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Natalia Festa, MD, MHS

Associate Research Scientist
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Associate Research Scientist

Biography

Natalia Festa, MD, is a physician trained in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Geriatrics at Yale. She completed her MHS as a fellow within the Yale Program on Aging and National Clinician Scholars Program. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and earned her MD at Stanford University. Her research focuses on identifying modifiable regulatory and health services factors that can improve person-centered aging outcomes for nursing home residents. Her research also focuses on the identification of dementia using routinely collected healthcare data.

Last Updated on April 22, 2025.

Appointments

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Education & Training

Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale School of Medicine (2024)
MHS
Yale University, National Clinician Scholars Program (2023)
Clinical Fellow
Yale New Haven Hospital (2021)
Intern and Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital (2020)
Chief Resident
Newton Wellesley Hospital (Community Training Site for Massachusetts General Hospital) (2017)
MBA
Stanford University (2017)
MD
Stanford University (2017)
AB
Harvard College (2010)

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2020

Research

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Medical Research Interests

Administrative Claims, Healthcare; Alzheimer Disease; Dementia; Geriatrics; Long-Term Care; Medicare; Nursing Homes

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Natalia Festa's published research.

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