Greenspring Station Clinical Providers and Staff
John Aucott, MD
The Barbara Townsend Cromwell Professor in Lyme Disease and Tick-Borne Illness
Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center
Dr. Aucott is Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Board certified in Infectious Diseases, and a clinical researcher who sees patients for Lyme disease and complications of Lyme disease.
Cheryl Novak, MSN, CRNP
Certified Registered Family Nurse Practitioner
Cheryl sees patients at the Center for clinical consultations in collaboration with Dr. Aucott. She also manages prescription refills and the completion of medical-related forms.
Susan Joseph, BSN, RN
Senior Research Nurse
Susan coordinates clinical consultations and is the clinic nurse.
Cindi Crews
Senior Medical Office Coordinator
Cindi manages initial referrals to the clinic and schedules appointments and follow-ups.
Clinical Research Directors
John Aucott, MD
The Barbara Townsend Cromwell Professor in Lyme Disease and Tick-borne Illness
Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Aucott is investigating the persistent illness associated with Lyme disease that occurs in a subset of patients following initial antibiotic treatment. He is the principal investigator of the SLICE Studies. His efforts are focused on discovering better diagnostic and prognostic tests for Lyme disease and the development of new treatment strategies for patients with chronic symptoms.
Alison Rebman, MPH
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Director for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center
Alison leads a variety of research initiatives at the Center by providing public health research design, biostatistics, data management, and study coordination. She has co-authored numerous manuscripts, with particular research interests in the qualitative illness experience of Lyme disease and in sex and gender-based differences in health.
Clinical Research Team
John Miller, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
Lyme Arthritis Program
Dr. Miller is investigating the musculoskeletal and autoimmune complications that develop in a subset of patients with Lyme disease. He has a particular interest in the use of ultrasound assessment for detection of subtle inflammatory changes.
Brit Adler, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
Dysautonomia Program
Dr. Adler is a translational physician-scientist with an interest in postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and dysautonomia that can occur in COVID and Lyme disease patients. She evaluates patients in the Johns Hopkins Autonomic Testing Lab and performs the tilt table test and other evaluations.
Pegah Touradji, PhD
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Lyme Disease Rehabilitation Neuropsychology Program
Dr. Touradji is a rehabilitation neuropsychologist specializing in cognitive evaluation and behavioral management of Lyme disease associated symptoms. Her research focuses on neuropsychological outcomes of Lyme disease.
Verna Scheeler, BSHA, MA
Clinical Research Program Manager
Verna keeps our clinical and epidemiological studies up to date with any research related regulatory and safety regulations. She manages all the collaboration agreements with our research partners in our expanding research networks. She also oversees our study enrollment sites, including managing satellite sites from Pennsylvania to southern Maryland.
Ting Yang, PhD
Senior Biostatistician
Dr. Yang provides expertise in study design and statistical evaluation of longitudinal observational studies, quasi-experiments, and clinical trials. She has broad research experience including quality control charts design, semi-supervised learning, clinical trial Bayesian meta-analysis, and evaluation of large-scale patient safety interventions.
Erica Mihm Kozero, BS, CCRP
Senior Research Program Coordinator
Erica specializes in managing the collection of research participant data. She schedules and meets with participants directly, gathers data, and enters the data into our electronic system to be analyzed. She also assists with the satellite sites regarding data entry questions and research materials.
Isabella Brothers, BS
Research Program Coordinator
Isabella collects, manages, and analyzes research participant data.
Abigail Mathews, BS
Research Program Coordinator
Abigail coordinates participant research and data collection.
Bayview Medical Center Research
John Aucott, MD
Laboratory Director
Mark Soloski, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Senior Advisor, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center
Dr. Soloski is interested in the role that infection plays in setting the stage for chronic immune mediated inflammatory diseases. His work includes investigating the human host immune response to infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. His efforts employ genomic, proteomic, and complex immune phenotyping approaches to identify cellular and/or molecular immune biomarkers that associate with effectiveness of bacterial clearance and/or disease pathophysiology.
In addition to research, Dr Soloski is excited about the teaching of students, at all levels, about how the immune system evolved, how it protects us from infection, and how it can contribute to disease.
Daniela Villegas de Flores, MEd
Biorepository Manager
Won Seok Song, BS
Research Specialist
