Natalia Festa, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor in Medicine (Geriatrics)Cards
About
Titles
Assistant Professor in Medicine (Geriatrics)
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
Geriatric Medicine
Assistant ProfessorPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
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
Overview
Medical Research Interests
Administrative Claims, Healthcare; Alzheimer Disease; Dementia; Geriatrics; Long-Term Care; Medicare; Nursing Homes
Clinical Care
Board Certifications
Internal Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Internal Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2020