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Klodian Dhana, MD, PhD

Klodian Dhana, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, RUSH Medical College
Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
MD, Faculty of Medicine, Tirana University, Tirana, Albania

 

Contact Info:

1700 West Van Buren
Suite 245
Chicago, IL  60612
klodian_dhana@rush.edu
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Biography

Klodian Dhana, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center. Dhana received his PhD from Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He joined Rush University in July 2018.

Dhana’s research focuses on diet, lifestyle factors, genetic risk, prediction models, life expectancy estimates, cognition, Alzheimer’s disease, and other related dementias.

Publications

Recent Selected Publications

Dhana K, Franco OH, Ritz EM, et al (2022) Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy with and without Alzheimer’s dementia: population-based cohort study. BMJ. 2022 Apr 13;377:e068390. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021- 068390. (PMID: 35418416)

Dhana K, James BD, Agarwal P, et al (2021) MIND diet, common brain pathologies, and cognition in community-dwelling older adults. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. doi: 10.3233/JAD-210107 (PMID: 34334393)

Dhana K, Barnes LL, Liu X, et al (2021) Genetic risk, adherence to a healthy lifestyle, and cognitive decline in African Americans and European Americans. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. doi: 10.1002/alz.12435 (PMID: 34310036)

Agarwal P, Dhana K, Barnes LL, et al (2021) Unhealthy foods may attenuate the beneficial relation of a Mediterranean diet to cognitive decline. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. 17(7):1157-1165 (PMID: 33410584)

Dhana K, Evans DA, Rajan KB, et al (2020) Healthy lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer dementia: Findings from 2 longitudinal studies. Neurology. 95:e374–83 doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009816 (PMID: 32554763)

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