Brienne Miner, MD, MHS

Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Research: Dr. Miner is an internist who completed subspecialty training in geriatric medicine, sleep medicine, and postdoctoral research training in clinical epidemiology and aging-related research. She is interested in the evaluation and management of symptoms in older adults, and whether a model that takes into account a broad array of impairments is more predictive of symptoms than the traditional disease model, where symptoms are thought to arise from specific diseases. Dr. Miner’s prior work focused on the symptoms of dyspnea, insomnia, and hypersomnia (daytime sleepiness). Her current research examines sleep deficiency, a global construct considering deficits that arise from impairments in sleep duration, quality, and/or timing. She uses self-reported and objective measures to describe this phenomenon in older adults with and without cognitive impairment.