Rola Karam, MD

Rola Karam, MD

Assistant Professor

Department:
SOM-Medicine-GER

Email:
rkaram@umc.edu

Work Phone:
(601) 984-5610

Biography

Dr. Karam is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. As a geriatrician, she devotes her clinical time to serving the needs of older adults with multimorbidity, frailty, and cognitive impairment, with the goal of improving the health and quality of life of older adults using a shared decision-making model of patient-centered care. Her clinical responsibilities are mainly in the Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia (MIND) Center clinic, where she evaluates and treat patients with cognitive complaints and dementia, and as a teaching attending on the Geriatric Medicine inpatient service. Her patient-centered research focuses on improving our understanding of risk factors for cognitive impairment and the clinical utility of imaging modalities to diagnose and treat patients with cognitive problems. She is currently a co-investigator and a cognitive status adjudicator in the PREVENTABLE study and a co-investigator in the New IDEAS study, and she uses her expertise to adjudicate cognitive status in two large cohorts, the MarkVCID Consortium and the privately funded UMMC MIND Center – Mayo Clinic Study of Aging.

Education

University of Mississippi Medical Center, MD, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship2019
University of Mississippi Medical Center, MD, Internal Medicine Residency2018
University of Mississippi Medical Center, MD, Geriatrics Fellowship2015
Hotel Dieu De France Hospital, MD, Internal Medicine Residency2012
Saint Joseph University, MD, Medicine2008
Lebanese University, MS, Biology2001

Specialty Certification Licensure

Certification, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Board Certification, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine11/2022 - Present
Licensure, Mississippi State Board Of Medical Licensure07/2020 - Present
Certification, Geriatrics Board Certification, American Geriatrics Society10/2020 - Present
Certification, Internal Medicine Board Certification, American College of Physicians/ Internal Medicine08/2019 - Present

Current Positions

Assistant Professor, School of Medicine2020 - Present
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi 39216