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News Release

February 21, 2013

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
Email: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu

Geriatrician Rejoins UConn Health Center

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Dr. Yazeed Maghaydah is back at the University of Connecticut Health Center, seeing patients in the UConn Center on Aging.

Maghaydah is a UConn-trained geriatrician with expertise in memory disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. He rejoins the UConn Center on Aging, where he completed a geriatric medicine fellowship, from private practice in Norwich. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark following a general surgery residency in Jordan, where he also completed medical school.

Maghaydah is board-certified in geriatrics and internal medicine and is fluent in Arabic. He lives in Glastonbury.

More information about the UConn Center on Aging is available at www.uconn-aging.uchc.edu/patientcare. To schedule an appointment, call 860-679-8400.

High-resolution photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/maghaydah.jpg
Caption: Dr. Yazeed Maghaydah is seeing patients in the UConn Center on Aging at the UConn Health Center.

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