Academic Appointment(s):
- Assistant Professor
Division Title(s):
- Full-time faculty member
Research Interests:
- Energy metabolism, mobility disability and frailty
- Compensatory strategies for mobility, especially simple assistive technology
- Epidemiology of multimorbidity
Clinical Interests:
- Care of older adults with more than one chronic illness
Selected publications:
- Boyd CM, Weiss CO, Halter J, Han KC, Ershler WB, Fried LP. Understanding Disease Severity in Older Adults with Comorbidity. Journals of Gerontology:Medical Sciences. 62A(3):286-295.
- Weiss CO, Fried LP, Bandeen-Roche K. Exploring the Hierarchy of Mobility Performance in High-Functioning Older Women. Journals of Gerontology:Medical Sciences. 62A(2):167-173.
- Weiss CO, Leff B. Ambulatory and Outpatient Care. In Schulze R, Noelker LS, Rockwood K & Sprott RL (eds.) Encyclopedia of Aging. Fourth edition. 2006. Springer, New York.
- Weiss CO, Wollf J, Fried LP. 2005. [Abstract]. Adaptation of walking behavior is a marker for mobility decline across a spectrum of performance. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 53 (s1): S31-S32.
- Weiss CO, Gonzalez HM, Kabeto MU, Langa KM. 2005. Differences in Amount of Informal Care Received by Non-Hispanic White and Latinos in a Nationally Representative Sample of Older Americans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 53(1):146-151.
Education/Training:
- M.D.: University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor
- Internship/Residency: University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor
- Fellowship: Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore
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