Linda P. Fried, M.D. is the Director of the Center on Aging and Health, and the Director of the Training Program in Clinical and Population-based Research on Aging and of the Epidemiology of Aging Course in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Her core research interests are prevention and health promotion for older adults, with particular emphasis on the discovery of the causes of frailty and disability and their prevention. Dr. Fried is the Principal Investigator of major population-based research projects, including 1) the Women’s Health and Aging Studies I, II and III, which are dedicated to determining the causes and consequences of disability and frailty in older women; 2) the Cardiovascular Health Study, a multi-center prospective observational study of the causes and consequences of cardiovascular diseases in older men and women; 3) the Experience Corps program, a community-based program designed to bring the skills and time of older adults into public elementary schools to improve the educational outcomes for the children, while also being a health promotion program for the older adults; 4) the GEM (Gingko Evaluation for Memory) randomized, controlled trial to determine whether gingko biloba prevents dementia and cognitive decline in older adults; and 5) the Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center, a Medical Institutions-wide, multidisciplinary initiative to discover the causes of frailty in older adults. Each of these research programs are described more fully elsewhere on this web site. She has published numerous articles on the causes and consequences of frailty and disability with aging, and both clinical and population-based strategies for prevention for older adults.

Dr. Fried is a board-certified internist and geriatrician, with postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in geriatrics, general internal medicine and epidemiology (cardiovascular and aging). She received her M.D. from Rush Medical College and M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Fried was named a Kaiser Faculty Scholar in General Internal Medicine, and is the recipient of a National Institute on Aging MERIT Award, as well as numerous awards for her research accomplishments and her mentoring. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Source: Bloomberg School of Public Health Faculty