Constantine G. Lyketsos

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Constantine G. Lyketsos (born 5 November 1961) is the Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor in Alzheimer's Disease Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. [1] He is the founding director of the Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Alzheimer's Disease, [2] and an associate director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC). [3]

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Education

Constantine (Kostas) Lyketsos was born on 5 November 1961 in London and grew up in Athens. After completing grade and high school at Athens College, he attended Northwestern University, where he earned a B.A. in Psychology, followed by a medical doctorate (MD) from Washington University. In 1993, he received a Masters in Health Sciences (MHS) in Epidemiology/Clinical Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University. [4]

Research and career

Lyketsos' research mainly focuses on treatment development for neurodegenerative disease especially dementia and Alzheimer's disease. [5] His work employs the methods of translational and interventional epidemiology and involve biomarkers, and brain imaging. [6]

He has conducted seminal research on the neuropsychiatric disturbances (NPS) associated with degenerative brain disease including studies of patterns of occurrence and impact of NPS on dementia or transition from normal to Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia. [7] Lyketsos’ team is developing biomarkers to accelerate treatment development for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of brain injury. [8] He was a Senior fellow at the school of medicine, Johns Hopkins University. He previously served as Chair of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Taskforce on Subspecialization which spearheaded approval of the Psychiatric subspecialty of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry in 2004. [9] [10]

As of 1 July 2021, Lyketsos’ scholarly work had an h-index of 129, with more than 58,000 citations. [11]

Awards and honors

Lyketsos was awarded the 2006 William S. Proxmire Prize as a leader in the fight against Alzheimer's Disease. [12] Additional awards include Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, as well as the geriatric psychiatrytrifecta: Distinguished Scientist Award (American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry), Jack Weinberg Award in Geriatric Psychiatry (American Psychiatric Association), and the Geriatric Research Award (American College of Psychiatrists). [13] [14] [15] [16]

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  2. ↑ Molnar, Heather. "Johns Hopkins inHealth". www.hopkinsmedicine.org. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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  5. ↑ Ismail, Zahinoor; Agüera-Ortiz, Luis; Brodaty, Henry; Cieslak, Alicja; Cummings, Jeffrey; Fischer, Corinne E.; Gauthier, Serge; Geda, Yonas E.; Herrmann, Nathan; Kanji, Jamila; Lanctôt, Krista L. (1 January 2017). "The Mild Behavioral Impairment Checklist (MBI-C): A Rating Scale for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Pre-Dementia Populations". Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 56 (3): 929–938. doi:10.3233/JAD-160979. ISSN   1387-2877. PMC   5652315 . PMID   28059789.
  6. ↑ Ganguli, Mary; Albanese, Emiliano; Seshadri, Sudha; Bennett, David A.; Lyketsos, Constantine; Kukull, Walter A.; Skoog, Ingmar; Hendrie, Hugh C. (2018). "Population Neuroscience: Dementia Epidemiology serving Precision Medicine and Population Health". Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders. 32 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1097/WAD.0000000000000237. ISSN   0893-0341. PMC   5821530 . PMID   29319603.
  7. ↑ Lyketsos, Constantine G.; Carrillo, Maria C.; Ryan, J. Michael; Khachaturian, Ara S.; Trzepacz, Paula; Amatniek, Joan; Cedarbaum, Jesse; Brashear, Robert; Miller, David S. (2011). "Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease". Alzheimer's & Dementia. 7 (5): 532–539. doi:10.1016/j.jalz.2011.05.2410. ISSN   1552-5260. PMC   3299979 . PMID   21889116.
  8. ↑ Lyketsos, Constantine G.; Szekely, Christine A.; Mielke, Michelle M.; Rosenberg, Paul B.; Zandi, Peter P. (8 October 2008). "Developing new treatments for Alzheimer's disease". International Psychogeriatrics / IPA. 20 (5): 871–889. doi:10.1017/S1041610208007382. ISSN   1041-6102. PMC   2688723 . PMID   18498669.
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  17. ↑ Rabins, Peter V. (1999). Practical dementia care. Lyketsos, Constantine G., Steele, Cynthia, 1947-. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-510625-3. OCLC   40331195.
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  20. ↑ Psychiatric aspects of neurologic diseases: practical approaches to patient care. Lyketsos, Constantine G. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008. ISBN   978-1-4356-3357-5. OCLC   213447266.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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