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Klodian Dhana, MD, PhD

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Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

Rush Medical College

Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

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Address: 1700 West Van Buren, Suite 245
Chicago, IL 60612
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
MD, Faculty of Medicine, Tirana University, Tirana, Albania
Klodian Dhana, MD, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center. Dhana received his PhD from Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He joined Rush University in July 2018.
Dhana's research focuses on diet, lifestyle factors, genetic risk, prediction models, life expectancy estimates, cognition, Alzheimer’s disease, and other related dementias.
Recent Selected Publications

Dhana K, Agarwal P, James BD, et al., (2024) Healthy Lifestyle and Cognition in Older Adults With Common Neuropathologies of Dementia. JAMA Neurol. 2024 Mar 1;81(3):233-239. (PMID: 38315471)

Dhana K, Beck T, Desai P, et al., (2023) Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease dementia in the 50 US states and 3142 counties: A population estimate using the 2020 bridged-race postcensal from the National Center for Health Statistics. Alzheimers Dement. 2023 Oct;19(10):4388-4395. (PMID: 37458371)

Dhana K, Franco OH, Ritz EM, et al., (2022) Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy with and without Alzheimer's dementia: population-based cohort study. BMJ. 2022 Apr 13:377:e068390. (PMID: 35418416)

Dhana K, Aggarwal NT, Rajan KB, et al., (2021) Impact of the Apolipoprotein E e4 Allele on the Relationship Between Healthy Lifestyle and Cognitive Decline: A Population-Based Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2021 Jul 1;190(7):1225-1233. (PMID: 33585904)

Dhana K, Evans DA, Rajan KB., et al., (2020) Healthy lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer dementia: Findings from 2 longitudinal studies. Neurology. 2020 Jul 28;95(4):e374-e383. (PMID: 32554763)

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