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Adriana Hermida, MD

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Adriana Hermida, MD

Professor; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Dr. Adriana Hermida is a Professor at Emory University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. She completed her residency training at the University of Chicago and her Geriatric Psychiatric fellowship at Northwestern University. Dr. Hermida is a consulting physician in the outpatient clinic. In her role as Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship, she mentors Geriatric Fellows, psychiatry residents and medical students. Dr. Hermida’s area of interest is neuropsychiatry and the behavioral aspects of neurodegenerative disorders. She is involved in research with transcranial magnetic stimulation and neuroimaging in Alzheimer’s diseases.

She is an active partner in Emory’s Movement Disorders division and is a member of the Parkinson’s Disease Comprehensive Care Clinic. She is involved in doing research on Huntington’s Disease (HD) with the Emory HD Center of Excellence.