2009 Course Faculty
Course Directors
Joan Bathon, MD
Professor of Medicine
Deputy Director, Division of Rheumatology
Director, The Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center
Stuart Levine, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, The Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center
Division of Rheumatology
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Faculty
William Bishai, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Co-Director, Center for Tuberculosis Research
Jon Giles, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Carl Johnson, MD
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Sonye Danoff, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Co-Director, Hopkins Interstitial
Lung Disease Clinic
J.P. Dunne, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Director, Division of Ocular Immunology
Laura Hummers, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Co-Director, The Johns Hopkins
Schleroderma Center
Guest Faculty
Michael Becker, MD
Professor of Medicine
Section on Rheumatology
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Leigh Callahan, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Orthopaedics and Social Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Megan Clowse, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Ellen Ginzler, MD, MPH
Division Chief, Rheumatology
State University of New York (SUNY)
Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York
Sergio Jimenez, MD
Co-Director
Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine
Director, Division of Connective Tissue Diseases
Director, The Scleroderma Center
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nancy Lane, MD
Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology
Director, UC Davis Center for Healthy Aging
University of California at Davis
Sacramento, California
Walter Maksymowych, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Peter Merkel, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Rheumatology
Director, Vasculitis Center
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Larry Moreland, MD
Margaret Jane Miller Endowed Professor of Arthritis Research
Chief, Division of Rheumatology and
Clinical Immunology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
John Reveille, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
George H. Bruce, Jr. Professor in
Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Diseases
Director of the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics
University of Texas Health Center
Houston, Texas
Kenneth Saag, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
Patience White, MD
Chief Public Health Officer
Arthritis Foundation
Washington, DC
