Amar Dhand, MD, PhD
NeurologyStroke
Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Adults
Languages
- English
Gender
MaleAbout Amar Dhand
Dr. Amar Dhand is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and an attending neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Mass General Brigham. He specializes in hospital neurology and stroke and cares for patients with acute and complex neurological conditions. Dr. Dhand received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his internal medicine internship, neurology residency, and fellowship in neurohospitalist medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also earned a DPhil from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Dhand has a special interest in understanding how patients’ social networks and social environments influence neurological health. His research combines network science, wearable technologies, and digital health tools to improve the detection, treatment, and outcomes of neurological illness.
Locations
- Brigham and Women's Neurology Comprehensive Stroke Center
- 60 Fenwood Road, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02115
- Get Directions
- Phone: 617-732-7432
- Fax: 617-732-5539
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: UCSF Medical Center, Neurohospitalist Medicine, 2013
- Residency: UCSF Medical Center, Neurology, 2012
- Internship: UCSF Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 2009
- Medical Education: Harvard Medical School, Medicine, 2008
Insurance
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense