Dr. Boyd is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine,Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and is a core faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health and the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care. Dr. Boyd is jointly appointed in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Boyd is a Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar. She is trained in internal medicine, geriatric medicine and epidemiology. Dr. Boyd’s main interests include the clinical care of comorbid chronically ill and frail older adults both chronically and during acute illness such as hospitalization. Current projects include 1) Treatment Burden Among Older adults with Multimorbidity, 2) Treatment Burden Among Older Adults with Diabetes and Multimorbidity, 3) The Importance of Competing Risks in Decision-Making for the elderly, and 4) The effects of Guided Care on Quality of Care, 5) Imporving Clinical Pratice Guidelines for the elderly.

older people, comorbidity, hospitalization, disability, functional recovery, chronic disease care, quality of life, guidelines

2009 Beeson Scholar

2008 Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar

2007 Presidential Poster Session, Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society

2007 American Geriatric Society New Investigator Award, Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society

2005 Presidential Poster Session, Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society

2005 Best Epidemiology Paper, Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society

2003 Presidential Poster Award: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Older Adults with Multiple Comorbid Conditions, Models of Geriatric Care, American Geriatric Society

2002 Presidential Poster Session, Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society

2001-2002 Geriatric Medicine Fellow, John A. Hartford Foundation

2001 Clinical Research Fellow Award, Department of Medicine Annual Retreat, Johns Hopkins University

2001 Presidential Poster Session, Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society

1995-1996 Albert C. Schweitzer Fellow, North Carolina

1995 Pathology Honor Society, Duke University School of Medicine

1995 Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, Duke University School of Medicine

1990 Summer Fellowship, American Heart Association

1988 U.S. Presidential Scholar, New Jersey

Boyd CM, Ricks M, Fried LP, Xue Q, Xia J, and Bandeen-Roche K. Functional Decline and Recovery of Activities of Daily Living among Hospitalized, Disabled Older Women: The Women’s Health and Aging Study I. In Press.

Leff B, Reider L, Frick KD, Scharfstein D, Boyd CM, Frey K, Karm L, Boult C. Guided Care and the Cost of Complex Health Care. AJMC. In Press.

Boyd CM, Landefeld S, Counsell S, Palmer RM, Fortinsky RH, Kresevic D, Burant C, Covinsky K. Recovery in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Adults Following Hospitalization for Acute Medical Illness . Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2008 Dec;56(12):2171-9.

Wolff JL, Meadow A, Weiss CO, Boyd CM, Leff B. Medicare Patients’ Home Health Transitions Through Acute and Post-Acute Care Settings. Medical Care. 2008 Nov;46(11):1188-93.

Boyd CM, Ritchie C, Tipton E, Studenski S, Wieland D. From Bedside to Bench: Summary from the American Geriatrics Society/National Institute on Aging Research Conference on Comorbidity and Multiple Morbidity in Older Adults. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 2008 Jun;20(3):181-8.

Boult C, Reider L, Frey K, Leff B, Boyd CM, Wolff JL et al. Multidimensional geriatric assessment: back to the future early effects of "guided care" on the quality of health care for multimorbid older persons: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2008 Mar;63(3):321-7.

Boyd CM, Shadmi E, Conwell L, Griswold M, Leff B, Brager R, Sylvia M, Boult C. A Pilot Test of the Effect of Guided Care on the Quality of Primary Care Experiences for Multimorbid Older Adults. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 May;23(5):536-42. Epub 2008 Feb 12.

Sylvia M, M. Griswold, L. Dunbar, C. Boyd, M. Park, C. Boult: Guided Care: Cost and Utilization Outcomes in a Pilot Study. Disease Management, 2008 Feb;11(1):29-36.

Weiss CO, Boyd CM, Wolff J, Yu Q, Leff B. Patterns of prevalent major chronic disease among older adults in the United States. JAMA, 2007 Sep 12;298(10):1160-2.

Cayea D, Boyd CM, Durso SC: Individualizing Therapy for Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus, Drugs & Aging, 2007;24(10):851-63.

Boyd CM, Boult C, Shadmi E, Leff B, Brager R, Wolff JL, Wegener S: Guided Care for Multi-Morbid Older Adults. The Gerontologist 2007 Oct;47(5):697-704.

Boyd CM, Weiss CO, Halter J, Han KC, Ershler WB, Fried LP: Framework for Evaluating Disease Severity Measures in Older Adults with Comorbidity. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2007 Mar;62(3):286-95.

Sylvia ML, Shadmi ES, Hsiao C, Boyd CM, Schuster AB, Boult C: Clinical Features of High-Risk Older Person Identified by Predictive Modeling. Disease Management. 2006 Feb;9(1):56-62.

Shadmi ES, Boyd CM, Hsiao C, Sylvia M, Schuster AB, Boult C: Morbidity and Older Persons' Perceptions of the Quality of their Primary Care. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006 Feb;54(2):330-4.

Boyd CM, Darer JD, Boult C, Fried LP, Boult L, Wu AW: Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performance. JAMA. 2005 Aug 10;294(6):716-24.

Simpson CF, Durso SC, Fried LP, Bailey T, Boyd CM, Burton J: The Johns Hopkins Geriatric Summer Scholars Program: A Model to Increase Diversity in Geriatric Medicine. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005 Sep;53(9):1607-12.

Boyd CM, Xue Q, Simpson CF, Guralnik JM, Fried LP: Frailty, Hospitalization and Progression of Disability in a Cohort of Disabled, Older Women, Am J Med. 2005 Nov;118(11):1225-31.

Wolff J, Boult C, Boyd CM, Anderson G: Newly Reported Chronic Conditions and Onset of Functional Dependency. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 53:851-855, 2005.

Boyd CM, Xue Q, Guralnik JM, and Fried LP. Hospitalization and Development of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) in a Cohort of Disabled Older Women: The Women's Health and Aging Study I. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2005 Jun;60(7):888-93.

Simpson CF, Boyd CM, Carlson MC, Griswold ME, Guralnik JM, Fried LP: Agreement Between Self-Report of Disease Diagnoses and Medical Record Validation in Disabled Older Women: Factors That Modify Agreement. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2004 Jan;52(1):123-127.

Michelson KN, Thomas JC, Boyd C, and Janssens AH. Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a rural population: the importance of screening men. Int J STD AIDS. 1999 Jan;10(1)32-7.

Xu J, Boyd CM, Livingston E, Meyer W, Madden JF, and Mitchell TG. Species and genotypic diversities and similarities of pathogenic yeasts colonizing women. J Clin Microbiol. 1999 Dec; 37(12):3835-43.