Faculty Research

Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Faculty

Primary Faculty

 

Lauren Gleason, MD MPH

Assistant Professor

Research focus:
Age-Friendly Health Systems: The 4Ms, medical education, delirium, interprofessional education, nursing home, COVID-19

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Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD MPH

Assistant Professor

Research focus:
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

Research focus:
Polypharmacy, physician-pharmacist collaborative management, medication safety, interprofessional education, interprofessional collaboration

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A. Justine Landi, MD

Assistant Professor

Research focus:
Frailty, pre-operative geriatric assessments, medical ethics, opioid use disorder, public health, advanced care planning

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Stacie Levine, MD, FAAHPM

Professor

Research focus:
Opioids, palliative care, interdisciplinary education, care transitions

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Monica Malec, MD

Associate Professor

Research focus:
Palliative care, pain management, cancer pain management, opioid management, advance care planning

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Charles Rhee, MD

Assistant Professor

Research focus:
Coming soon…

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Katherine Thompson, MD

Associate Professor

Research focus:
Medical education, workforce development, community outreach, frailty, SHARE Network

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Sandy Tun, MD

Assistant Professor

Research focus:
Palliative medicine, quality of life, palliative care in cancer, medical education, mindfulness

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Jacob Walker, MD

Assistant Professor

Research focus:
HIV, polypharmacy, multimorbidity, geriatrics, nursing homes

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Shellie Williams, MD, FAAHPM

Associate Professor

Research focus:
Dementia, caregivers, Alzheimer’s disease, palliative communication, advance care planning

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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 Gynecoloty


Teresita Hogan, MD Emergency Medicine


R Tamara Konetzka, PhD Public Health Sciences


James Wallace, MD  Hematology Oncology and Geriatrics


Erin Zahradnik, MD 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


Michelle Martinchek, MD MPH


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