Rola Abi Saleh, MD
Specialties: Geriatrics
Gender: Female
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.
Practice Locations
|
1
UMMC Colony Park South
326 Commerce Center Drive, Ridgeland, MS 39157 View Location |
Accepted Insurance Plans
The University of Mississippi Medical Center accepts all plans, but may not be an in-network provider with your plan. We encourage you to contact your insurer and ask if the plan is in network with UMMC. Always contact your insurance carrier for specific coverage information.
*Note: Grenada and Holmes County locations have different payor contracts. Oral Surgeons are considered in-network to the medical health plans listed below NOT dental.
Medicare health insurance plans
- Humana Medicare Advantage
- Medicare - Fee For Service
- Railroad Medicare - Fee for Service
- Shared Health Mississippi
- United Healthcare (except DSNP)
- Vantage Health Plan - Medicare Advantage
- Wellcare - Medicare Advantage
Medicaid health plans
- Mississippi Medicaid
- MS CAN - Magnolia Health Plan, Molina HealthCare, United Healthcare
- Medicaid MS CHIP - Molina MS CHIP and United Healthcare
Dental plans
- Always Care
- Medicaid
- MS CAN - Magnolia Health Plan, Molina HealthCare, United Healthcare
- Ambetter - Magnolia Health Plan
Commercial, Marketplace and other health plans
- Always Care - Dental & Vision
- Avesis (Molina)
- Aetna Health Management
- Ambetter - Magnolia Health Plan
- American Life Care - PHCS/Multiplan
- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi
- Cenpatico - Behavioral Health
- Cigna PPO and Behavioral Health (excludes transplants)
- Corvel Healthcare Corp
- First Choice Health Plan - includes Humana PPO Commercial, but not Humana Medicare Advantage
- First Health Network/Coventry - Aetna
- Government Employees Health Insurance Association (GEHA) - United Healthcare
- Hattiesburg Clinic Professional Association - MPCN
- Interlink Health Services - Transplant Services
- LifeTrac - Transplant Services
- Mississippi Department of Rehab Services (MDRS)
- Mississippi Health Partners (MHP) - Family Medicine Only
- Mississippi Physicians Care Network (MPCN)
- Mississippi State Hospital
- Mississippi State and School Employees' Health Insurance Plan (AHS Network administered by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi)
- Multiplan - PHCS/American Life Care
- North Mississippi Health Link
- OptumHealth Care Solutions, Inc. - Transplant Services
- OptumHealth VA CCN
- PPO Plus, LLC/Zelis/Stratose
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- Tricare
- United Healthcare - PPO Commercial, CHIP, MSCAN, Behavioral Health
- Vantage Health Plan - Commercial, PPACA Plan and Medicare Advantage Plan
- Veterans Administration
Education
| Board Certification: | Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine |
| Fellowship: | University of Mississippi Medical Center |
| Fellowship: | University of Mississippi Medical Center |
| Internship: | Hotel Dieu De France Hospital |
| Medical Education: | St. Joseph University |
| Residency: | University of Mississippi Medical Center |
| Residency: | Hotel Dieu De France Hospital |
Experience
Current Positions
| Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N State Street, MS 39216 | 2020 - Present |
Specialty Certification Licensure
| Certification, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Board Certification, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine | 11/2022 - Present |
| Licensure, Mississippi State Board Of Medical Licensure | 07/2020 - Present |
| Certification, Geriatrics Board Certification, American Geriatrics Society | 10/2020 - Present |
| Certification, Internal Medicine Board Certification, American College of Physicians/ Internal Medicine | 08/2019 - Present |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Spirit of the Program Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 2018 |
| Best resident of the month, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 2017 |
| Highest score in the final exam of Internal Medicine Residency, Hotel Dieu De France | 2011 |