Mayer Lab

Adam Mayer, M.D.

Assistant Member, Center for Discovery and Innovation
Divisions of Adult and Pediatric Rheumatology, Hackensack University Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Dr. Mayer is an Assistant Member of the Center for Discovery and Innovation at Hackensack Meridian Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Dr. Mayer completed his fellowship training in adult and pediatric rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2025 and will be completing his Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology in late 2025. Dr. Mayer is a clinical epidemiologist whose research centers on the earlier detection and optimal treatment of axial spondyloarthritis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Dr. Mayer has several first-author publications in the field of spondyloarthritis and has been invited for multiple talks and oral abstracts at international scientific conferences. Dr. Mayer is the recipient of the competitive 2025 Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF) Scientist Development Award, the 2023 Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network (SPARTAN) Mentored Fellowship Award, and a National Institutes of Health clinical research training grant (T32) during his fellowship. His current RRF-funded work focuses on the impact of musculoskeletal symptoms on lived experiences of patients with IBD and the safety of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in treating these symptoms in patients with IBD-spondyloarthritis. Dr. Mayer is co-chair of the juvenile spondyloarthritis workgroup of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), member of the SPARTAN research committee, member of the literature review team for the updated SPARTAN/American College of Rheumatology axial spondyloarthritis national guidelines, and site investigator for the multicenter Network for Research and Development in Spondyloarthritis (NERDS).

Selected Publications

Mayer AS, Craig E, Parian A. Practical Considerations for the Treatment of Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis and Comorbid Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2025 Aug;51(3):525-536. PMID: 40681286.

Mayer AS, Xiao R, Grossman A, Bewtra M, George M, Weiss PF. Temporal Trends in and Associations with NSAID Prescription in Adult and Pediatric Patients with IBD, Arthritis Care Res (Accepted July 2025).

Mayer A, Brandon TG, Aggarwal A, Burgos-Vargas R, Colbert RA, Horneff G et al. Impact of Characteristic Inflammatory and Structural Imaging Lesions on Expert Classification of Axial Juvenile Spondyloarthritis, J Rheumatol. 2025 Feb 1;52(2):165-172. PMID: 39814440