About Us
Innovative Care is a concierge medical practice offering membership-based Internal Medicine and Rheumatology care in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Our practice model allows for longer appointments when you need them, coordination of care, and direct communication with your physician. Innovative Care does not participate with any insurance companies.
Marisa Mizus, MD, MS
With 15 years of experience practicing Medicine, Dr. Marisa Mizus, the owner and solo physician at Innovative Care, is dual board certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. After completing medical school at NYU School of Medicine, she completed a Primary Care Residency followed by a Vascular Medicine Research Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed Rheumatology Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Mizus was also an Internal Medicine Hospitalist at Lankenau Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Throughout her career, she participated in research, earning a Masters of Science in Translational Research from the University of Pennsylvania. She has a particular interest in the cardiovascular manifestations and complications of autoimmune diseases and has published and presented her research at various meetings. She continues to collaborate with researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland.
Dr. Mizus is the president of the Maryland Society for Rheumatic Diseases and the Maryland chapter leader of the Association of Women in Rheumatology.
Education & Training
Undergraduate: Washington University in St. Louis, 2004
Medical School: New York University School of Medicine, 2011
Masters of Science in Translational Research: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2016
Internship and Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2014
Vascular Medicine Research Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2016
Rheumatology Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital, 2020
Work experience
Lankenau Hospital, Hospitalist, 2016-2017
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hospitalist, 2017-2018, 2020-2021
Sinai Hospital, Rheumatologist, 2021-2024
Falls Medical Specialists, Rheumatologist, 2024-2026
Leadership positions
Maryland Society for the Rheumatic Diseases, President, 2025-present
Association of Women in Rheumatology, Maryland chapter leader, 2025-present
Selected Publications
Manuscripts
CN, M., Mizus, M., JW, W., Goldberg, L., Jessup, M., & CA, U. (2016). Brain-type natriuretic peptide and amino-terminal pro–brain-type natriuretic peptide discharge thresholds for acute decompensated heart failure: A systematic review. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2017. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/M16-1468
Mizus M, Li J, Goldman D, Petri MA. Autoantibody clustering of lupus-associated pulmonary hypertension. Lupus Sci Med. 2019;6:e000356.
Book chapters
Patel, V., Slotkin, R., Mizus, M., Cappelli, L., “Malignant and paraneoplastic mimics of rheumatology diseases,” in Interdisciplinary Rheumatology: Rheumatology and Hematology-Oncology, edited by Rebecca Manno and Shruti Chaturvedi, series editors Jason Liebowitz and Philip Seo (Routledge, UK, In Press).
Reviews
Mizus M. When Clopidogrel Fails. Clinical Correlations. March 10, 2010 < http://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/?p=2365>.
M C Mizus, E Tiniakou. Lipid-lowering Therapies in Myositis. Curr Rheumatol Rep. 2020 Aug 26;22(10):70. doi: 10.1007/s11926-020-00942-3.