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Meet Our Clinical and Research Team

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 and Clinical Care Program

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.

John Aucott, MD

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.

Caroline Davis, MS

Physician Assistant – Certified

Caroline 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 and Clinical Care Program

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.

John Aucott, MD

Alison Rebman, MPH

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Director for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center and Clinical Care Program

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 Lyme Center 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 at the Center focuses on neuropsychological outcomes of Lyme disease.

Jonathan Zenilman, MD

Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Dr. Jonathan Zenilman is an infectious diseases specialist, epidemiologist and clinical researcher who has been on the JHU faculty since 1989.  He helps design and implement the observational studies and clinical trials at the Lyme Disease Research Center, and is also an active clinician seeing patients.

Glenn J. Treisman, MD, PhD

Eugene Meyer III Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Dr. Treisman is Director of the AIDS Psychiatry Service and The Johns Hopkins Pain Treatment Program. He was the co-founder and co-director of the Amos Center, a program that studies atypical GI disorders and the relationship between food, the nervous system of the GI tract, the microbiome, and disease. Dr. Treisman is co-founder of a new multidisciplinary clinic for dysautonomia within the Lyme Disease Research Center.

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 the Research Center’s 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.

Leah Young, BS

Research Program Coordinator

Leah coordinates participant research and data collection.

Bayview Medical Center Research

Sourabh Samaddar, PhD

Research Director and Laboratory Supervisor

Dr. Samaddar is investigating how metabolism can influence the development of Lyme disease.

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, including 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.

Daniela Villegas de Flores, MEd

Biorepository Manager

Harshini Balaga, MS

Research Specialist

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