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Graduates of our fellowship program continue to be leaders in the fields of geriatric medicine and research, and we are home to pioneering research programs in the field of aging.
Welcome to the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. Founded in 1977, we are based at Harborview Medical Center and the Seattle VA Puget Sound Health Care System. We provide comprehensive clinical care and training in the care of older adults throughout the University of Washington network.
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UW Geriatric Medicine in the News . . .
2017
October
Dr. Rashmi Sharma, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is lead author and Dr. Joan Teno, professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is senior author of: “Association of Racial Differences With End-of-Life Care Quality in the United States” in JAMA Internal Medicine. Read more in the article: “End-of-life care study finds deficiencies but no racial bias” in UW Medicine Newsroom.
Dr. May Reed (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is senior author of: "The Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry Template Modifications on the Administration of High-Risk Medications in Older Adults in the Emergency Department” in Drugs & Aging. DOM co-authors are Paul Sutton and Katherine Bennett.
Divisions of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, authored: “An Administrator’s Guide to Departments of Internal Medicine”, Publisher: Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine; 5 edition (Kindle Edition), August 8, 2017July
Dr. David Gruenewald, associate professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is lead author of: “Improving Family Meetings in the ICU: A Quality Improvement Curriculum” in the American Journal of Critical Care. He developed the curriculum in his role as project leader for a national Department of Veterans Affairs initiative, “Improving Palliative Care in Intensive Care Units.”
Dr. Joan Teno, professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is lead author of “Temporal Trends in the Numbers of Skilled Nursing Facility Specialists From 2007 Through 2014” in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Dr. Joe Huang, clinical instructor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is lead author of “Evaluation of Treatment Candidacy in Older Adults With Cancer” in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology.
Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Award
Drs. Stephen Plymate, professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine), Wes Van Voorhis, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases), and Dustin Maly (Chemistry) were awarded a Prostate Cancer Research Idea Development Award by the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program for their project: “Bumped-Kinase Inhibitors as Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer Drugs.”
They will receive $1M over 3 years to develop promising small molecules for the therapy of prostate cancer once it becomes resistant to first line drugs. Drs. Kayode Ojo (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Cynthia Sprenger (Gerontology) are co-investigators.
Gerontology Clinical Promotion:Dr. Lianne (Annie) Hirano, clinical assistant professor in the
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, will become the Associate Medical Director of the Inpatient Palliative Care Service at HMC effective July 1.
2016
December
New Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine CurriculumDr. Susan Merel and Dr. Katherine Bennett launched a
new geriatrics and palliative medicine curriculum for 2nd year medical students at the University of Washington in December 2016 as part of their
Lifecycles Course.
2015
October 2015 New UW Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Division Head
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Wayne McCormick as the new head of the Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine, effective immediately ...read more2014
UW PRAISE Awards:
Dr. Katherine A. Bennett and Dr. May J. Reed have both received the UW PRAISE Awards for Excellence in Patient Care.