Michele F. Bellantoni, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michele F. Bellantoni, M.D. is an Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center and Medical Director of the Osteoporosis Center of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
Dr. Bellantoni’s research focuses on osteoporosis, the loss of bone with aging that leads to fractures and disability. She is currently studying the effectiveness of screening for osteoporosis within the Orthopedic Surgery Outpatient Center, where patients receive care for fractures of the forearm and ankle, but are at risk for more serious fractures such as hip and spine fractures. She is also working with the FDA to improve the usefulness of heel ultrasound technology as a screening tool for osteoporosis.
As an academician, she enjoys her clinician-educator role teaching medical residents and students in the hospital, subacute rehabilitation units, and the Osteoporosis Outpatient Center. She serves as a mentor for medical students who receive awards from the John A. Hartford Foundation/ American Federation for Aging Research Scholars Program. She serves on the editorial board of the Hopkins publication, Health After 50 and she is a member of Clinical Practice Committee of the American Geriatrics Society.
Dr. Bellantoni is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and completed an internal medicine residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and fellowship training in geriatric medicine at Hopkins and the Gerontology Research Center, NIA, NIH.
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