The 20 Best Myositis Doctors in The United States

Chester V. Oddis, MD is a noted researcher in the clinical, epidemiological and serologic description of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. He has completed epidemiological studies on the incidence of polymyositis and dermatomyositis as well as longitudinal studies on functional disability in myositis patients. His focus has been in the autoantibody patterns in patients with inflammatory myopathy and their peculiar immunogenetic associations.Dr. Oddis has written extensively on the diagnosis and management of patients with myositis. He has published and lectured on the use of novel immunosuppressive agents such as tacrolimus (formerly FK506) in the treatment of patients with refractory myositis. This represents the only reported experience of this particular drug in the pharmacologic treatment of inflammatory myopathy. In collaboration with the Department of Neurology, he has assessed the efficacy and utility of outpatient needle muscle biopsy in the diagnosis of inflammatory myopathy. This is important given the cost-containment focus of the current health-care market.Dr. Oddis is the co-investigator on an important national NIH funded study on the efficacy of doxycycline in preventing the progression of knee osteoarthritis in middle-aged women. This study is the first of its kind in assessing the effect of a disease-modifying agent in osteoarthritis.Board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology, Dr. Oddis received his medical degree from Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Penn State and fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Oddis is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 12 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, and Antisynthetase Syndrome. Dr. Oddis is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine and American Board Of Internal Medicine. Dr. Oddis is currently accepting new patients.

Andrew Mammen is a Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine specialist and a Neurologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Mammen is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 10 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Necrotizing Myopathy (NM). Dr. Mammen is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology.

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 Myositis. She is also highly rated in 10 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Inclusion Body Myositis. Dr. Christopher is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine.

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 Myositis. She is also highly rated in 11 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Myositis, and Scleroderma. Dr. Paik is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine.

Mazen Dimachkie is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Fairway, Kansas. He has been practicing medicine for over 38 years. Dr. Dimachkie is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 39 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Inclusion Body Myositis, Myasthenia Gravis, Thymectomy, and Tissue Biopsy. Dr. Dimachkie is board certified in United Council For Neurologic Subspecialties, Clinical Neuromuscular Pathology - 2015 , American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology, Neuromuscular Medicine - 2008 , American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology - 1996 , and American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology, Neurology - 1995. Dr. Dimachkie is currently accepting new patients.

Siamak Moghadam-Kia, MD, specializes in rheumatology and is certified in internal medicine and rheumatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He practices at University of Pittsburgh Physicians, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and is affiliated with UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, UPMC Mercy, and UPMC Presbyterian. He received his medical degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and completed his residency at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital / Medstar Washington Hospital Center, followed by his rheumatology fellowship at UPMC. Dr. Moghadam is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 5 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, and Antisynthetase Syndrome. Dr. Moghadam is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine. Dr. Moghadam is currently accepting new patients.

Richard Barohn is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Kansas City, Kansas. Dr. Barohn is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 21 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Inclusion Body Myositis, Myasthenia Gravis, Myositis, Thymectomy, and Tissue Biopsy.

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 Myositis. He is also highly rated in 9 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Dermatomyositis, Myositis, Polymyositis, and Scleroderma.

Marinos Dalakas is a Neurologist and a Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine provider practicing medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Dalakas is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 16 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Stiff Person Syndrome, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, Hereditary Hyperekplexia, Chronic Polyradiculoneuritis, and Laminectomy. Dr. Dalakas is board certified in Neurology. Dr. Dalakas is currently accepting new patients.

Christina Charles is a Rheumatologist practicing medicine in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Charles is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. She is also highly rated in 8 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Myositis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Dr. Charles is board certified in Rheumatology, American Board Of Internal Medicine, 2005.

Rohit Aggarwal is a Rheumatologist practicing medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Aggarwal is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 23 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, and Antisynthetase Syndrome. Dr. Aggarwal is board certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.

Didem Saygin is a Rheumatologist practicing medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Saygin is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. She is also highly rated in 4 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Polymyositis, Interstitial Lung Disease, and Antisynthetase Syndrome. Dr. Saygin is board certified in Rheumatology.

Dana Ascherman is a Rheumatologist practicing medicine in Miami, Florida. Dr. Ascherman is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 14 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Rheumatoid Lung Disease, Dermatomyositis, and Polymyositis.

Anthony Amato is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Amato is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 63 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Inclusion Body Myositis, Myositis, Polymyositis, Thymectomy, and Gastrostomy. Dr. Amato is board certified in Neurology, 1991 and Neuromuscular Medicine, 2008.

Dr. Tahseen Mozaffar is a board-certified UCI Health neurologist who specialize in neuromuscular disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), myasthenia gravis, inflammatory myopathies, Pompe disease, muscle pathology and all types of muscular dystrophies.He serves as director of the UCI Health ALS & Neuromuscular Center, one of only six Muscular Dystrophy Association-designated centers in California.Mozaffar earned his medical degree at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, where he completed a rotating internship in internal medicine and general surgery. He completed a neurology residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., followed by a fellowship in neuromuscular disorders at Washington University, also in St. Louis.His research focus includes clinical and translational studies of neuromuscular disorders and he is the principal site investigator of more than a dozen clinical trials for myasthenia gravis, immune myopathies and rare and ultra-rare myopathies. He is also the lead UCI investigator for NeuroNEXT, a collaborative national effort to help streamline phase 2 clinical trials for brain disorders that is supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).As an expert in rare and ultra-rare myopathies, he advises many pharmaceutical companies on clinical trial design and the identification of disease targets. He serves on a Pompe disease advisory board for Amicus Therapeutics and Spark Therapeutics, as well as on the data safety monitoring board for Acceleron and Sarepta Therapeutics. He also is a reviewer with the Emerging Technologies and Training in Neurosciences (ETTN) group for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has co-authored more than 175 peer-reviewed publications and has written or co-written more than a dozen book chapters and reviews.Mozaffar, who is also fluent in Hindi and Urdu, sees patients inIrvineandOrange. Dr. Mozaffar is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 31 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Pompe Disease, Inclusion Body Myositis, Myositis, Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, and Thymectomy. Dr. Mozaffar is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology - Neurology.

Dr. Namita Goyal is a board-certified, fellowship-trained UCI Health neurologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders. She serves as co-director of theUCI Health ALS Neuromuscular Center, one of only six Muscular Dystrophy Association-designated centers in California.Her clinical interests include muscular dystrophies, muscle disease, myasthenia gravis, myositis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and demyelinating neuropathies. Certified in electrodiagnostic medicine, she performs a number of procedures including adult and pediatric electromyogram (EMG), single-fiber EMG and muscle biopsies.Goyal received her medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine in Bridgetown, Barbados. She completed a residency in neurology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in electromyography, clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular disease at Harvard University’s Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she subsequently served as a faculty member.Her research interests include ALS, myositis, muscular dystrophies, myopathies and myasthenia gravis. She is the lead site investigator for several clinical trials involving neuromuscular diseases, with a special focus on ALS and myositis, and directs neurology clinical trials for the UCI School of Medicine. She also is the author of several published articles on neuromuscular disorders and is a frequent guest speaker at national conferences.In addition to her clinical and research work, she is a mentor to neurology fellows and residents and serves as director of the Department of Neurology's neuromuscular medicine fellowship program.Goyal sees patients inIrvineandOrange. Dr. Goyal is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. She is also highly rated in 19 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Inclusion Body Myositis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease), Myositis, and Primary Lateral Sclerosis. Dr. Goyal is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology - Neurology and American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology - Neuromuscular Medicine.

Eleni Tiniakou is a Rheumatologist practicing medicine in Houston, Texas. She has been practicing medicine for over 20 years. Dr. Tiniakou is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. She is also highly rated in 7 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Dermatomyositis, Myositis, Polymyositis, and Necrotizing Myopathy (NM).

Floranne Ernste is a Rheumatologist practicing medicine in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Dr. Ernste is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. She is also highly rated in 25 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Myositis, Inclusion Body Myositis, and Tissue Biopsy.

Richard Rolen is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Johnson City, Tennessee. Dr. Rolen is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Myositis. He is also highly rated in 35 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Acute Coronary Syndrome, Kyphosis, Vitamin D Deficiency, and Kallmann Syndrome. Dr. Rolen is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine.

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 Myositis. He is also highly rated in 19 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, Antisynthetase Syndrome, and Lung Transplant.