Richard W. Besdine, MD, has devoted his career to development and advancement of geriatrics through university-based and public health care policy work; he has developed and managed research, health care delivery systems and educational programs on aging at a university base, and served as a senior healthcare executive in the Federal government. He is currently Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Services Policy and Practice at Brown. In the fall of 2019, he stepped down after 20 years as Director of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Chief of Geriatrics for Lifespan, and first Greer Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Alpert Medical School; and as Director of the Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research at the Brown School of Public Health. Dr. Besdine served as Interim Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences of Brown Medical School (2002-2005). He also serves on the Board of Directors of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island – the State’s Medicaid plan.
His most relevant honors and awards are 1) Best Doctors in America for academic internal medicine and geriatrics 1990-2019; 2)Top Doctors in Rhode Island, Rhode Island Monthly (Geriatrics) – every year through 2019; 3) Milton Hamolsky Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the field of Internal Medicine (American College of Physicians, RI Chapter); and 4) Beckwith Family Award for Outstanding Teaching, Department of Medicine, Alpert Medical School.
Dr. Besdine has authored more than 125 scholarly publications on aging, and edits widely in medicine. Before coming to Brown in 2000, he was Professor of Medicine, founding Director of the UConn Center on Aging and first Travelers Professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the U of CT Medical School. He was also PI of a NIH Older Americans Independence Center, and oversaw studies of interventions to prolong vitality in older persons. He began his academic career at Harvard Medical School, where he co-founded Harvard's Division on Aging and developed one of the first academic Geriatrics programs.
Dr. Besdine spent 1995-1997 in Federal service; he was first Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Health Standards and Quality Bureau for the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA, now CMS), responsible for setting standards, inspection, enforcement and improvement of health care quality for the nation’s then-70 million Medicare beneficiaries and Medicaid recipients.
A graduate of Haverford College (cum laude) and of U of PA School of Medicine, he trained in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Besdine trained in Geriatrics at the University of Glasgow in 1972 with Sir Ferguson Anderson. He is board certified in internal medicine, geriatrics and infectious disease.
| Eltorai, Adam E. M., Besdine, Richard W. "Advance directive repository." Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 27, no. 1, 2014, pp. 97-98. |
| Eltorai AE, Besdine RW. "Mandating advance directives." Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 26, no. 3, 2014, pp. 315-7. |
| McNicoll L, Fulton AT, Ritter D, Besdine RW. "Cadaver treasure hunt: introducing geriatrics concepts in the anatomy class." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 60, no. 5, 2012, pp. 962-6. |
| Besdine RW. "Reflections by an American on being a visiting professor in Italy." Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2012, pp. 106-7. |
| Buchanan IM, Besdine RW. "A systematic review of curricular interventions teaching transitional care to physicians-in-training and physicians." Academic Medicine, vol. 86, no. 5, 2011, pp. 628-39. |
| Besdine RW, Shield RR, McNicoll L, Campbell SE, Wetle T. "Integrating and evaluating geriatrics in medical school: a novel approach for the challenge." Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol. 32, no. 4, 2011, pp. 295-308. |
| Besdine RW, Wetle TF. "Opportunities to improve healthcare outcomes for elderly people and reduce re-hospitalization." Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 23, no. 5-6, 2011, pp. 427-30. |
| Baier R, Gardner R, Gravenstein S, Besdine R. "Partnering to improve hospital-physician office communication through implementing care transitions best practices." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 94, no. 6, 2011, pp. 178-82. |
| Mor V, Besdine RW. "Policy options to improve discharge planning and reduce rehospitalization." JAMA, vol. 305, no. 3, 2011, pp. 302-3. |
| Shield RR, Tong I, Tomas M, Besdine RW. "Teaching communication and compassionate care skills: an innovative curriculum for pre-clerkship medical students." Medical Teacher, vol. 33, no. 8, 2011, pp. e408-16. |
| Maggi S, Siviero P, Wetle T, Besdine RW, Saugo M, Crepaldi G, Hip Fracture Study Group. "A multicenter survey on profile of care for hip fracture: predictors of mortality and disability." Osteoporosis International, vol. 21, no. 2, 2010, pp. 223-31. |
| Besdine RW, Wetle TF. "Improving health for elderly people: an international health promotion and disease prevention agenda." Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 22, no. 3, 2010, pp. 219-30. |
| Besdine RW, Wu D. "Aging of the human nervous system: what do we know?." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 91, no. 5, 2008, pp. 129-31. |
| Gravenstein S, Besdine RW. "From Occam's razor to multimorbidity: geriatrics comes of age." Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 20, no. 3, 2008, pp. 179-80. |
| Shield RR, Wetle TF, Besdine RW. "Preparing for the silver tsunami: the integration of geriatrics into the new medical curriculum at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 91, no. 8, 2008, pp. 247-9. |
| Wenger, Neil S., Solomon, David H., Amin, Alpesh, Besdine, Richard K., Blazer, Dan G., Cohen, Harvey, Fulmer, Terry, Ganz, Patricia A., Grunwald, Mark, Hall, William J., Katz, Paul R., Kitzman, Dalane W., Leipzig, Rosanne M., Rosenthal, Ronnie A. "Application of Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders-3 Quality Indicators to Patients with Advanced Dementia and Poor Prognosis." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 55, 2007, pp. S457-S463. |
| Ouslander, Joseph G., Patry, Gail, Besdine, Richard W. "Quality Improvement in Nursing Homes: A Call to Action." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, vol. 8, no. 3, 2007, pp. 138-141. |
| McNicoll L, Besdine RW. "The future of delirium research: promising but still room for improvement." Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 19, no. 3, 2007, pp. 169-71. |
| Tuya AC, Besdine RW. "Using the comprehensive clinical approach to older patients." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 90, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27-8. |
| Besdine R, Boult C, Brangman S, Coleman EA, Fried LP, Gerety M, Johnson JC, Katz PR, Potter JF, Reuben DB, Sloane PD, Studenski S, Warshaw G, American Geriatrics Society Task Force on the Future of Geriatric Medicine. "Caring for older Americans: the future of geriatric medicine." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 53, no. 6 Suppl, 2005, pp. S245-56. |
| Solomon DH, Wenger NS, Saliba D, Young RT, Adelman AM, Besdine RK, Blazer DG, Cassell CK, Cummings JL, Katz PR, Kitzman DW, Lavizzo-Mourey RJ, Mondoux LC, Popovich R, Pories WJ, Wenger N. "Appropriateness of quality indicators for older patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosis." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 51, no. 7, 2003, pp. 902-7. |
| Besdine RW. "Alzheimer's disease in RI: perspectives in 2002." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 85, no. 7, 2002, pp. 200-1. |
| Cassel CK, Besdine RW, Siegel LC. "Restructuring Medicare for the next century: what will beneficiaries really need?." Health Affairs, vol. 18, no. 1, 1999, pp. 118-31. |
| Besdine RW. "Improving health care quality by reimbursement policy." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 46, no. 6, 1998, pp. 788-90. |
| Bradley EH, Besdine R. "Outcomes-based quality improvement: reducing the data collection burden." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 46, no. 4, 1998, pp. 534-5. |
| Fried BM, Besdine RW. "A perspective on academic medicine from the nation's largest managed care purchaser." Academic Medicine, vol. 71, no. 3, 1996, pp. 260-1. |
| Besdine RW. "Geriatrics content in residency curricula." The American Journal of Medicine, vol. 97, no. 4A, 1994, pp. 10S-12S. |
| Besdine RW, Rubenstein LZ, Cassel C. "Nursing home residents need physicians' services." Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 120, no. 7, 1994, pp. 616-8. |
| Mason RP, Besdine RW. "Aluminum in Alzheimer's disease." JAMA, vol. 270, no. 15, 1993, pp. 1868. |
| Kenny AM, Besdine RW. "Clinical problem-solving: sounds in the attic." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 328, no. 20, 1993, pp. 1499-500. |
| Besdine RW. "Stroke prevention in the elderly." Connecticut medicine, vol. 57, no. 5, 1993, pp. 287-92. |
| Prestwood KM, Besdine RW. "Geriatric medicine." JAMA, vol. 268, no. 3, 1992, pp. 360-2. |
| Smith DM, Winsemius DK, Besdine RW. "Pressure sores in the elderly: can this outcome be improved?." J GEN INTERN MED, vol. 6, no. 1, 1991, pp. 81-93. |
| Epstein AM, Hall JA, Fretwell M, Feldstein M, DeCiantis ML, Tognetti J, Cutler C, Constantine M, Besdine R, Rowe J. "Consultative geriatric assessment for ambulatory patients. A randomized trial in a health maintenance organization." JAMA, vol. 263, no. 4, 1990, pp. 538-44. |
| Coll PP, O'Connor PJ, Crabtree BF, Besdine RW. "Prevalence of mammography use in a nursing home population." The Journal of family practice, vol. 30, no. 6, 1990, pp. 682-5. |
| Coll PP, O'Connor PJ, Crabtree BF, Besdine RW. "Effects of age, education, and physician advice on utilization of screening mammography." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 37, no. 10, 1989, pp. 957-62. |
| Besdine RW. "The maturing of geriatrics." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 320, no. 3, 1989, pp. 181-2. |
| Besdine RW. "Functional assessment as a model for clinical evaluation of geriatric patients." public health reports, vol. 103, no. 5, 1988, pp. 530-6. |
| Fulmer T, Wetle T, Levkoff S, Besdine RW, Vince C, Liptzin B. "Geriatric education for visiting faculty trainees: the Harvard Geriatric Education Center." Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol. 8, no. 3-4, 1988, pp. 49-57. |
| Levkoff SE, Cleary PD, Wetle T, Besdine RW. "Illness behavior in the aged. Implications for clinicians." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 36, no. 7, 1988, pp. 622-9. |
| Besdine RW. "A prescription for successful aging." Connecticut medicine, vol. 51, no. 9, 1987, pp. 619-20. |
| Beers M, Besdine R. "Medical assessment of the elderly patient." Clinics in geriatric medicine, vol. 3, no. 1, 1987, pp. 17-27. |
| Epstein AM, Hall JA, Besdine R, Cumella E Jr, Feldstein M, McNeil BJ, Rowe JW. "The emergence of geriatric assessment units. The "new technology of geriatrics"." Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 106, no. 2, 1987, pp. 299-303. |
| Levkoff SE, Besdine RW, Wetle T. "Acute confusional states (delirium) in the hospitalized elderly." Annual review of gerontology & geriatrics, vol. 6, 1986, pp. 1-26. |
| Besdine RW. "Pneumonia and influenza: vaccination of elderly is justified." Geriatrics, vol. 41, no. 11, 1986, pp. 13-6. |
| Besdine RW. "Decisions to withhold treatment from nursing home residents." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 31, no. 10, 1983, pp. 602-6. |
| Besdine RW. "Dementia: the single most important problem facing health care professionals in the next 30 to 50 years." The Canadian journal of psychiatric nursing, vol. 24, no. 3, 1983, pp. 11, 14, 18. |
| Besdine RW. "The educational utility of comprehensive functional assessment in the elderly." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 31, no. 11, 1983, pp. 651-6. |
| Besdine RW. "Accidental hypothermia: the body's energy crisis." Geriatrics, vol. 34, no. 12, 1979, pp. 51-9. |
| Pine L, Besdine R, Reeves M, Bradley G. "Immunological characteristics of heat-killed Streptococcus type 1--sonic fractions obtained by zonal fractionation." Microbios, vol. 3, no. 12, 1971, pp. 225-46. |
| Besdine RW, Schlossman SF. "In vitro lymphocyte responses." New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 282, no. 24, 1970, pp. 1371-2. |
| Besdine RW, Pine L. "Preparation and description of high-molecular-weight soluble surface antigens from a group A Streptococcus." Journal of bacteriology, vol. 96, no. 6, 1968, pp. 1953-60. |
| Zweiman B, Besdine RW, Hildreth EA. "Mitotic response induced in sensitive guinea-pigs by tuberculin." J. Geophys. Res., vol. 212, no. 5060, 1966, pp. 422-3. |
| Zweiman B, Besdine RW, Hildreth EA. "The effect of the scorbutic state on tuberculin hypersensitivity in the guinea pig. II. In vitro mitotic response of lymphocytes." The Journal of Immunology, vol. 96, no. 4, 1966, pp. 672-5. |
Richard W. Besdine, MD, has committed his career to improving health and healthcare outcomes for older adults. He has led a NIH Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, conducting and overseeing research to improve function in older adults. Since his service as first chief medical officer for CMS, his research interests have been dominated by policy relevant research in health services, public health, geriatrics and palliative medicine.
Dr. Besdine participates as adviser and co-investigator on many projects with multiple PIs in the Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research (PH) and the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine (Medicine) and its Director, Stefan Gravenstein, MD, MPH, in health services and policy related to aging and chronic disease. Major areas are nursing home quality, end of life and hospice care, pharmaco-epidemiology, and community-based care. His own research includes nursing home quality of care and its improvement and international collaborations on quality of care for elderly patients. He has also been PI on two applications for an Alzheimer's Disease Core Center (National Institutes of Health).
Harvard Medical School
1979-1981 Principal Investigator, Administration on Aging (DHHS) Geriatric Fellowship Grant ($179,000)
1979-1985 Principal Investigator, Kaiser Family Foundation Geriatric Fellowship Grant
1983-1986 Principal Investigator, Sandoz Foundation Geriatric Fellowship Grant ($50,000)
1983-1986 Director and Principal Investigator, Hartford Foundation Geriatric Faculty Development Grant ($190,000)
1983-1986 Principal Investigator, Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS) Geriatric Education Center Grant ($580,000)
University of Connecticut Health Center School of Medicine
1986-1989 - Director and Principal Investigator, Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS) Geriatric Education Center Grant ($650,000)
1987-1989 - Co-Sponsor with Lawrence Raisz, M.D., Brookdale National Fellowship Award to Carol Pilbeam, M.D., Ph.D. ($105,000)
1988-1994 - Principal Investigator, John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Faculty Recruitment Award ($485,000)
1988-1990 - Principal Investigator, Charles A. Dana Foundation Geriatric Research and Research Training Award ($200,000)
1988-1997 - Principal Investigator, Bureau of Health Professions (DHHS), Geriatric Medicine and Geriatric Dentistry Fellowship Training Grant ($1,350,000)
1989-1990 - Co-Sponsor with Lawrence Raisz, M.D., Brookdale National Fellowship Award to Carol Pilbeam, MD, PhD ($60,000)
1989-1991 - Co-Sponsor with Lawrence Raisz. M.D., Pfizer/American Geriatrics Society Postdoctoral Fellowship Award to James Judge, M.D. ($60,000)
1989-1991 - Principal Investigator, University of Connecticut Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic and Research Center Award, CT State Department on Aging ($194,000)
1989-1991 - Director and Principal Investigator, Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS), Geriatric Education Center Award ($439,000)
1990-2000 - Director, Travelers Research Institute on Health Promotion and Aging (TRIHPA [$1 million endowment])
- Principal Investigator, Alzheimer's disease Outreach Project, Howard and Bush Foundation ($150,000)
1991 Principal Investigator, Health Promotion Research Award, Travelers Foundation ($25,000)
1991 - Principal Investigator, Financing Long Term Care, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($131,000)
1992 - Principal Investigator, Health Promotion Research Seed Grant, Travelers Foundation ($25,000)
1993 - Principal Investigator, Financing Long Term Care, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($104,000)
1993-6 - Co-Sponsor with Lawrence Raisz, M.D., Brookdale National Fellowship Award to Karen Prestwood, MD ($201,750)
1994 - Principal Investigator, Travelers Research Institute on Health Promotion and Aging Pilot Grants Award ($50,000), Travelers Foundation
- Principal Investigator, Financing Long Term Care, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($113,000)
1995-8 - Principal Investigator, Geriatrics in Generalist Residency Training, John A. Hartford Foundation (3 years, $500,000)
1996-8 - Co-Sponsor with Lawrence Raisz, M.D., Brookdale National Fellowship Award to Anne Kenny, MD ($127,500)
1996-9 - Co-Sponsor with Lawrence Raisz, M.D., Beeson Scholar Award to Karen Prestwood, M.D. ($450,000)
1996-2001 - Principal Investigator, Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, National Institute on Aging (5 years, $1.15 million total year 1)
1997-9 - Co-Sponsor with Karen Prestwood, M.D., Pfizer/American Geriatrics Society Postdoctoral Fellowship Award to Sandra Bellantonio, M.D. ($80,000)
1998-01 - Co-Mentor with Lawrence Raisz, M.D., Beeson Scholar Award to Anne Kenny, M.D. ($450,000)
1998-00 - Co-Sponsor with Karen Prestwood, M.D., John A. Hartford Foundation Research Fellowship Award to Rohini Winston, M.D. ($50,000)
1998-00 - Senior Advisor for HCFA contract award of Healthy Aging Project; PI, L. Rubenstein, MD; grantee, RAND ($3.4 million)
Alpert Medical School
2000-03 - Senior Advisor for HCFA contract award of Healthy Aging Project; PI, L. Rubenstein, MD; grantee, RAND ($3.4 million)
2003-5 - Co-investigator, NIH R03, Thyroid hormone effects on cognition, Jeff Tremont PI
2003 - PI, Reynolds Foundation Comprehensive Programs to Strengthen Physicians' Training in Geriatrics application; reverse site visit, not funded
2004-7 - Co-director, NIH T32 Post-doctoral training grant in dementia research
2004 - PI, NIH Alzheimer's Disease Core Center application ($5M), approved but not funded
2005 - PI, NIH Alzheimer's Disease Core Center application ($6M), approved but not funded
2006-11 - PI, Reynolds Foundation Comprehensive Programs to Strengthen Physicians' Training in Geriatrics ($2M), 7/06-6/11 (BSPH)
2007-12 *- Co-investigator, Project 3, "Nursing Home Physicians Missing in Action; in Mor (PI), "Shaping Long Term Care in America", National Institute on Aging, 1P01AG027296-01A1, ($10,000,000; 2007-2012).
2008-13 *- PI, John A. Hartford Foundation Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training ($450,000), 7/08-6/11, renewed 2011 ($60,000), 2012 ($120,000)
2009-10 - PI, Schwartz Center, Schwartz Communication Curriculum for Medical Students ($25,000, BSPH)
2010-11 - PI, Schwartz Center, Schwartz Communication Curriculum for Medical Students ($25,000, BSPH) 2008-13 - PI, John A. Hartford Foundation Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training ($450,000), 7/08-6/11, renewed 2011 ($60,000), renewed 2012 ($120,000), renewed 2013-16 ($282,000)
Brown School of Public Health
2013-17 - PI, Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Next Steps II (Geriatrics Education for Medical Specialists) ($1 million, BSPH) 2014-15 - Co-PI (Gans, PI), Tufts Health Plan Foundation, Healthy Aging Communities: ($149,995.67, BSPH) 2015-6 - PI, John A. Hartford Foundation investigator-initiated award ($400,000) “Dissemination and Marketing of Geriatrics-Orthopedics Hip Fracture Co-management” Phase 1 2017-20 -Medical Director (AGS Grantee), John A. Hartford Foundation award ($1.4 M) “Dissemination and Marketing of Geriatrics-Orthopedics Hip Fracture Co-management” Phase 2
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | MD | University of Pennsylvania |
| 1961 | BS | Haverford College |
| Research Fellow | Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Boston Children's Hospital; Brigham and Women's Hospital, medicine | 1969-1972 | |
| Assistant Resident | Beth Israel Hospital, internal medicine | 1966-1967 | Boston, MA |
| Intern | Beth Israel Hospital, medicine | 1965-1966 | Boston, MA |
1961 - B.S. Cum Laude, Haverford College
1965 - Levinson Prize for Cancer Research, U PA School of Medicine
1980 - Fellow, Gerontological Society of America
1984 - Innovation of the Year, American Association of Homes for the Aged, for development of the Harvard Geriatric Fellowship Program
1989 - Fellow, American Geriatrics Society
1991 - Milo D. Leavitt Award (Eminence in Geriatric Education), American Geriatrics Society
1992 - Fellow, American College of Physicians
1992- - *The Best Doctors in America, Internal Medicine (Geriatrics, all editions through 2014)
1995 - Joseph Freeman Award (Geriatrician of the Year), Gerontological Society of America
1997 - President's Award, American Society on Aging
1998 - Joan Quinn Leadership Award, Connecticut Community Care, Inc.
2002- - Top Doctors in Rhode Island, Rhode Island Monthly (Geriatrics) every year through 2014
2005 - WW Keen Award, Alpert Medical School Alumni Association, 2005
- Faculty Award, Alpert Medical School Class of 2005
2011 - Morgagni Lecturer, Morgagni Medal (250th Anniversary Celebration of 1761 publication of "De Sedibus et Causis Morborum per Anatomen Indagatis"), University of Padua School of Medicine
2012 - Milton Hamolsky Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the field of Internal Medicine 2016 - Beckwith Family Award for Outstanding Teaching, Department of Medicine, Alpert Medical School
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Heffernan, Daithi | Associate Professor of Surgery |
| Mcnicoll, Lynn | Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator |
| Miller, Susan | Professor Emerita of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Mor, Vincent | Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Mujahid, Nadia | Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator |
| Nanda, Aman | Professor of Medicine |
| Swaminathan, Shailender | Adjunct Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Teno, Joan | Adjunct Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Trivedi, Amal | Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Professor of Medicine |
| Wetle, Terrie | Professor Emerita of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Wilson, Ira | Associate Provost for Academic Space, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Professor of Medicine |
American Federation for Aging Research (Board, Medical Officer)
Rhode Island Quality Institute (Board, emeritus)
Fellow, Gerontological Society of America
Association of Academic Geriatric Medicine Programs (Board, Sec./Treas.)
Fellow, American College of Physicians
Fellow, American Geriatrics Society
Neighborhood Health Plan Rhode Island (Board)
| Certification | American Board of Internal Medicine | 2008- | #36070 |
| Medical License | Rhode Island | 2000-Present | #10443 |
| Certification | American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious disease | 1978- | #36070 |
| Certification | American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal medicine | 1978- | #36070 |
| Attending Medical Staff. Providence VA Medical Center, 2001-Present |
| Attending Medical Staff. Rhode Island Hospital & The Miriam Hospital, 2000-Present |
| Consulting Medical Staff. VA Connecticut, 1989-2000 |
| Consulting Medical Staff. Institute of Living, 1989-2000 |
| Attending Medical Staff. McLean Home and Village, 1987-2000 |
| Attending Medical Staff. Hebrew Home and Hospital, 1987-2000 |
| Attending Medical Staff. John Dempsey Hospital, 1986-2000 |
| Associate Physician in Medicine. Brigham and Women's & Beth Israel Hospitals, 1982-1990 |
| Director of Geriatric Medical Education. Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, 1981-1986 |
| Assistant Physician in Medicine. Beth Israel Hospital, 1975-1982 |
| Associate in Medicine. Beth Israel Hospital, 1973-1975 |
| Staff Internist. Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, 1972-1986 |
| Assistant in Medicine. Beth Israel Hospital, 1972-1973 |
Teaching Experience
Harvard Medical School
1972-1980 Attending Physician, Infectious Disease Consultation Service, Beth Israel Hospital
1972-1986 Attending Physician, Medical Service, Beth Israel Hospital
1972-1986 Attending Physician, Didactic and Clinical Sessions, Introduction to Clinical Medicine; Beth Israel Hospital and Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged
1972-1980 Lectures on pneumococcal infections and pneumonia for Infectious Disease Fellows; Beth Israel Hospital and Children's Hospital Infectious Disease Fellowship Training Program
1972-1980 Lectures on pneumococcal infections and pneumonia, Infectious Disease Course for 4th Year Students
1977-1986 Course Developer and Director, Clinical Geriatric Medicine (501M.1)
1978-1986 Attending Physician, Beth Israel Hospital; Didactic sessions in Geriatrics for core clerkship in Medicine, Course developer
1979-1986 Organized seminars in Geriatrics for 1st year students, Course developer
1980-1986 Attending Physician, Program Director and Developer, Beth Israel Hospital Geriatric Interdisciplinary Consultation Service; mandatory geriatrics experiences for all internal medicine residents
1983-1986 Attending Physician, Program Director and Developer, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged and Beth Israel Hospital; Geriatric Rotation for all medical residents from Cambridge Hospital
1985-1986 Attending Physician, Geriatric Assessment Unit, West Roxbury VA Medical
Center, Boston, MA
University of Connecticut Health Center
1986- - Attending Medical Staff, Department of Medicine, John Dempsey Hospital
1986- - Lecturer, School of Medicine: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Medicine, Epidemiology, three year-1 and year-2 electives; School of Dental Medicine: The Special Needs Patient (Entire class)
- Primary Care Clerkship seminars
1987- - Attending Geriatrician and Program Developer, Interdisciplinary Geriatric Consult Service, John Dempsey Hospital
1989- - Attending Physician and Curriculum Developer, Mandatory Geriatric Rotations for Internal Medicine Residency Programs, Newington DVAMC
1991 - Attending Physician and Program Developer, In-patient Geriatrics Service, John Dempsey Hospital
1992 - Program Developer, Ambulatory Geriatrics Practice, John Dempsey Hospital
- Program Developer, Medical and Dental Student Geriatrics Interest Group
1993 - Chair, Long Range Planning Committee, Department of Medicine, Graduate Medical Education
- Program Developer, 3rd year medical student ambulatory geriatrics block
1994 - Curriculum Developer, Mandatory Geriatrics block for all Internal Medicine Interns
- Curriculum Revision Committee (Clinical)
- Curriculum Developer, Year 2 Human Development and Health, Block on Aging
Alpert Medical School
2000- *- Attending Geriatrician, RI and The Miriam geriatrics service
*- Faculty, mandatory resident Geriatrics block, Internal Medicine program, Lifespan (RI and The Miriam Hospitals)
2000- - Advisor, Medical Student Geriatrics Interest Group
2001-6 - Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, Alpert Medical School
2001- - Developer and Preceptor, Mandatory Geriatrics block for IM Interns
2003- - Lectures to 1st year medical students in Physiology (on aging)
2005- - Teaching attending, IM residency
2006- - Working Group on Content and Organization, years 1 & 2 (one of four senior faculty), Medical School Curriculum Redesign
*- Working Group on Scholarly Concentration, years 1 & 2, Med School Curriculum Redesign
2006-10 - PI, Donald W. Reynolds project to add adequate aging-related content to all Medical School Courses and to major residency programs
2009-11 - PI, Schwartz Center project to strengthen communication skills for 1st and 2nd year medical students
*- Working Group on Core Competencies and the Clinical Knowledge Base, years 3 & 4, Medical School Curriculum Redesign
2013-17 - PI, Donald W Reynolds Foundation project to educate specialists and subspecialists geriatrics care across the Brown academic medical center
