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Halima Amjad

Assistant Professor
Medicine - Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
United States of America

Doctor Medical Sciences
Biography

Dr. Halima Amjad is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include geriatric medicine and geriatric psychiatry. Dr. Amjad earned her M.D. and Master’s of Public Health from Drexel University. She completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and performed a fellowship in geriatric medicine and gerontology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 2016. She is certified in internal medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine. Her research focuses on informing and improving the care of older adults with dementia with research into safety, undiagnosed dementia, health services and new models of care.

Research Intrest

Dementia; dementia care; health services

List of Publications
Amjad H, Oh E. Commentary on Booker et al., Clarifying Dementia Risk Factors: Treading in Murky Waters. Int Psychogeriatr. 2016; 28(7):1057-1058.
Amjad H, Austin AM, Carmichael D, Chang CH, Bynum, JPW. Continuity of Care and Healthcare Utilization in Older Adults with Dementia in Fee-for-Service Medicare. JAMA Intern Med. 2016; 176(9): 1371–1378.
Amjad H, Roth DL, Samus QM, Yasar S, Wolff JL. Potentially unsafe activities and living conditions in older adults with dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2016; 64(6):1223-1232.
Samus QM, Amjad H, Johnston D, Black BS, Bartels S, Lyketsos CG. A multipronged, adaptive approach for the recruitment of diverse community residing-elders with memory impairment: the MIND at Home experience. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2015; 23(7):698-708.
Amjad H, Towle V, Fried T. Association of experience with illness and end-of-life care with advance care planning in older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2014; 62(7):1304–1309.

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