Alicia Arbaje, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Associate Director
Transitional Care Research,
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

An internist and geriatric medicine specialist, Dr. Arbaje is an expert in the problems older adults face as they navigate through the health care system. She is leading several studies that aim to improve their quality of care, especially after they are discharged from a hospital.

In addition to teaching about health care delivery systems at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Arbaje has been recognized for her work at national meetings of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, American Geriatrics Society, Society for General Internal Medicine, and Gerontological Society of America. She has been invited to share her expertise at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and she regularly appears on health segments at a local television station to draw attention to issues facing older adults.

An assistant professor of medicine and associate director of transitional care research, Dr. Arbaje graduated from Yale School of Medicine and earned her master’s degree in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her internal medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a clinical and research fellowship in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

She will discuss Medicine Cabinet at A Woman's Journey 2009 in Session IV, 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.