Bruce A. Leff
Experienced in Alzheimer's Disease
Experienced in Alzheimer's Disease
5505 Hopkins Bayview Circle, John R. Burton Pavilion Building Level 02, John R. Burton Pavilion Building Level 02, 
Baltimore, MD 

Overview

Dr. Bruce Leff is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in the department of health policy and management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Community and Public Health in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Dr. Leff is an internationally recognized leader and researcher in the development, evaluation and dissemination of novel models of care for older adults, including the Hospital at Home, Guided Care, geriatric service line models and medical house call practices. In addition, his research interests extend to issues related to multi-morbidity, performance measurement and case-mix issues. He has a strong interest in health policy issues, is a past Health and Aging Policy Fellow of the American Political Science Association, and has served on multiple technical expert panels for the National Quality Forum, NCQA, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. An award-winning teacher and mentor, Dr. Leff directed the basic Medicine Clerkship in the School of Medicine until 2021. He is a past-president of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians, past-member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians. He is also past- Chair of the Council of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), as well as the past-Chair of the ABIM Geriatric Medicine Board. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the ABIM Foundation. Dr. Leff received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and his M.D. from New York University in 1987. After residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins, he served as a medical officer in the US Army in Seoul, Korea, before joining the faculty in the Department of Medicine in 1994.

Dr. Leff is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Dementia, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Hypertension, and COVID-19.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 193 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 1 article in the study of Alzheimer's Disease.

Residency
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 1991
Specialties
Geriatrics
Licenses
Internal Medicine in MD
Board Certifications
American Board Of Internal Medicine
Fellowships
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, 1992
Hospital Affiliations
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Languages Spoken
English
Gender
Male

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Locations

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
5505 Hopkins Bayview Circle, John R. Burton Pavilion Building Level 02, John R. Burton Pavilion Building Level 02, Baltimore, MD 21224

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


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