Laura C. Cappelli MD, MHS

Dr. Laura C. Cappelli is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Oncology in the Division of Rheumatology, and a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center. She earned her M.D. from Johns Hopkins. She completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Cappelli also obtained an MHS in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her primary research focus is rheumatologic adverse effects of cancer immunotherapy including the clinical characteristics, epidemiology, impact on patients, and biologic mechanisms of these adverse events. Dr. Cappelli co-chairs the Immune Related Toxicity Team at Johns Hopkins. In addition, she studies rheumatoid arthritis, focusing on patients with seronegative disease and on the use of autoantibodies as biomarkers.