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Thomas Grader-Beck, MD, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Thomas Grader-Beck, MD, PhD, is an associate clinical professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also a member of the Johns Hopkins Jerome L. Greene Sjögren’s Disease Center.
Dr Grader-Beck graduated from the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany, completed his postgraduate internship and residency training at the University of Massachusetts, and completed his fellowship in rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He joined the Jerome L. Greene Sjögren’s Disease Center in 2010.
Dr Grader-Beck’s clinical and research work focuses on Sjögren’s disease (SjD), with particular emphasis on advancing its diagnosis, characterization, and treatment through clinical research and informatics. His work integrates electronic health record data, patient registries, and clinical trials to advance precision medicine and improve outcomes for patients with SjD.
He is actively involved in national efforts to improve rheumatology data standards and electronic health record tools through the American College of Rheumatology. Dr Grader-Beck has served as an investigator in multiple national and international clinical trials of emerging therapies for SjD and leads initiatives to develop large-scale real-world data resources to support patient care and clinical research.
