Overview
Dr. Argye Hillis is a professor of Neurology, with joint faculty appointments in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in Cognitive Science. She is also the Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute Professor of Acute Stroke Diagnoses and Management. Prior to medical training and neurology residency, Dr. Hillis worked as a speech-language pathologist, and conducted clinical research focusing on understanding and treating aphasia and hemispatial neglect. She has brought these areas of experience to impact on her clinical research in neurology, which involves cognitive and neuroimaging studies of aphasia and hemispatial neglect due to acute stroke and focal dementias. She has published extensively on these topics in journals and textbooks. Dr. Hillis is Associate Editor of Stroke and has served as Associate editor of Brain, Annals of Neurology, Aphasiology, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Neurocase, Cognitive Neuropsychology, and Language and Cognitive Processes and served as co-Editor and Chief of Behavioral Neurology. Dr. Hillis serves as the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology and the Director of the Cerebrovascular Division of Neurology at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Hillis is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. Her top areas of expertise are Primary Progressive Aphasia, Stroke, Frontotemporal Dementia, Thrombectomy, and Gastrostomy.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 351 peer reviewed articles and participating in 7 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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601 North Caroline Street, Floor 5, Floor 5, Baltimore, MD 21287
10753 Falls Road, Pavilion II STE 115, Lutherville, MD 21093
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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The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. Becker is a neurologist who earned his Medical Degree from Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Research Assistant in Neuroscience investigating the role of embryonic stem cells in spinal cord injury repair at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine in 2004 and his residency in Neurology in 2007. From there, he completed a year-long fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Becker is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Paraplegia, Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (RMS), and Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy.
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Dr. Scholz is a neurologist and geneticist specializing in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease, atypical parkinsonism and dementia syndromes. She received her medical degree from the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria. Following graduation, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health under the supervision of Drs. Andrew Singleton and John Hardy. She obtained a Ph.D. in neurogenomics from the University College London, UK in 2010. She then moved to Baltimore to complete her neurology residency training at Johns Hopkins. In 2015 Dr. Scholz received the McFarland Transition to Independence Award for Neurologist-Scientists. She is Lasker Clinical Research Scholar at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke focusing on genetic causes of neurodegenerative syndromes, and an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins' department of neurology. Dr. Scholz is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. Her top areas of expertise are Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), Multiple System Atrophy, Movement Disorders, and Parkinson's Disease.
Neurological Medicine, P.A.
Maciej Poltorak is a Neurologist in Greenbelt, Maryland. Dr. Poltorak is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Infantile Axonal Neuropathy, Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy Type 2, Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis, and Partial Familial Epilepsy. Dr. Poltorak is currently accepting new patients.
Areas of Expertise
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- Elite
- Frontotemporal DementiaDr. Hillis isElite. Learn about Frontotemporal Dementia.
- Primary Progressive AphasiaDr. Hillis isElite. Learn about Primary Progressive Aphasia.
- StrokeDr. Hillis isElite. Learn about Stroke.
- Distinguished
- ApraxiaDr. Hillis isDistinguished. Learn about Apraxia.
- DementiaDr. Hillis isDistinguished. Learn about Dementia.
- Developmental Dysphasia FamilialDr. Hillis isDistinguished. Learn about Developmental Dysphasia Familial.
- DysgraphiaDr. Hillis isDistinguished. Learn about Dysgraphia.
- ThrombectomyDr. Hillis isDistinguished. Learn about Thrombectomy.
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- Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy
- Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)Dr. Hillis isAdvanced. Learn about Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA).
- Wallerian DegenerationDr. Hillis isAdvanced. Learn about Wallerian Degeneration.
- Experienced
- AgnosiaDr. Hillis isExperienced. Learn about Agnosia.
- Alien Hand SyndromeDr. Hillis isExperienced. Learn about Alien Hand Syndrome.
- Alternating Hemiplegia of ChildhoodDr. Hillis isExperienced. Learn about Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood.
- Alzheimer's DiseaseDr. Hillis isExperienced. Learn about Alzheimer's Disease.
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease)
- ApoplexyDr. Hillis isExperienced. Learn about Apoplexy.