Mary E. Tinetti

Mary E. Tinetti, M.D., director of the Yale Program on Aging and the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics), professor of epidemiology (chronic diseases), and of investigative medicine, in the Section of Geriatrics, has been awarded the Edward Henderson Award from the American Geriatrics Society. Tinetti was the first investigator to show that older adults at risk for falling and injury can be identified; that falls and injuries are associated with a range of serious adverse outcomes; and that multifaceted risk-reduction strategies are both effective and cost-effective. Tinetti was also the 2010 recipient of the Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging from the Gerontological Society of America.