Cynthia S. Rand, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Rand is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Departments of Medicine, in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, with joint appointments in Psychiatry and Public Health. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and her Master's and Doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University. After receiving her doctorate, Dr. Rand completed postdoctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins in both pediatrics and psychiatry. Dr. Rand is an internationally recognized expert in the area of medication adherence.  Her research interests focus on psychosocial factors associated with pediatric and adult adherence to asthma therapy, adherence interventions, patient-provider communication, and health disparities.  Dr. Rand is the author of over 100 publications in the areas of asthma, adherence, minority health, and quality of life.  She is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Adherence Research, a core facility that utilizes state-of-the-art measurement strategies for the assessment of patient adherence in both NIH- and industry-sponsored studies.   Dr. Rand is the past chair of the Behavioral Sciences Assembly of the American Thoracic Society, and a former member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Task Force on the Contributions of Behavioral Science to the Prevention of Heart, Lung and Blood Disease and the NHLBI Clinical Trials Review Group.  Dr. Rand is Principal Investigator and Director of the NIH-sponsored Howard-Hopkins Center for Reducing Asthma Disparities, as well Principal Investigator of two NIH projects that examine adherence promotion for urban teens with asthma and asthma management for high-risk pre-school children. Dr. Rand is the past chair of the Johns Hopkins Task Force on the Status of Women in the Department of Medicine, the 2002 recipient of the Department of Medicine David L. Levine Excellence in Mentoring Award, and the 2003 recipient of the Women’s Leadership Award from the Johns Hopkins Women’s Leadership Network.