Lyketsos Constantine

Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor and Chair

USA

Maryland

London, 1961

Johns Hopkins University and Medicine

School of Medicine & Bloomberg School of Public Health

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Bayview,


A native of Athens, Greece, Constantine G. Lyketsos, MD, MHS, FACLP, FACPsych, FACNP is the Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor at Johns Hopkins where he Chairs the Bayview Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He graduated from Athens College, Northwestern University and then received a Medical Doctorate at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis.  He completed residency and Chief Residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, as well as a fellowship in clinical epidemiology. A world-renowned expert in treatment development for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, he is an active clinician, teacher, and researcher. Dr. Lyketsos founded the Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center which he directs. He also founded and directs the Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence on Alzheimer’s Disease, and is Associate Director of NIH-funded Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Dr. Lyketsos has received multiple major awards, and authored over 400 articles, as well as five books. His work has been cited over 58,000 times with an h-index of 129. Castle-Connolly has named him as one of America’s Top Doctors every year since 2001.