
Overview
Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein focuses on neuromuscular diseases, with a particular focus on Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Other clinical areas relevant to his laboratory-based research include idiopathic stupor, epilepsy, and motor neuron degeneration. His laboratory includes more than 25 post-doctoral fellows, neurology residents, neuromuscular fellows, junior faculty, undergraduate students, technicians, and ALS clinic staff. He has been the principal and/or local investigator in more than 20 national or international trials in ALS. He is the author of more than 360 articles on basic and clinical neuroscience. Dr. Rothstein's laboratory research is funded through the National Institutes of Health, the Dept of Defense, Target ALS, Maryland TEDCO, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the ALS Association, and Answer ALS. Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein received a masters degree in neurochemistry from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in physiology and biophysics from the University of Illinois Health Sciences Center. He then obtained his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He went on to complete an internship at the University of North Carolina Memorial Hospital before joining The Johns Hopkins for his residency. While at Johns Hopkins, he became chief resident in neurology and completed his fellowship in neuromuscular disease. He has been Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins for more than 25 years.
His clinical expertise encompasses Stroke and Epilepsy.
Dr. Rothstein is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology. Dr. Rothstein is currently accepting new patients.
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Locations
Floor 5, Baltimore, MD 21287
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Rothstein 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.
National Institute Of Arthritis And Musculoskeletal And Skin Diseases
Dr. Andrew Mammen, MD is a Neurology Specialist in Baltimore, MD. He is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Mammen is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myositis, Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Necrotizing Myopathy (NM). Dr. Mammen is board certified in MD State Medical License 2004-2023. Dr. Mammen is currently accepting new patients.
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Arens Taga is a neurologist specializing in neuromuscular diseases, with a particular focus on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other motor neuron diseases. His clinical work aims to improve the quality of care for patients with ALS through biomarker-based, precision medicine approaches that refine disease stratification and facilitate more targeted and efficient enrollment in clinical trials. As a clinician-scientist, Dr. Taga uses patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells to model ALS, uncover novel disease mechanisms and identify therapeutic targets that are translatable to clinical trials. In recognition of his work in ALS, Dr. Taga was awarded the 2025 Richard Olney Clinician Scientist Development Award, which honors early-career physician-scientists dedicated to advancing ALS research. Dr. Taga earned his medical degree from the School of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Parma, Italy, where he also completed his neurology residency. He subsequently trained at The Johns Hopkins University, completing a postdoctoral research fellowship in the neuromuscular division, an internal medicine internship, a neurology residency and a neuromuscular clinical fellowship. Dr. Taga is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses 15q11.2 Microdeletion, Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease), and Cluster Headache. Dr. Taga is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology. Dr. Taga is currently accepting new patients.
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Nicholas Maragakis treats patients with motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This care is coordinated with the Johns Hopkins Center for ALS Specialty Care, a multidisciplinary clinic with expertise in treating patients with ALS and providing support to their caregivers. He serves as medical director of the ALS Clinical Trials Unit, an extension of the multidisciplinary clinic that seeks to facilitate opportunities for patients with ALS to participate in clinical trials that could advance the treatment of this disease. Dr. Maragakis is interested in the basic science of understanding neurodegenerative diseases, as well as the translational potential of therapeutic compounds developed in the laboratory. His fundamental research interest is in using stem cells — more specifically, stem cell-derived motor neurons and glia — for understanding the development and propagation of ALS. His laboratory has been involved in creating and characterizing lines of stem cells from patients with ALS using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) methodologies. The laboratory has a large library of iPSCs from patients with familial ALS and from patients with sporadic ALS. The utilization of this library of iPSCs has facilitated the development of a spinal cord-specific iPSC-astrocyte/motor neuron co-culture system, which has been leveraged for the development of assays that can be used for both the basic understanding of ALS astrocyte and motor neuron biology as well as, eventually, drug screening for ALS therapeutics. His laboratory has taken its long-standing interests in astrocyte biology, as it relates to ALS, to develop a program that investigates astrocyte-specific mechanisms as contributors to the progression (both temporally and anatomically) of disease in ALS. In this vein, there is an interest in astrocytic glutamate transporters and, more recently, astrocyte hemichannels and gap junctions. Dr. Maragakis is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses 15q11.2 Microdeletion, Sandhoff Disease, Foot Drop, and Pseudobulbar Affect. Dr. Maragakis is currently accepting new patients.
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