Lisa Bob, MD
Lisa Bob received her MD from the Yale School of Medicine and completed a residency in family medicine at Brown University, where she subsequently taught in the Family Medicine Department. In the 1990s, she did a fellowship in geriatric medicine and completed an MPH in epidemiology at the University of Minnesota, where she taught until 2001. She then assumed a faculty position in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she served as medical director of the geriatric assessment clinic, a post-acute care unit, and an inpatient unit for the evaluation and treatment of complex dementias. She received teaching awards at the University of Minnesota and at Johns Hopkins.
While practicing and teaching at Johns Hopkins, Bob did graduate work in the history of medicine and was granted a PhD from John Hopkins in 2014. She served on the governing council of the American Association for the History of Medicine from 2013–16. Currently, she is working on a book about James Parkinson and the early history of Parkinson’s disease.