ACGME Fellowship Program - Geriatrics - Research Preceptors
Dr. Daniel Brauner
Dr. Daniel Brauner is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to medical and ethical issues primarily as they affect older people. He is interested in the field of linguistics in an effort to seek novel approaches to improving communication with persons with dementia. Currently he is developing a method for evaluating decision-making capacity in persons with dementia based on linguistics theory and discourse analysis. Another area of interest has been how the presence of dementia affects care of nondementia illnesses.
Dr. Deon Cox-Hayley
Dr. Deon Cox-Hayley's academic interests are in Geriatrics Palliative Care. She has started PATCH (Palliative Access Through Care at Home) which provides care for patients who are homebound and have advanced or multiple medical and social issues. Through this program, she is able to teach residents, medical students and learners from other disciplines about care of these patients. Her clinical interests are in primary care geriatrics, palliative care, dementia and home care.
Dr. William Dale
Dr. William Dale is focused on medical decision-making, preventive care, and quality of life in the elderly. More specifically, his research is in the area of decision-making in prostate cancer, with a focus on anxiety related to screening, diagnosis, and treatment. He is actively interested in interdisciplinary research, particularly research that integrates medicine with the social sciences. He will be helping develop programs that nurture the growth of interdisciplinary research in medicine and geriatrics, exemplified by his work with Drs. David Meltzer and Godfrey Getz in building the MD-PhD program in Medicine, the Arts, and Social Sciences.
Dr. Gorawara-Bhat
Dr. Gorawara-Bhat focuses on the area of older patient-physician communication occurring in doctors’ offices and for end-of-life care (with Dr Dale). The ways in which the physical setting becomes interlinked with communication is of particular interest to her. She has designed an instrument to measure the nonverbal dimensions of doctor-older patient interactions and has a series of publications in this area (with Dr. Sachs). Her expertise in Qualitative Methodology includes in-depth interviewing, cognitive interviewing, focus groups and survey methods as applied to research in Geriatrics and Medicine. As a core member of the research staff for over a decade, she supports the research interests of Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Ethics faculty/fellows. Some examples of her current collaborations include: a) attitudes of Hospice/ICU nurses on palliative sedation (with Dr Stacie Levine and Bansari Patel (RN); b) evaluation of a home palliative care program (PATCH) (with Dr Holley and Dr Cox-Haley); c) social aspects of diabetes self-management in older patients, including strategies for communication that facilitate self-care practices (with Dr Chin and Dr Huang); d) shared decision making among African-American patients and providers (with Dr Peek); e) parents’ perspectives on newborn screening for Fragile X Syndrome (with Dr Acharya); and f) evaluation of Preceptors’ communication with medical students (pre and post communication skills intervention) (with Dr Vargish).
Dr. Stacie Levine
Dr. Stacie Levine teaches palliative care medicine and care of the older adults in the inpatient medical setting. More specifically she is dedicated to improving the recognition and treatment of pain as well as fostering conversations about prognosis to improve transitions of care in patients with limited life expectancy. She has developed a bedside index used to prognosticate 1-year mortality in older adults after hospital discharge and hopes to use it in future work to aid clinicians in discussions of goals of care with their patients.
Dr. Carol Stocking
Dr. Carol Stocking has worked with researchers in the Section of Geriatrics for more than a decade. Most recently she has been working on the DRIPAC (Dementia Research: Informed, Proxy and Advance Consent) data including a study of the feasibility of the use of a research advance directive for persons with diminished cognitive capacity and a comparison of capacity assessments by research assistants and family caregiver/proxies. Her expertise is in survey (and similar) research methodology and she has published widely in ethics, medicine, and the social sciences. Dr. Stocking works with members of the Section as a core member of the professional staff.