Heather E. Whitson, MD

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• Geriatrics

Department / Division:
Medicine / Geriatrics

Address:
DUMC 3003
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
Not accepting patients

Office Telephone:
919-660-7514

Fax Telephone:
919-684-8569

• MD, Weill Cornell Medical College (New York), 2000

• Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 2003

• Geriatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 2006

Clinical Interests:
Geriatrics and particularly multimorbidity (the accumulation of diseases and conditions), frailty, functional decline

Research Interests:
Comorbidity (in particular, understanding and modifying the pathway that leads from comorbidity to functional decline), Disease accumulation, Frailty, Disability, Interfaces between disabling impairment (eg cognitive impairment and visual impairment, or pain and balance impairment)