Faculty Research
Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Faculty
Primary Faculty
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Amna Buttar, MBBS, MS
Clinical Associate
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Lauren Gleason, MD MPH
Assistant Professor
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Age-Friendly Health Systems: The 4Ms, medical education, delirium, interprofessional education, nursing home, COVID-19
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Vasyl Hereha, MD
Assistant Professor
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Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD MPH
Associate Professor
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Frailty, frailty implementation in clinical practice, technology and aging, wearable sensors, activity monitoring, voice-first technology
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Tia Kostas, MD
Associate Professor
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Polypharmacy, physician-pharmacist collaborative management, medication safety, interprofessional education, interprofessional collaboration
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A. Justine Landi, MD
Assistant Professor
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Frailty, pre-operative geriatric assessments, medical ethics, opioid use disorder, public health, advanced care planning
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Heather Leeper, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor
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Stacie Levine, MD, FAAHPM
Professor
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Opioids, palliative care, interdisciplinary education, care transitions
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Monica Malec, MD
Associate Professor
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Palliative care, pain management, cancer pain management, opioid management, advance care planning
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Katherine Thompson, MD
Associate Professor
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Medical education, workforce development, community outreach, frailty, SHARE Network
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Sandy Tun, MD
Assistant Professor
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Palliative medicine, quality of life, palliative care in cancer, medical education, mindfulness
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Shellie Williams, MD, FAAHPM
Associate Professor
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Dementia, caregivers, Alzheimer’s disease, palliative communication, advance care planning
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Elizabeth Zavala, MBBS, MS
Assistant Professor
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Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Secondary Appointee Faculty Research
Elbert Huang, MD MPH General Internal Medicine
Stacy Lindau, MD, MAPP, FACOG Obstetrics and Gynecology
Teresita Hogan, MD Emergency Medicine
R Tamara Konetzka, PhD Public Health Sciences
James Wallace, MD Hematology Oncology and Geriatrics
Erin Zahradnik, MD Geriatric Psychiatry
Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Collaborating Faculty Research
Mim Ari, MD General Internal Medicine
Vineet Arora, MD MPH General Internal Medicine
Mark Ferguson, MD Surgery-Thoracic
Louise Hawkley, PhD Academic Research Centers, NORC
Neda Laiteerapong, MD MPH General Internal Medicine
Diane Lauderdale, PhD Public Health Sciences
M. Lucia Madariaga, MD Surgery-Thoracic
James Mastrianni, MD, PhD Neurology
David Meltzer, MD PhD Hospital Medicine
Jay Pinto, MD Surgery-Otolaryngology-Head and Neck
Valerie Press, MD MPH General Internal Medicine
Micah Prochaska, MD MS Hospital Medicine
Daniel Rubin, MD Anesthesia and Critical Care
Sangram Sisodia, PhD Neurobiology
Linda Waite, PhD Sociology