Polymyalgia Rheumatica.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 73 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
4940 Eastern Avenue, Bayview Medical Offices, Level 01 (G), Clinic 5, Bayview Medical Offices, Level 01 (G), Clinic 5, Baltimore, MD 21224
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Cappelli has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
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Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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 Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Eosinophilic Fasciitis. Her top areas of expertise are Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Eosinophilic Fasciitis, and Scleroma.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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 a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Eosinophilic Fasciitis. His top areas of expertise are Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Raynaud Phenomenon, and Scleroma.
Medstar Medical Group Ii LLC
Virginia Steen is a Rheumatologist and an Allergy and Immunologist in Washington, Washington, D.c.. Dr. Steen is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Eosinophilic Fasciitis. Her top areas of expertise are Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Kuru, and Scleroma.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- ArthritisDr. Cappelli isDistinguished. Learn about Arthritis.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)Dr. Cappelli isDistinguished. Learn about Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
- Advanced
- Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease
- Polymyalgia RheumaticaDr. Cappelli isAdvanced. Learn about Polymyalgia Rheumatica.
- Rhizomelic PseudopolyarthritisDr. Cappelli isAdvanced. Learn about Rhizomelic Pseudopolyarthritis.
- Sjogren SyndromeDr. Cappelli isAdvanced. Learn about Sjogren Syndrome.
- TenosynovitisDr. Cappelli isAdvanced. Learn about Tenosynovitis.
- Experienced
- Behcet DiseaseDr. Cappelli isExperienced. Learn about Behcet Disease.
- Eosinophilic FasciitisDr. Cappelli isExperienced. Learn about Eosinophilic Fasciitis.
- Lupus NephritisDr. Cappelli isExperienced. Learn about Lupus Nephritis.
- MASS PhenotypeDr. Cappelli isExperienced. Learn about MASS Phenotype.
- Mixed Connective Tissue DiseaseDr. Cappelli isExperienced. Learn about Mixed Connective Tissue Disease.
- MyositisDr. Cappelli isExperienced. Learn about Myositis.