Meet our Memory Center Physicians and Nurses
Leadership
Durso, Samuel Christopher, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Mason F. Lord Professor of Medicine; Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Director, Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center
Mason F. Lord Professor of Medicine; Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Director, Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Clinical Care of Older Adults, Cognitive Decline in Older Adults, General Internal Medicine, Geriatric Consultation and Preventative Health, Geriatric Medicine, Health Services Research, Medical Education and Program Administration, Primary Care of Older Adults
Research Interests:
Education and health services research
Lyketsos, Constantine George, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor
Director, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bayview
Director, Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center
Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor
Director, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bayview
Director, Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Adult Psychiatry, Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Dementia, Depression, Epidemiology, Geriatric Psychiatry, Memory Disorders, Mood Disorders, Neuropsychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury
Research Interests:
Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Late life depression, Epidemiology, Biomarkers, Brain imaging
Oh, Esther Seunghee, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Joint Appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Joint Appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Clinical Care of Older Adults, Cognitive Decline in Older Adults, Geriatric Medicine, Geriatric Psychiatry, Mood Disorders, Perioperative Care of Older Adults
Research Interests:
Development of biomarkers for different stages of dementia, as markers of early detection as well as for markers of treatment response
Rosenberg, Paul Barton, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director, Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry
Associate Director, Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Adult Psychiatry, Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Dementia, Geriatric Psychiatry, Memory Disorders, Neuropsychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
Depression and other neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimers disease, Preclinical biomarkers of Alzheimers disease, including PET and peripheral blood studies of inflammation
- Singh, Amandeep, MHA-MBA
Ambulatory Services Manager, Memory Center and Alpha Commons Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic
Physicians
Amjad, Halima, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Dementia, Geriatric Medicine, Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Dementia, dementia care, health services
Burhanullah, Muhammad Haroon, M.D.
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Adult Psychiatry, Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Cognitive Decline in Older Adults, Dementia, Geriatric Psychiatry, Memory Disorders, Mood Disorders, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Moghekar, Abhay Rajeshwar, M.B.B.S.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Research Director, Cerebral Fluid Center, Department of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Research Director, Cerebral Fluid Center, Department of Neurology
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Dementia, Intracranial Hypertension, Neurology, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Pseudotumor Cerebri, Venous Sinus Stenosis
Research Interests:
Disorders of Cerebrospinal Fluid
Nowrangi, Milap Anil, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Memory and Care Program at Grand Oaks Sibley Memorial Hospital
Program Director, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship
Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Memory and Care Program at Grand Oaks Sibley Memorial Hospital
Program Director, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Adult Psychiatry, Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Dementia, Geriatric Psychiatry, Memory Disorders, Neuropsychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
Structural and functional network connectivity of complex decision-making in neurodegenerative disease.
Onyike, Chiadikaobi Uchendu, M.B.B.S., M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Frontotemporal Dementia Program
Co-Director, Frontotemporal Dementia and Young-Onset Dementias Clinic
Director, Frontotemporal Dementia Program
Co-Director, Frontotemporal Dementia and Young-Onset Dementias Clinic
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Adult Psychiatry, Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Behavioral Disorders in Dementia, Behavioral Medicine, Cognitive Disorders, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Dementia, Disorders of Executive Function, Disorders of Social Cognition, Frontotemporal Dementias, Geriatric Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Primary Aphasias, Prion Diseases, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Young-Onset Dementias
Research Interests:
Epidemiology and nosology of the frontotemporal dementias, primary aphasias and related disorders, Treatment trials in the frontotemporal dementias, Cognition and behavior in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Clinicopathologic correlation in the frontotemporal dementias, Social cognition, life participation and burden of care in the frontotemporal dementias
Peters, Matthew Eugene, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Adult Psychiatry, Cognitive Decline in Older Adults, Encephalopathy, General Internal Medicine, Geriatric Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Primary Care, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Traumatic Brain Injury
Sacktor, Ned Charlton, M.D.
Professor of Neurology
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Behavioral Disorders in Dementia, Cognitive Decline in Older Adults, Dementia, Neurology
Research Interests:
HIV associated neurocognitive disorders
Yasar, Sevil, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Neurology
Associate Professor of Neurology
Expertise, Disease and Conditions:
Dementia, Geriatric Medicine, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Research Interests:
Dementia, Cognitive decline, Hydrocephalus, Pharmacoepidemiology
- Cotter, Valerie T., DRNP, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP
Assistant Professor Of Nursing, JHU School of Nursing
Expertise, Disease and Conditions: Early stage dementia, patient and carer quality of life, palliative care - Kapogiannis, Dimitrios, M.D.
Expertise, Disease and Conditions: Mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, Frontotemporal dementia - Thambisetty, Madhav, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology
Staff Clinician, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
Expertise, Disease and Conditions: Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, early detection of dementias