Mara McAdams DeMarco - Faculty Directory - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Mara McAdams DeMarco, PhD

Associate Professor

Departmental Affiliations

Epidemiology (Primary)

Center & Institute Affiliations

Contact Information

615 N. Wolfe Street
Room W6033
Baltimore, Maryland 21205

410-502-1950
mara@jhu.edu

PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2011
MS, Harvard School of Public Health, 2006
BS, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Faculty Innovation Fund, 2015

American Society for Transplant Surgeons Junior Investigator Award, 2015

American Journal of Kidney Disease Reviewer Hall of Fame, 2017

My research focuses on the epidemiology of aging with a specific interest patients with end stage kidney disease. In particular, I seek to better understanding how novel metrics of aging like frailty and cognitive function can improve risk prediction in kidney transplant recipients and patients undergoing hemodialysis. Additionally, I am conducting a 2-by-2 factorial RCT to identify interventions to preserve cognitive function among patients initiating hemodialysis. Finally, I study the impact of medications on age-related outcomes among patients with end-stage kidney disease using national registry data linked to Medicare claims.
frailty
cognitive function
end-stage kidney disease
pharmacoepidemiology

These five publications represent my diverse interest including pharmacoepidemiology, the epidemiology of aging and renal epidemiology.

McAdams DeMarco MA, Grams ME, Hall EC, Coresh J, Segev DL. Early hospital readmission after kidney transplantation: patient and center-level associations. American Journal of Transplantation. 2012; 12:3283-6.
McAdams-DeMarco MA, Law A, King E, Orandi B, Salter M, Gupta N, Chow E, Alachkar N, Desai N, Varadhan R, Walston J, Segev D. Frailty and Mortality in Kidney Transplant Recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 2015; 15: 149-54.
McAdams-DeMarco MA, Daubresse M, Bae S, Gross AL, Carlson MC, Segev DL. Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Mortality After Hemodialysis Initiation. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2018; 13: 1339-1347.
Haugen CE, Mountford A, Warsame F, Berkowitz R, Bae S, Thomas A, Brown CH IV, Brennan DC, Neufeld KJ, Carlson MC, Segev DL, McAdams-DeMarco M. Incidence, Risk Factors, and Sequelae of Post-Kidney Transplant Delirium. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2018; 1752-1759.
Chu NM, Gross AL, Shaffer AA, Haugen CE, Norman SP, Xue Q, Sharrett AR, Carlson M, Bandeen-Roche K, Segev DL, McAdams-DeMarco MA. Frailty and Cognitive Change Among Kidney Transplant Recipients—Failure to Recover to Baseline Levels. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. In press.