Faculty

Denise Acampora

Lecturer in Medicine (Geriatrics)

Heather Allore

Associate Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
Director, Yale Program on Aging Biostatistics Core

Research Interests:State transition models; experimental design; longitudinal methods; missing data methods; marginal structural models; latent class models; trajectory models; dynamic stochastic models; joint models

Dorothy Baker

Research Scientist in Medicine (Geriatrics)

Research Interests:Home care of older adults; Home-based clinical trials with older adults; Fall prevention; Preventing functional decline among hospitalized older adults; Preventing functional decline among community living older adults; Adherence; Dissemination strategies to translate research findings into clinical practice

Sandy Chang

Associate Research Scientist in Medicine (Geriatrics)

Clinical Interests:geriatrics syndromes (e.g., frailty), multi-morbidity, and cognitive and functional impairment

Leo Cooney, Jr

Humana Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)

Research Interests:Geriatric medicine; assistance in elderly independence; resource utilization; transitional care models of care for nursing home residents

Clinical Interests:Geriatric assessment; rheumatology; mobility disorders

Nathalie De Rekeneire

Associate Research Scientist in Medicine (Geriatrics)
Deputy Director, Center on Disability and Disabling Disorders

Research Interests:aging;disability;diabetes;inflammation

Margaret Drickamer

Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Associate Professor of Nursing

Research Interests:Ethics and Dementia; Truth-telling in Alzheimer's disease; Decisional-capacity

Clinical Interests:Dr. Drickamer is a half–time clinician in the Yale New Haven Geriatric Practice and Medical Director at Arden House, a 360 bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, Whitney Center, a continuing care retirement community and the Home-Based Primary Care Program at VA Connecticut. She attends on the Acute Care of the Elderly Unit at Yale–New Haven Hospital and is active in housestaff teaching through their geriatric rotations and electives. She leads 2 medical student workshops on the cognitive and functional assessment of the geriatric patient

Terri Fried

Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)

Research Interests:Treatment decision-making; preferences; advance care planning; multiple conditions

Clinical Interests:Geriatric assessment; functional decline

Thomas Gill

Humana Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Investigative Medicine
Director, Yale Program on Aging
Director, Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
Director, Yale Center for Disability and Disabling Disorders
Director, Yale Training Program in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging-Related Research

Research Interests:Epidemiology and prevention of functional decline and disability among community-living older persons

Clinical Interests:Memory loss; Dementia; Geriatric assessment; Depression; Frailty; Functional decline; Disability

Jacqueline Henchel

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)

Clinical Interests:geriatric assessment; functional decline; dementia

Grace Jenq

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
Medical Director Inpatient Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Research Interests:Improving Transitions of Care; Enhancing Communication between Healthcare Providers; Simulation-Experiential Learning

Clinical Interests:Inpatient adult medicine; Geriatrics; Inpatient Operations, Quality, and Safety; Transitions of Care

Jennifer Kapo

Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
Chief, Palliative Medicine

Clinical Interests:palliative care.

Chandrika Kumar

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)

Clinical Interests:geriatric medicine

Richard Marottoli

Associate Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)

Research Interests:at-risk older drivers; driving cessation

Clinical Interests:Geriatric assessment; dementia; functional decline; assessment of older drivers

Terrence Murphy

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)

Research Interests:aging; Bayesian methods; spatial modeling; non-randomized interventional designs; multistate modeling

Peter Van Ness

Research Scientist in Medicine (Geriatrics) and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Co-Director, Biostatistics Core, Yale Program on Aging

Research Interests:analysis of categorical and longitudinal data; techniques for handling missing data; qualitative data analysis; measurement issues; gerontologic biostatistics

Carlos Vaz Fragoso

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)

Research Interests:Pulmonary function and sleep disorders in older adults

Lisa Walke

Associate Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs (Geriatrics)

Clinical Interests:Geriatric assessment; functional assessment; memory loss; depression; dementia; pre-operative geriatric assessment