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Heather E. Whitson, MD

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Heather E. Whitson, MD
Departments / Divisions
  • Medicine / Medicine - Geriatrics
  • Ophthalmology

Address
DUMC 3003
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone
Not accepting new patients

Office Telephone
919-620-4070

Fax Telephone
919-471-3624

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

Residency
  • Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 2003

Fellowship
  • Geriatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 2006

Clinical Interests
Geriatrics, particularly multimorbidity, 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)

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This faculty member has no reported relationships with industry.

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Updated: Dec. 1, 2010
Published: Dec. 12, 2006
URL: http://www.dukehealth.org/physicians/heather_e_whitson