About us

Dr. Ana-Maria Orbai is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include rheumatology and psoriatic arthritis.

Dr. Orbai earned her M.D. from the Iuliu Hatieganu School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, in Romania. She completed internship and residency training in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University-Sinai Hospital program. Subsequently, Dr. Orbai completed her post-doctoral fellowship training in rheumatology at Johns Hopkins. During her fellowship she earned her Master in Health Sciences degree in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Orbai directs the Psoriatic Arthritis Program in the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center.  Her clinical focus is psoriatic arthritis and spodyloarthritis.

Dr. Orbai's research aims to understand psoriatic disease subtypes and improve treatment strategies for people with psoriatic arthritis. Dr. Orbai was awarded a Rheumatology Research Foundation Scientist Development award in 2014 and a Jerome L Greene Foundation Scholar award in 2018.