The Copper Ridge Institute

Biography

Dr. Chiadi Onyike is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Onyike is specialized in neuropsychiatry and focuses on the care of individuals who have mid- and late-life dementias. His research focuses on the epidemiology and neuropsychiatry of the frontotemporal dementias, and on practical dementia care and treatment trials. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Alzheimer’s Association in Maryland, and on the association’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Board, and is active in professional and public education programs focused on the dementias.

After receiving his Medical Degree from the University of Nigeria, Dr. Onyike completed internships at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital and the St. Elizabeth’s/CMHS in Washington D.C., a fellowship in Neurochemistry/Cell Signaling at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, and fellowships in Clinical Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. He also holds a graduate degree in Clinical Epidemiology. Dr. Onyike is co-director of the Johns Hopkins Frontotemporal Dementias and Young-Onset Dementias Clinic.

Education

• MBBS – University of Nigeria College of Medicine
• Fellowship – University of Maryland at Baltimore
• Internship –St. Elizabeth’s Hospital/CMHS
• Residency -Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• MHS – Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
• Fellowship – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Selected Publications

1. Politis AM, Vozzella S, Mayer LS, Onyike CU, Baker AS, Lyketsos CG. A randomized, controlled, clinical trial of activity therapy for apathy in patients with dementia residing in long-term care. Int J Geriatric Psychiatry 2004, 19:1087-1094.
2. Rosenberg PB, Onyike CU, Katz IR, Porsteinsson AP, Mintzer JE, Schneider LS, Rabins PV, Meinert CL, Martin BK, Lyketsos CB for the Depression in Alzheimer Disease Study-2: Clinical application of operationalized criteria for “Depression of Alzheimer Disease”. Int J Geriatric Psychiatry 2005, 20:119-127.
3. Lyketsos CG, Toone L, Tschanz J, Rabins PV, Steinberg M, Onyike CU, Corcoran C, Norton M, Zandi P, Breitner JCS, Welsh-Bohmer K and the Cache County Study Group. A Population-based Study of Medical Co-morbidity in Early Dementia and “Cognitive Impairment No Dementia” (CIND): Association with Functional and Cognitive Impairment. Am J Geriatric Psychiatry 2005, 13:656-664.
4. Bienvenu OJ, Onyike CU, Chen L-S, Samuels J, Nestadt G, Eaton WW. Agoraphobia in the general population: longitudinal relationships with panic, and personality disorder trait and other risk factors for first onset, with clinical reappraisal. Br J Psychiatry 2006, 188:432-438.
5. Maust DT, Onyike CU, Sheppard JME, Mayer LS, Samus QM, Brandt J, Rabins PV, Lyketsos CG, Rosenblatt A. Predictors of Caregiver Unawareness and Non-treatment of Dementia among Residents of Assisted Living Facilities: The Maryland Assisted Living Study (MD-AL). Am J Geriatr Psychiatry