David Hellmann, M.D.

  • Mary Betty Stevens Professor of Medicine Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
  • Executive Vice Chairman Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Research Interests:

  • Evaluation of patients with systemic vasculitis
  • Study of systemic vasculitides

Clinical Interests:

  • CNS vasculitis
  • Wegener’s granulomatosis
  • Giant cell arteritis
  • Polyarteritis

Selected Publications:

  • Levine SM, Hellman DB: Giant cell arteritis. Curr Opin Rheumatol. (In Press 2002).
  • Regan MJ, Wood BJ, Hsieh YH, Theodore ML, Quinn TC, Hellman DB, Green WR, Gaydos CA. Stone JH: Chlamydia pneumoniae and Temporal Arteritis: Failure to detect the organism by PCR in 180 cases and controls. Arthritis Rheum (In Press).
  • Stone J, Hellmann DB (eds). Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America: Vasculitis. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 2001.
  • Scatarige JC, Urban, BA, Hellmann DB, Fishman EK: Three–dimensional volume–rendering CT angiography in vasculitis: spectrum of disease and clinical utility. J Comput Asst Tomogr 25:598–603, 2001.
  • Stone JH, Uhlfelder ML, Hellmann DB, Crook S, Bedocs N, Hoffman GS: Etanercept combined with conventional treatment in Wegener’s granulomatosis: a six-month open–label trial to evaluate safety. Arthritis Rheum 44:1149–1154, 2001.

Education:

  • M.D.: The Johns Hopkins University
  • Internship and Residency: The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Post–doctoral Fellowship: University of California San Francisco, Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology

Societies:

  • American College of Rheumatology
  • Arthritis Foundation, Maryland Chapter
  • American College of Physicians
  • International Network for the Study of the Systemic Vasculitides
  • Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine
  • American Clinical and Climatological Association

Editorial Boards:

  • Medicine
  • Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Rheumatology, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Western Journal of Medicine, Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of American Medical Association, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
  • Rheumatology Committee, MKSAP 11
  • Yearbook of Rheumatology
  • Grand Rounds from Johns Hopkins, Journal of American Medical Association
  • Johns Hopkins Insider

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