Joan Bathon

Bathon
Bathon

Dr. Bathon is a rheumatologist and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is Deputy Director of the Division, Director of the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, and Director and Founder of the Johns Hopkins Arthritis WebSite. Dr. Bathon is also the Editor-in-Chief of the premier rheumatology journal, Arthritis and Rheumatism. Dr. Bathon is a clinical researcher whose research focuses on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA). She is the principal investigator of several federal and foundation grants to study risk factors and predictors of the enhanced risk of RA patients for accelerated cardiovascular disease. She is the co-PI of a NIAMS sponsored Rheumatic Disease Research Center Core (RDRCC), and is a co-investigator of one of the Field Centers for the “Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)”, a NIAMS-sponsored large-scale longitudinal observational study of risk factors for knee osteoarthritis. Dr. Bathon has served as PI, advisor, steering committee member, and/or co-investigator for a variety of clinical intervention trials in RA and OA. She is a co investigator or mentor on a variety of other NIH sponsored studies focused on RA and OA. She has authored over 120 scientific publications and book chapters.

Dr. Bathon is past Associate Editor of Arthritis Research and Therapy and past Advisory Editor of Arthritis and Rheumatism. She is an ad hoc reviewer for many other journals, including JAMA, NEJM, Annals Int Med, J Clin Invest, J Immunol, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. She is a past member of the FDA Arthritis Advisory Committee. She has served previously as a member of the Board of Directors of the American College of Rheumatology, and of the Board of Directors of the Arthritis Foundation, Maryland Chapter. Dr. Bathon is former Director of the Dean’s Office of Women in Science and Medicine, former Co-Chair of the Women’s Leadership Council, and former Chair of the Department of Medicine’s Task Force on Academic Careers of Women in Medicine, all at Hopkins.