Academic Appointment(s)
- Professor
- Joint Appointment, Johns Hopkins Berman Bioethics Institute
Division Title(s):
- Co-Director, Chronic Care Clerskship
Research Interests:
- Medical education
- Tube feeding in dementia
- Palliative care
- Overuse of medications
- Finding the way between overtreatment and undertreatment
Clinical Interests:
- Primary care of older adults with chronic illness
- General Geriatrics
Selected publications:
- Finucane, TE, Carrese JA: Racial bias in presentation of cases. J Gen Intern Med 1990;5:120-1.
- Applebaum GE, King JE, Finucane TE: The outcome of CPR initiated in nursing home. Theory and practice. J Am Geriatr Soc 1989; 37:684-8
- Finucane TE, Bynum JPW: Use of tube feeding to prevent aspiration pneumonia. Lancet 1996;348:1421-4.
- Finucane TE, Christmas C, Travis K: Tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia: a review of the evidence. JAMA 1999;282:1365-70.
- Finucane TE. How gravely ill becomes dying: a key to end of life care. JAMA 1999;282:1670-2.
- Carrese J, Mullaney J, Faden RR, Finucane TE. Planning for death but not the contingencies of serious future illness: A Qualitative Study of Housebound Elderly Patients. BMJ 2002;325:125.
Education/Training:
- M.D.: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
- Internship/Residency: George Washington University, Washington, DC
