She is a core faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health and the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, with a joint appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is also a Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar. Trained in internal medicine, geriatric medicine, and epidemiology, Boyd's main interests include the clinical care of comorbid chronically ill and frail older adults both chronically and during acute illness such as hospitalization.