A team of Department of Medicine gastroenterologists recently received two awards from the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), which they will present at the ACG’s annual meeting in Las Vegas in October. The papers are:…
Madeleine Hackney, PhD’s DREAMS (Developing a Research Participation Enhancement and Advocacy Training Program for Diverse Seniors) project grew out of an ongoing problem in clinical research. Older adults with low socioeconomic status and/or from racial or ethnic minority…
The Emory Section of Geriatrics and Gerontology is excited to introduce new faculty members. Meet the newest members of our team: Sivan Ben-Moshe, MD is an assistant professor of medicine (Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics). She practices…
The Department of Medicine’s Clinical Excellence Community is offering a series of mini-workshops aimed at improving clinical examination skills of faculty and the teaching of those clinical skills to trainees. Registration is required, and space…
Kara Loren Raphael, MD is making waves in the health care world. A third-year resident in the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program, Dr. Raphael has already published two articles (click here to see…
For Dr. Ted Johnson, “frailty” is not just aging, but function. Frailty is not a new concept – Dr. Linda Fried, then at Johns Hopkins, published seminal work on frailty studies 15 years ago. Frailty is…
Congratulations to Patricia Griffiths, PhD and Kenneth Hepburn, PhD who have been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health to test Tele-Savvy, an on-line psychoeducational program for informal Alzheimer’s caregivers. This trial, built on…
The Emory Kidney MAPS team recently participated in a free clinic sponsored by the Ray of Hope Church of Decatur, GA in Edison, GA. The Emory Nephrology team staffed the internal medicine rooms with other doctors…
In September of 2015, the 10-bed Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) service opened at Grady Memorial Hospital. Under the direction of geriatrician Ugochi Ohuabunwa, MD, a care team of nursing, pharmacy, nutrition, rehabilitation, community health…
Gretchen Snoeyenbos Newman, MD is a third-year resident in Emory’s J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program. Gretchen is originally from a small town in southeastern Massachusetts. In fact, the town is so small, it didn’t get its…