Geriatric Medicine Labs

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Alicia Arbaje Lab

Research in the Alicia Arbaje Lab aims to help older adults maintain dignity and quality of life as they age. We are particularly interested in creating health care systems to improve safety and outcomes for older adults.

Research Areas: safety, gerontology, health care systems

Principal Investigator

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

Department

Medicine
Ariel Green Lab

Research in the Ariel Green Lab focuses on informing and improving decisions surrounding the use of invasive medical technologies for older adults with complex medical diseases. Our long-term goals are to conduct epidemiologic research, create public health initiatives, and help shape policies that improve the lives of older adults.

Research Areas: epidemiology, health care policy, decision making, gerontology

Principal Investigator

Ariel R. Green, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.

Department

Medicine
Bruce Leff Lab

Research interests in the Bruce Leff Lab include home hospital, guided care, medical education and long-term care.

Research Areas: medical education, gerontology, home hospital

Principal Investigator

Bruce Leff, M.D.

Department

Medicine
Center on Aging and Health

The Center on Aging and Health pursues creative approaches to solve the important health and health care problems for an aging population. Research in our center involves population-based and clinical studies of the causes, correlates, and consequences of aging-related conditions, including frailty, disability, and social isolation. We house four distinct research working groups: the Frailty and Multisystem Dysregulation Working Group; the Family and Social Resources Working Group; the Cognitive and Sensory Functions Working Group; and the Biostatistics, Design and Analysis Working Group. We provide key infrastructure, such as the statistical data core, that supports clinical- and population-based research and education with expertise in research with older adults.

Research Areas: cognition, disabilities, behavioral research, stroke, frailty, biostatistics, dementia, gerontology

Lab Website

Principal Investigator

David Roth, Ph.D., M.A.

Department

Medicine
Colleen Christmas Lab

The Colleen Christmas Lab studies geriatric medicine, with a focus on geriatric education, interventions to reduce inappropriate nursing home citations by state surveyors, nutrition and fall prevention for geriatric patients, and perioperative geriatric care.

Research Areas: medical education, nutrition, perioperative geriatric care, fall prevention, gerontology

Principal Investigator

Colleen Christmas, M.D.

Department

Medicine
Cynthia Boyd Lab

Research in the Cynthia Boyd Lab concentrates on the clinical care of comorbid chronically ill and frail older adults, both chronically and during acute illnesses. Current projects focus on the treatment burden among older adults with multimorbidity, the importance of competing risks in decision-making for the elderly, the effects of guided care on the quality of care and the improvement of clinical practice guidelines for the elderly.

Research Areas: quality of life, comorbidity, frailty, gerontology

Principal Investigator

Cynthia Boyd, M.D., M.P.H.

Department

Medicine
Danelle O. Cayea Lab

Researchers in the Danelle O. Cayea Lab develop and evaluate curriculum that teaches the care of older adults to residents and medical students. Our work includes older adults with complex heath issues who receive care in hospital and ambulatory environments.

Research Areas: medical education, gerontology

Principal Investigator

Danelle Cayea, M.D., M.S.

Department

Medicine
Esther Oh Lab

The Esther Oh Lab is interested in developing biological markers for pre-clinical stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Our current research involves using transgenic models of AD to develop peripheral injections of monoclonal antibodies against amyloid-beta as a tool to detect a level of amyloid-beta that would be correlative to the amyloid-beta level in the brain.

Research Areas: amyloid-beta, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, monoclonal antibodies

Principal Investigator

Esther Oh, M.D., Ph.D.

Department

Medicine
Jennifer Hayashi Lab

Research in the Jennifer Hayashi Lab is focused on educational research related to teaching home care for doctors and interdisciplinary teams. Recently, we created a four-step process preparing a residency program for an anticipated short-term weather emergency.

Research Areas: medical education, gerontology, in-home care

Principal Investigator

Jennifer Hayashi

Department

Medicine
Jeremy Barron Lab

Research in the Jeremy Barron Lab focuses on geriatric medicine. We’re particularly interested in the health benefits of productive aging—for example, engaging in activities such as volunteering—and occupational geriatrics.

Research Areas: occupational geriatrics, aging, gerontology

Principal Investigator

Jeremy Barron

Department

Medicine