Fellows in Training in JHU Rheumatology

Julius Birnbaum, M.D.

 I have a particular interest in elaborating the mechanisms driving the neurological expressions of rheumatic disease, having completed a Neurology Residency prior to additional training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology   I feel that collaborating with colleagues in both Rheumatology and Neuroimmunology can potentially yield swift, incisive, and catalytic approaches to understanding the role of inflammation in neurological manifestations of rheumatic disease.  The field of MS has been revolutionized by stratification of subpopulations on the basis of whether disease presentation  is marked predominantly by inflammation (i.e. relapsing/remitting MS), or whether there is an insidiously although relentless progession of neurological deficits without similar "flares".    In comparison to MS, the study of neurological manifestations often depends on vague nosological descriptions.  Utilization of paraclinical data that can easily be stratified (i.e. Gad enhancing lesions on MRI, cytokine analysis and proteomics on CSF) according to surrogate definitions of inflammation offers potential mechanistic insight.   At Hopkins, there is an unparalleled opportunity to weave phenomenology and more precise molecular biomarkers of inflammation, so that our understanding of the  neurological disorders of rheumatic disease can rise to similar sophistication that has been seen in MS and paraneoplastic disorders.

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Amit Golding, M.D.

Prior training: MD, PhD from Johns Hopkins Medical School.  Residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
Research interests: PhD work with Mark Schlissel and Stephen Desiderio interrogating a role for chromatin structure in regulating V(D)J rearrangement, the process responsible for generating a diverse population of antigen receptors in T and B cells.

My current work with Dr. Felipe Andrade in the Johns Hopkins Division of Rheumatology is focused on the role of regulatory T cells in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity.  We are interested in identifying a factor or factors responsible for suppressing regulatory T cell function in various rheumatic diseases.

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Dimitrios Pappas, M.D.

Dr. Dimitrios Pappas completed his medical education at Aristotle University
in Greece and then completed residency training [2003-2006] at Albany
Medical Center.

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Ami Shah, M.D.

Dr. Ami Shah graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
in May, 2003 after which she pursued residency training in Internal Medicine
at Stanford University [2003-2006].

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Peter Wung, M.D.

Dr. Peter Wung is a graduate of the Ohio State University School of
Medicine, after which he completed his residency training in Internal
Medicine at the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

  
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