Argye E. Hillis
Elite in Frontotemporal Dementia

Dr. Argye E. Hillis

Neurology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
601 North Caroline Street, Floor 5, Floor 5, 
Baltimore, MD 
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Elite in Frontotemporal Dementia
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
601 North Caroline Street, Floor 5, Floor 5, 
Baltimore, MD 
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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 Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Frontotemporal Dementia. 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. In particular, she has co-authored 9 articles and participated in 2 clinical trials in the study of Frontotemporal Dementia.

Residency
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Neurology, 1999
Specialties
Neurology
Licenses
Psychiatry & Neurology in MD
Board Certifications
American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology
Hospital Affiliations
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Languages Spoken
English
Gender
Female

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Locations

Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
601 North Caroline Street, Floor 5, Floor 5, Baltimore, MD 21287
Call: 410-955-9441
Other Locations
Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center - Green Spring Station, Lutherville
10753 Falls Road, Pavilion II STE 115, Lutherville, MD 21093
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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.


7 Clinical Trials

Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
Enrollment Status: Withdrawn
Publish Date: April 24, 2025
Intervention Type: Device
Study Phase: Not Applicable
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Spoken and Written Production in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Spoken and Written Production in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
Enrollment Status: Completed
Publish Date: January 28, 2025
Intervention Type: Device
Study Phase: Not Applicable
Rehabilitation and Prophylaxis of Anomia in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Rehabilitation and Prophylaxis of Anomia in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Enrollment Status: Completed
Publish Date: September 25, 2024
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Phase: Not Applicable
Functional Connectivity and Predictors of Affective Aprosodia Intervention in Subacute Right Hemisphere Stroke
Functional Connectivity and Predictors of Affective Aprosodia Intervention in Subacute Right Hemisphere Stroke
Enrollment Status: Withdrawn
Publish Date: March 20, 2024
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Phase: Not Applicable
Rehabilitating and Decelerating Language Loss in Primary Progressive Aphasia With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Plus Language Therapy
Rehabilitating and Decelerating Language Loss in Primary Progressive Aphasia With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Plus Language Therapy
Enrollment Status: Completed
Publish Date: April 27, 2023
Intervention Type: Device
Study Phase: Not Applicable
Efficacy of Web-Based Social-Cognitive Interventions in Right Hemisphere Stroke and Frontotemporal Dementia
Efficacy of Web-Based Social-Cognitive Interventions in Right Hemisphere Stroke and Frontotemporal Dementia
Enrollment Status: Completed
Publish Date: May 31, 2019
Intervention Type: Other
Study Phase: Not Applicable
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Acute and Chronic Post-stroke Aphasia
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Acute and Chronic Post-stroke Aphasia
Enrollment Status: Withdrawn
Publish Date: November 26, 2018
Intervention Type: Device
Study Phase: Not Applicable
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351 Total Publications

Written picture descriptions distinguish variants of primary progressive aphasia.
Written picture descriptions distinguish variants of primary progressive aphasia.
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Published: September 23, 2025
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