Black, Betty E., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Main Office Address

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street
Meyer Building, Rm. 2-279    
Baltimore, MD 21287-7279

Phone: 410-955-2003
Fax: 410-502-3251

E-mail: bblack@jhmi.edu

Education

Internship

Professional
Interests

Dr. Black's professional interests focus on the mental health of older adults and their use of health and mental health care services.  In this area, her research has examined need and unmet need for mental health care, health services utilization, quality of life and end-of-life care in dementia. Dr. Black's interests also include research ethics, particularly related to recruitment and enrollment of people with cognitive impairments and methods for securing informed consent from these individuals and/or their surrogates.

Selected Publications  

Black BS, Finucane T, Baker A, Loreck D, Blass D, Fogarty L, Phillips H, Hovanec L, Steele C, Rabins PV. Health problems and correlates of pain in nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 2006, 20(4):283-290.

Black BS, Kasper J, Brandt J, Shore A, German P, Burton L, Gallo J, Lyketsos K, Rabins PV:  Identifying dementia in high-risk community samples: The Memory and Medical Care Study.  Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 17(1):9-18, 2003. 

Black BS, Rabins PV, German PS:  Predictors of nursing home placement among elderly public housing residents.  The Gerontologist, 39(5):559-568, 1999. 

Black BS, Rabins PV, McGuire MH:  Alcohol use disorder is a risk factor for mortality among older public housing residents.  International Psychogeriatrics, 10(3):309-327, 1998. 

Black BS, Rabins PV, German P, Roca R, McGuire M, Brant L:  Use of formal and informal sources of mental health care among older African American public housing residents.    Psychological Medicine, 28(3):519-530, 1998. 

Black BS, Rabins PV, German P, McGuire M, Roca R:  Need and unmet need for mental health care among elderly public housing residents.  The Gerontologist, 37(6): 717-728, 1997.