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Fredrick Wigley
Consultant, Rheumatologist
Leading expert in scleroderma and Raynaud's phenomenon.
Dr. Wigley is the Martha McCrory Professor of Medicine, Associate Director, Division of Rheumatology, and the Director of the Scleroderma Center at the Johns Hopkins University. He established The Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center in 1990 to provide excellent patient care to patients with scleroderma, Raynaud’s phenomenon and related disorders; to perform clinical and basic science research and to provide educational opportunities. Currently, the Center is one of the largest scleroderma specialty centers in the world. The Center evaluates and treats 5-7 new and 40-60 return scleroderma patients a week. It has over 3,000 patients in a comprehensive database. Dr. Wigley is a co-investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a principal investigator on several private foundations. He has published more than 200 articles, including more than 150 peer-reviewed articles. He was recently a co-editor on the book entitled, Scleroderma: From Pathogenesis to Comprehensive Management.