Department / Division:
Medicine / Geriatrics

Address:
DUMC 3003
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-620-4070

Office Telephone:
919-620-4070

Fax Telephone:
919-471-3624

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

• Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 2003

• Geriatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 2006

Clinical Interests:
Geriatrics, particularly multi-morbidity, 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)