Cynthia Holcroft Argani, MD

Dr. Maunank Shah is Professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include infectious disease. Dr. Shah received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Virginia. He earned his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Emory University School of Medicine and performed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Shah earned his Ph.D. in clinical investigation and public health, with expertise in decision-analysis, epidemiology, and biostatistics, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests focus on innovation in HIV and TB care. He is the inventor of video-DOT software (Scene.health) now used for patient-centered adherence support in over 700 US health departments. He is also co-inventor of HIVASSIST (www.hivassist.com), an educational and decision-support application for individualized ARV selection for persons with HIV. He has also built decision support tools for latent TB infection, and other infectious diseases. He has led WHO evidence review for novel TB diagnostics including urinary LAM antigen tests, and developed JHEEM (Johns Hopkins Epidemiologic-Economic Model), chaired the NTCA guideline development for community based TB isolation recommendations. Dr. Shah is medical director for the Baltimore City Tuberculosis Program, and past-President of the National Society of TB Clinicians. He serves on the Maryland Tuberculosis Guidelines committee and is Deputy Editor for CID, the flagship clinical journal of the Infectious Disease Society of America. An author of more than 70 peer-reviewed studies, he is a member of the International Union for TB and Lung Disease, the International AIDS Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Shah leads online infectious diseases educational activities in partnership with the JH Office of Online Education, is Director of Johns Hopkins IDEAL (Center for Infectious Diseases Education, Advancement and Learning), and serves as co-director for the microbiology and infectious disease curriculum for students at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

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.