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Cynthia Boyd, MD, MPH

Academic Appointment(s):

  • Assistant Professor

Division Title(s):

  • Full-time faculty member
  • Faculty member, Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health
  • Faculty member, Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care

Research Interests:

  • Improvement of care for patients with multiple chronic diseases 
  • Prevention and progression of disability among older adults
  • Decision-making for older adults with multimorbidity

Clinical Interests:

  • Primary care of older adults with chronic illness
  • Clinical care of comorbid chronically ill and frail older adults
  • General Geriatrics

Selected publications:

  • Boyd CM, Darer JD, Boult C, Fried LP, Boult L, Wu AW: Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for  older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performance. JAMA. 2005 Aug 10;294(6):716-24.
  • Boyd CM, Weiss CO, Halter J, Han KC, Ershler WB, Fried LP: Framework for Evaluating Disease Severity Measures in Older Adults with Comorbidity. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2007 Mar;62(3):286-95.
  • Boyd CM, Boult C, Shadmi E, Leff B, Brager R, Wolff JL, Wegener S: Guided Care for Multi-Morbid Older Adults. The Gerontologist 2007 Oct;47(5):697-704.
  • Boyd CM, Landefeld S, Counsell S, Palmer RM, Fortinsky RH, Kresevic D, Burant C, Covinsky K. Recovery in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Adults Following Hospitalization for Acute Medical Illness . Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  2008 Dec;56(12):2171-9
  • Boyd CM, Ricks M, Fried LP, Xue Q, Xia J, and Bandeen-Roche K. Functional Decline and Recovery of Activities of Daily Living among Hospitalized, Disabled Older Women: The Women’s Health and Aging Study I. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  In Press

Education/Training:

  • MD - Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina 
  • Internship/Residency - Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Fellowship - Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland 
  • MPH - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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