Chiadi Ndumele, MD

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.

Dr. Joseph Cofrancesco Jr, is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include (adult) internal medicine and HIV/AIDS, and PrEP and PEP. Dr. Cofrancesco serves as the Director at the Institute for Excellence in Education at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Cofrancesco received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College, Columbia University, NY. He earned his MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, with honors (AOA), NY and earned his Masters of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health with honors in Baltimore. He completed his residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center in New York and completed his Chief Residency/Ambulatory Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He performed his fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine. Currently, Dr. Cofrancesco is an attending Physicians at Johns Hopkins Medicine and is faculty at the Thayer Firm. This provider is registered with the Florida Department of Health to perform telehealth services for patients in Florida.

Dr. Arun Venkatesan serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins Encephalitis Center, where he directs clinical activities and research. At the center he has developed a multidisciplinary program devoted to optimizing diagnosis and management of patients with infectious and autoimmune encephalitis and understanding mechanisms of disease in order to develop more effective treatments. He also plays an active role in the Johns Hopkins Multiple Sclerosis and Transverse Myelitis Centers.He received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, followed by a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology and an M.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his residency in neurology and fellowship in neuroinfectious and neuroinflammatory diseases at Johns Hopkins, after which he was appointed to the faculty in the department of neurology in 2007. His laboratory research focuses on defining causes and mechanisms of central nervous system injury in the setting of infection and neuroinflammation, with a goal towards developing protective and regenerative strategies. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund.