Overview
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 Sjogren Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Raynaud Phenomenon, and Scleroma.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 108 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
Floor 1, Baltimore, MD 21224
Clinical Research
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Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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 a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Sjogren Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Sjogren Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Arthritis, and Interstitial Keratitis.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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 a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Sjogren Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Sjogren Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Interstitial Keratitis, and Dermatomyositis.
Gabor Illei is a Rheumatologist in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Illei is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Sjogren Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Sjogren Syndrome, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE), and Lupus Nephritis.
Areas of Expertise
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- Elite
- Raynaud PhenomenonDr. Wigley isElite. Learn about Raynaud Phenomenon.
- SclerodermaDr. Wigley isElite. Learn about Scleroderma.
- Systemic Sclerosis (SSc)Dr. Wigley isElite. Learn about Systemic Sclerosis (SSc).
- Distinguished
- Localized SclerodermaDr. Wigley isDistinguished. Learn about Localized Scleroderma.
- ScleromaDr. Wigley isDistinguished. Learn about Scleroma.
- Advanced
- ErythromelalgiaDr. Wigley isAdvanced. Learn about Erythromelalgia.
- MyositisDr. Wigley isAdvanced. Learn about Myositis.
- Experienced
- Antisynthetase SyndromeDr. Wigley isExperienced. Learn about Antisynthetase Syndrome.
- ArthritisDr. Wigley isExperienced. Learn about Arthritis.
- CryoglobulinemiaDr. Wigley isExperienced. Learn about Cryoglobulinemia.
- DermatomyositisDr. Wigley isExperienced. Learn about Dermatomyositis.
- Eosinophilia-Myalgia SyndromeDr. Wigley isExperienced. Learn about Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome.
- Eosinophilic FasciitisDr. Wigley isExperienced. Learn about Eosinophilic Fasciitis.