Thomas M. Gill, M.D.

Thomas M. Gill, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Yale Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, has been chosen to receive the 2001 Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award from the American Geriatrics Society. Gill’s research is directed toward understanding the mechanisms underlying the development of functional decline and disability among community-living older persons and toward developing preventive strategies to forestall the onset and progression of disability among at-risk elders who are frail.