Background
Ambereen K. Mehta, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where she graduated from the Internal Medicine residency and joined as faculty in July, 2020. She completed her fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in 2016, after which she joined as faculty at the University of Virginia. At UVA her practice included inpatient palliative medicine consults, outpatient palliative medicine in an oncology clinic, and she was medical director of an inpatient hospice unit. She was also the Associate Program Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship. In 2018, she joined the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles where she practiced as an inpatient palliative medicine consultant and created an outpatient neuropalliative position in the multidisciplinary ALS clinic.
Her research interests include hospice and palliative medicine education for non-palliative specialists and palliative care for patients with neurological diseases. She has contributed to curriculum development programs and is part of the Science Committee of the International Neuropalliative Care Society. She is chair-elect of the Neuropalliative SIG of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.