Vidya Kamath, PhD

Description

Dr. Kamath is a neuropsychologist, clinical training director, research director and a core faculty member in the Division of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Duke University. She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Central Florida, a neuropsychology pre-doctoral internship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and a clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kamath's clinical expertise is in the evaluation of older adults with suspected neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative conditions. She currently serves as the primary neuropsychologist for the Johns Hopkins Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Center and the Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and Young-Onset Dementias Clinic.  Dr. Kamath's research program represents a multi-modal investigation of the clinical, cognitive and neurobiological correlates of olfactory dysfunction in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. A former Johns Hopkins KL2 Clinical Research Scholar, she is currently a primary investigator on grants funded by the National Institute of Aging (R01AG064093) and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS108452). She is also the research neuropsychologist for NIH-funded studies examining risk factors for cognitive decline in persons with Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment, schizophrenia, frontotemporal dementia, delirium and Down syndrome. She has received funding from the NIH, APA Division 40 and the Mid-Atlantic Nutrition Obesity Research Center.