Assistant Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dr. Halima Amjad is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine, internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, and a clinical and research fellowship in geriatrics at Johns Hopkins. Her career as a geriatrician and health services researcher centers around the care of people living with dementia. Her research focuses on medical care challenges in dementia, including underdiagnosis of dementia, prevention of hospitalization, and improving primary care support for individuals and families. She serves as a dementia specialist at the Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center and as clinical director of the MIND at Home Dementia Care Coordination program. She also serves as Chair of the Maryland Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Council and is on the Board of Directors for the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.
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Into the Wild: Embedding a Complex, Home-Based Dementia Care Program Into Diverse Practice Settings
Friday, November 15, 2024
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Friday, November 15, 2024
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST