Overview
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 Lupus Nephritis. His top areas of expertise are Sjogren Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Arthritis, and Interstitial Keratitis.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 136 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Lupus Nephritis.
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Locations
5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Floor 1, Floor 1, Baltimore, MD 21224
4940 Eastern Avenue, Bayview Medical Offices, Level 01 (G), Clinic 5, Baltimore, MD 21224
Clinical Research
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Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
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 Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Lupus Nephritis. Her top areas of expertise are Lupus Nephritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE), Tenotomy, and Osteotomy.
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Andrea Fava is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Fava is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Lupus Nephritis. His top areas of expertise are Lupus Nephritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Scleroderma, and Systemic Sclerosis (SSc).
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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 rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Lupus Nephritis. Her top areas of expertise are Lupus Nephritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE), and Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE).
Areas of Expertise
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- Elite
- Sjogren SyndromeDr. Baer isElite. Learn about Sjogren Syndrome.
- Distinguished
- ArthritisDr. Baer isDistinguished. Learn about Arthritis.
- GoutDr. Baer isDistinguished. Learn about Gout.
- Interstitial KeratitisDr. Baer isDistinguished. Learn about Interstitial Keratitis.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)Dr. Baer isDistinguished. Learn about Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
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- CryoglobulinemiaDr. Baer isAdvanced. Learn about Cryoglobulinemia.
- Familial Mixed Cryoglobulinemia
- Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
- Relapsing PolychondritisDr. Baer isAdvanced. Learn about Relapsing Polychondritis.
- ScleritisDr. Baer isAdvanced. Learn about Scleritis.
- VasculitisDr. Baer isAdvanced. Learn about Vasculitis.
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- Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis
- Ankylosing SpondylitisDr. Baer isExperienced. Learn about Ankylosing Spondylitis.
- Antisynthetase SyndromeDr. Baer isExperienced. Learn about Antisynthetase Syndrome.
- Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA)Dr. Baer isExperienced. Learn about Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA).
- DermatomyositisDr. Baer isExperienced. Learn about Dermatomyositis.
- Eosinophilia-Myalgia SyndromeDr. Baer isExperienced. Learn about Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome.