Academic Appointment(s)
- Assistant Professor
Division Title(s):
- Full-time faculty member
Research Interests:
- History of Medicine
Clinical Interests:
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
- Geriatric Evaluation and Management
- Transitional Care
Selected publications:
- Boult C, Dowd B, McCaffrey D, Boult L, Hernandez R, Krulewitch H. Screening elders for risk of hospital admission. J Am Geriatr Soc 1993; 41: 811-817.
- Boult C, Kane RL, Louis TA, Boult L, McCaffrey D. Chronic conditions that lead to functional limitation in the elderly. J Gerontol 1994; 49(1): M28-M36.
- Boult C, Boult L, Murphy C, Ebbitt B, Luptak M, Kane RL. A controlled trial of outpatient geriatric evaluation and management. J Am Geriatr Soc 1994; 42: 465- 70.
- Boult L, Boult C, Pirie P, Pacala J. Test-retest reliability of a questionnaire that identifies elders at risk for hospital admission. J Am Geriatr Soc 1994; 42 (7): 707-11.
- Boult L, Boult C. Underuse of physician services by elderly Asian-Americans. J Am Geriatr Soc 1995; 43: 408-11.
- Boult C, Boult L, Morishita L, Smith S, Kane RL. Outpatient geriatric evaluation and management. J Am Geriatr Soc 1998; 46(3): 296-302.
- Boult C, Boult L, Pacala J. Systems of care for older populations of the future. J Am Geriatr Soc 1998: 46(4): 499-505.
- Boult C, Boult L, Morishita L, Dowd B, Kane RL, Urdangarin C. A randomized clinical trial of outpatient geriatric evaluation and management. J Am Geriatr Soc 2001; 49(4): 351-359.
- Boult L, Dentler B, Volicer L, Mead S., Evans J; Ethics Committee of the American Medical Directors Association. Ethics and research in long-term care: a position statement from the American Medical Directors Association. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2003; 4(3): 171-4.
- Evans JM, Boult L., Volicer L, Nichols J, Mead S et al., writing for the Ethics Committee of the American Medical Directors Association. White Paper on surrogate decision making and advance care planning in llong-term care. Statement J03, March 2003, 11pp., http://www.amda.com/library/white.
- Boyd CY, Darer J, Boult C, Fried LP, Boult L, Wu AW. Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performance. JAMA 2005; 294(6):716-24.
- Garment A, Lederer S, Rogers N, Boult L. Let the Dead Teach the Living: The Rise of Body Bequeathal in 20th-Century America. Acad Med. 2007; 82(10):1000-1005.
- Boult C, Green A, Boult LB, Pacala JT, Leff B. Successful Models of Comprehensive Health Care for Multi-Morbid Older Persons: A Review of Effects on Health and Health Care. A Paper Commissioned by the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, for its 2008 Report: “Health Care Workforce for an Aging America”
- Leng SX, Finucane T, Boult L, Zheng L, Greenough WB. Inadvertent self-healing in desperate times. Lancet. 2007; 370(9596): 1458.
Education/Training:
- M.D.: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
- Internship/Residency: Brown University/ Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island
- Fellowship: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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