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.
Education & Training
- 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
Languages Spoken
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Wellpoint
- Medicaid VT
- Cigna
- Railroad Medicare
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Medicaid ME
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- MassHealth
- Humana
- Medicaid RI
- TriCare
- Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Tufts Health Plan
- Multiplan
- Coventry
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Fallon Health
- Aetna
- WellSense
- United Health Care
- Beech Street