Meet our Memory Center Physicians and Nurses

 

Leadership

 

Constantine George Lyketsos, M.D.

Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor
Director, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bayview
Director, Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Expertise, Disease and Conditions: 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

 

Esther Seunghee Oh, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Joint Appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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

 

Paul Barton Rosenberg, M.D.

Co-Director, Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Expertise, Disease and Conditions: 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

Halima Amjad, 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

 

Muhammad Haroon Burhanullah, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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

Research Interests:

 

Milap Anil Nowrangi, M.D., M.S.

Program Director, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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.

 

Matthew Eugene Peters, M.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor of Neurology

Expertise, Disease and Conditions: Adult Psychiatry, Cognitive Decline in Older Adults, Encephalopathy, Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Traumatic Brain Injury

Research Interests:

 

Sevil Yasar, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Neurology

Expertise, Disease and Conditions: Dementia, Geriatric Medicine, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

Research Interests: Dementia, Cognitive Decline, Vascular Risk Factors, Antihypertensive medications, Hydrocephalus

 

• 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

Nurses