Academic Appointment(s)
- Assistant Professor
Division Title(s)
- Medical Director, Hip Fracture and Geriatric Consultation Service
Research Interests:
- Geriatrics curriculum development and evaluation for medical students
- Models of care delivery
- Hip fracture outcomes in the elderly
- Tube feeding in dementia
Clinical Interests:
- Primary care of older adults with chronic illness
- General Geriatrics
Selected publications:
- Christmas C. Medical Care of the Hip Fracture Patient. Clin Geriatr 2006;14(4):40-46.
- Christmas C, Makary MA, Burton JR. Medical considerations in older surgical patients. J Am Coll Surg. 2006;203(5):746-751.
- Finucane TE, Christmas C, Leff BA. Tube feeding in dementia: How incentives undermine health care quality and patient safety. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2007 May;8(4):205-8.
- Chang JC, Finucane TE, Christmas C, Vaughan W, Schwartz J, Leff B. Nutrition and involuntary weight loss: A pilot study of an educations intervention for nursing home surveyors. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2007 Feb;8(2):110-4
- Park EM, Christmas C, Schmaltz H, Durso SC. The perceived change of diverse clinician-educators through an intensive course on teaching geriatrics. Int J Self Directed Learning 2006;3(1):36-51.
- Park EM, Christmas C, Durso SC. Geriatric Learning Questionnaire for Clinician- Educators. MedEdPORTAL. www.aamc.org/meded/mededportal/author.htm#logo.
Education/Training:
- M.D. :University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT
- Internship: Medical College of Virginia Richmond, VA, Internal Medicine
- Residency: Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, Internal Medicine
- Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, Geriatric Medicine
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