Interdisciplinary Rheumatology: Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases

Dr. Maria Salgado, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Universidad del Azuay, in Ecuador. She then completed her Internal Medicine Residency Training and Chief Resident Year at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, followed by Rheumatology Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Salgado is certified in musculoskeletal ultrasound through the Ultrasound School of North American Rheumatologists (USSONAR) and the American College of Rheumatology (RhMSUS), skills she incorporates into her daily clinical practice. Her clinical interests include sarcoidosis and spondylarthritis, including psoriatic arthritis. She is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Sarcoidosis Clinic and part of the Center for Pericardial Diseases at Columbia University, which provide comprehensive and integrated care to these patients with systemic inflammatory conditions. Dr. Salgado has a strong interest in medical education and is involved in teaching Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology to medical students, residents, and clinical fellows.

Dr. Michael Cammarata, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from Eastern Virginia Medical School, completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and pursued subspecialty training in Rheumatology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Cammarata is certified in musculoskeletal ultrasound through the Ultrasound School of North American Rheumatologists (USSONAR) and the American College of Rheumatology (RhMSUS), and he practices diagnostic ultrasound in the Johns Hopkins Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Injection Clinic. His clinical interests also include vasculitis, and he sees patients at the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center. As a hospitalist, he co-directs the Division of Hospital Medicine's efforts to care for patients with rheumatic disease undergoing CAR-T cell therapy. Before medical school, he taught elementary school English in Madrid, Spain. He is passionate about medical education, particularly clinical reasoning, feedback, and mentorship. He facilitates large-group, case-based rheumatology sessions for preclinical medical students in the Organ Systems Foundations of Clinical Medicine course at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. J. Martin Rodriguez, MD, is the C. Glenn Cobbs, MD. Chair in Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in Peru. He then completed his Internal Medicine Residency Training and Chief Resident Year at UAB, followed by an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the combined Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital training program. He is the Director of the Tinsley Harrison General Medicine Service and the Co-Director of the UAB Undiagnosed Diseases Program. His clinical interests include internal medicine and general infectious diseases.