Overview
Dr. Thomas is a native of Ellicott City, MD, and attended the University of Maryland where she earned her B.S. with majors in Neurobiology and Physiology. Afterwards she graduated from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and then completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Rheumatology Fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC.
Dr. Thomas has received multiple scholarships and awards throughout her academic and medical careers, was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society in November 2008, and was awarded the William P. Argy Teaching Resident Award in 2011. Dr. Thomas has been named a “Top Doctor” by Washingtonian Magazine for multiple consecutive years, as well as by Arlington Magazine and Northern Virginia Magazine. She has co-authored several articles and abstracts, presented research on Systemic Sclerosis at the American College of Rheumatology national meeting in Chicago in November 2011, and is the first author of a manuscript on tuberculous arthritis that has recently been accepted for publication.
Dr. Thomas is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology and is a member of the American College of Rheumatology. Her areas of interest include systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout, psoriatic arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis.
Dr. Thomas is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Sjogren Syndrome. Her top areas of expertise are Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and Ankylosing Spondylitis.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 3 peer reviewed articles and participating in 1 clinical trial. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
8270 Willow Oaks Corporate Dr Ste 150, Fairfax, VA 22031
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Thomas 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
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
1 Clinical Trials
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.
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.
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.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- OsteoporosisDr. Thomas isDistinguished. Learn about Osteoporosis.
- Postmenopausal OsteoporosisDr. Thomas isDistinguished. Learn about Postmenopausal Osteoporosis.
- Advanced
- Ankylosing SpondylitisDr. Thomas isAdvanced. Learn about Ankylosing Spondylitis.
- Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA)Dr. Thomas isAdvanced. Learn about Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA).
- BursitisDr. Thomas isAdvanced. Learn about Bursitis.
- GoutDr. Thomas isAdvanced. Learn about Gout.
- MelorheostosisDr. Thomas isAdvanced. Learn about Melorheostosis.
- Melorheostosis with Osteopoikilosis
- Experienced
- Adult Still's DiseaseDr. Thomas isExperienced. Learn about Adult Still's Disease.
- Behcet DiseaseDr. Thomas isExperienced. Learn about Behcet Disease.
- Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE)Dr. Thomas isExperienced. Learn about Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE).
- DermatomyositisDr. Thomas isExperienced. Learn about Dermatomyositis.
- Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE)Dr. Thomas isExperienced. Learn about Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE).
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)Dr. Thomas isExperienced. Learn about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS).