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Allan C. Gelber, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Allan C. Gelber, MD
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University
  • Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Program, Johns Hopkins University
  • Joint Appointment, Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests:

  • Incidence and risk factors for osteoarthritis
  • Prevalence of osteoarthritis and Raynaud’s phenomenon in the African American community
  • Home-based exercise intervention for knee osteoarthritis in an inner-city African American community located in Baltimore, MD.
  • Racial differences in survival in scleroderma
  • Enhancing clinical education in rheumatology available to medical students and internal medicine residents
  • Identification of novel autoantibodies in relation to distinct clinical phenotypes in Sjogren’s syndrome
Clinical Interests:
  • General Rheumatology
Selected Publications: Education:
  • Ph.D.: in Clinical Investigation, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • M.P.H.: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management
  • M.D.: The Johns Hopkins University
  • Internship and Residency: Duke University Medical Center
  • Post-doctoral Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Rheumatology
Societies:
  • American College of Rheumatology
  • American College of Physicians
Editorial Board:
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Reviewer for the following journals:
  • American Journal of Medicine
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Annals of Rheumatic Disease
  • Arthritis Care and Research
  • Arthritis & Rheumatism
  • Clinical Therapeutics
  • International Journal of Obesity
  • Journal of American Medical Association
  • Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Journal of Rheumatology
  • Medicine

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