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| | Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center |
 | | In September 1989, the University of Michigan established the nation's first Claude D. Pepper Geriatrics Center (U-M Pepper Center) The overall goals of the U-M Pepper Center are to advance research on health care problems of the elderly and to train future academic leaders in Geriatrics. | | | The Director of the Geriatrics Center and Program Director of the U-M Pepper Center is Jeffrey B. Halter, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine and Research Professor in the Institute of Gerontology. | | | Drawing on the large base of research currently underway in the fields of geriatrics and gerontology at the University of Michigan, the U-M Pepper Center fosters collaborative multidisciplinary research to integrate basic science, clinical science, and health services research relevant to the health care problems of older adults. |
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| | Martindale's Public Health Center: Section III - Courses, Cases, Teaching Modules, Videos/Movies, etc. |
| | THE MERCK MANUAL OF GERIATRICS - Editors: M.H. Beers and R. Berkow; Published by Merck & Co., Inc. Multimedia Geriatrics Manuals (Text & Images). | | | GERIATRIC GRAND ROUNDS VIDEOS (REALPLAYER) - Geriatric Education Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Multimedia Geriatrics Grand Rounds (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound). | | | GERIATRICS CASES STUDIES - VirginiaGeriatrics.org, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and McGuire VA Medical Center Multimeida Cases (Text, Images & Simulations). |
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http://www.martindalecenter.com/PHealth_5_C.html
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| | Physicians, New York, Terminally Ill, University Press, American Geriatrics, SuperPages.com: Web Results |
| | Terminally Ill Patients...Inge B. Physicians and Nurses...Nursing Homes." New England Journal...Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 35...Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 35...Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 35...Regulations. | | | See New York State Task...Capacity (New York: New York State Task...Care Agent (New York: New York State Task...But if I am terminally ill of cancer...Journal of ihe American Geriatrics Society 40...Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 41...offense. | | | The New York Public Library...Journal of the American Geriatrics Society...therapy in the terminally ill patient...41-48). |
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| | Medical College of Wisconsin - About our Faculty |
| | She completed her fellowship training in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the University of Michigan and was recruited back to the Medical College of Wisconsin in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in July of 1989. | | | Burns is the Program Director for the Medicine-Geriatrics Combined Residency Program in partnership with the Reynolds Foundation Initiatives in Geriatrics Education. | | | Montagnini completed his fellowship training in Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. |
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http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=2096
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| | President's Scholars Program in Geriatrics |
| | Scholars' appointments allow for one-half of their time to be devoted to expanding their knowledge base in geriatrics, participating in curricular, research or outreach projects involving aging and the elderly, and preparing for expanded responsibilities in geriatrics. | | | A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Dr. Sleeper completed a specialty residency in geriatrics at the Texas Tech School of Pharmacy in Amarillo. | | | Their efforts will enlarge overall faculty capacity and involvement in geriatrics throughout the TTUHSC schools. |
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http://www.ttuhsc.edu/HPPA/Aging/pgs.html
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| | Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. |
| | Domenico Maugeri, Mariano Malaguarnera, Pietra Panebianco, Patrizia Barbagallo, Maria Pia Curasi', Maria Rita Bonanno, Salvatore Speciale, Antonino Santangelo, Mario Salvatore Russo, Assessment of cognitive and affective disorders in an elderly population undergoing hemodialysis, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 29 (3) (2000) pp. | | | Bonanno, Parathyroid hormone in a population of elderly patients on hemodialysis (preliminary data), Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 1996 (0) (1996) pp. | | | Roberto Giansanti, Rosa Anna Rabini, Fabio Romagnoli, Daniele Fumelli, Pierluigi Sorichetti, Massimo Boemi, Paolo Fumelli, Coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease risk factors: a study on a middle-aged and elderly population, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 29 (2) (1999) pp. |
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http://www.elsevier.com/cdweb/journals/01674943/viewer.htt?viewtype=authors&rangeselected=11
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| | AMERICAN BOARD OF GERIATRICS |
| | The American Board of Geriatrics is a Registered Public Benefit Not-For-Profit Medical Organization that is Officially Registered as a Not For Profit Corporation to Certify and to Encourage Medical Excellence in Geriatrics, Medical Practice, Education, Research, and Contribution to Society by Outstanding Medical Doctors, and Encouragememt of Medical Education and Expertise in Geriatrics. | | | The American Board of Geriatrics is a private and independent not for profit medical organization incorporated in the State of Wyoming. | | | We are not related in any way to the American Board of Internal Medicine or any other medical board and have no relationship of any kind with any other medical board, medical organization, medical society, medical association, or umbrella organization. |
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http://www.geriatricsboard.org
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| | AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GERIATRICS SPECIALISTS |
| | The American College of Geriatrics Specialists is a Registered Public Benefit Not-For-Profit Medical Organization that is Officially Registered as a Not For Profit Corporation to Certify and to Encourage Medical Excellence in Geriatrics, Medical Practice, Education, Research, and Contribution to Society by Outstanding Medical Doctors, and Encouragememt of Medical Education and Expertise in Geriatrics. | | | The American College of Geriatrics Specialists is a private and independent not for profit medical organization incorporated in the State of Wyoming. | | | We are not related in any way to the American Board of Internal Medicine or any other medical board and have no relationship of any kind with any other medical board, medical organization, medical society, medical association, or umbrella organization. |
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http://www.collegeofgeriatrics.org
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| | Geriatric Rounds: Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics |
| | One of the major goals over the next 10 years for the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics at UAMS is to build and expand cardiovascular research, and to recruit and train basic and clinical investigators in geriatrics and cardiovascular disease. | | | To learn more about gender-based differences in the heart, Dr. Kennedy’s team joined forces with gerontological scientists at the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics at UAMS, including Jeanne Y. Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Charlotte Peterson, Ph.D., and Esther Dupont-Versteegden, Ph.D., all of whom are studying the effects of aging on the heart and skeletal muscle. | | | Jeanne Y. Wei, M.D., Ph.D. is the Executive Vice Chair of the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. |
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http://www.geriatrics.uams.edu/publications/rounds/summer03.asp
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| | ACP-ASIM Pressroom - Leadership - William J. Hall, MD, FACP |
| | Hall is chief of the general medicine/geriatrics unit and director of the division of geriatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Strong Memorial Hospital, in Rochester, N.Y. Hall is a former ACP Governor for the Upstate New York Region. | | | Hall is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and a past member of their ethics committee. | | | Hall is board-certified in internal medicine and pulmonary disease and has earned advanced achievement in internal medicine and added qualifications in geriatric medicine. |
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http://www.acponline.org/college/pressroom/president.htm
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| | Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. |
| | Fraticelli, C. Gambini, E. Iannoni, E. Paciaroni, Impending paradoxical embolism through a patent foramen ovale in an octogenarian with pulmonary embolism: detection by transesophageal echocardiography and successful treatment by anticoagulation, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 27 (1) (1998) pp. | | | Fraticelli, R. Gesuita, A. Vespa, E. Paciaroni, Congestive heart failure in the elderly requiring hospital admission, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 23 (3) (1996) pp. | | | Saccomanno, A. Fraticelli, M. Marini, L. Spazzafumo, E. Paciaroni, Permanent ventricular and dual chamber cardiac stimulation: role of pacing mode in relation to chronic atrial fibrillation risk and stroke development, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 29 (1) (1999) pp. |
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http://www.elsevier.com/cdweb/journals/01674943/viewer.htt?viewtype=authors&rangeselected=83
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| | Research Forum Poster Session Presentations at the 2005 AAP Annual Meeting |
| | Rodrigo F. Neiva,* University of Michigan, School of Dentistry; Yi-Pin Tsao, University of Michigan, School of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics/Prevention/Geriatrics; Robert Eber, University of Michigan, School of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics/Prevention/Geriatrics; Hom-Lay Wang, University of Michigan, School of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics/Prevention/Geriatrics | | | Katalin Károlyházy,* Semmelweis University Faculty of Dentistry, Dept. of Prosth.; Peter Faluhelyi, Semmelweis University Faculty of Dentistry, Dept. of Prosth.; Peter Kivovics, Semmelweis University Faculty of Dentistry, Dept. of Prosth.; Pál Fejérdy, Semmelweis University Faculty of Dentistry, Dept. of Prosth.; Zsuzsanna Arányi, Semmelweis University Faculty of Medicine, Dept.of Neur | | | Derek Haber,* D.D.S., University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine; Alan M. Polson, University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine; Emmanuel M. Symeonides, University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine; Dennis A. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine; Anne P. Polson, University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine |
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http://www.perio.org/meetings/am/forum-poster-abstracts.htm
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| | Medical College of Wisconsin - About our Faculty |
| | Burns is the Program Director for the Medicine-Geriatrics Combined Residency Program in partnership with the Reynolds Foundation Initiatives in Geriatrics Education. | | | Burns completed her fellowship training in Geriatrics and Immunology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. | | | Burns is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School where she completed her medicine residency as well. |
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http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=2096
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| | Dr. Stall's Web Page - Geriatrics for Patients, Caregivers and Health Care Professionals. Other Keywords: Advance Directives, Ageism, Aging, Caregivers, Caregiving, Elderly, Ethical Principles, Functional Assessment Tools, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Long Te |
| | Other Keywords: Advance Directives, Ageism, Aging, Caregivers, Caregiving, Elderly, Ethical Principles, Functional Assessment Tools, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Long Te Geriatrics for Patients, Caregivers and Health Care Professionals accessed | | | Stall's Web Page - Geriatrics for Patients, Caregivers and Health Care Professionals. |
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| | Atlantic Philanthropies - Grant Statistics - Grant Approvals List by Location: 2002 |
| | Purpose: To provide support for training and career development of a new cadre of junior faculty leaders with in-depth expertise in geriatrics, to embed gerontology and geriatrics in all the medical subspecialties. | | | Purpose: To provide support, in partnership with the John A. Hartford Foundation, for the Jahnigen Career Development Awards, which will create a cadre of faculty leaders in the surgical and related medical specialties who will be trained in geriatrics. | | | Purpose: To support the 'Diversity Within Unity' project which seeks to foster a dialogue between key international policy leaders and academics on how minority groups can become socially accepted and incorporated into a nation's identity. |
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http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/giving_statistics/grants_by_region.asp
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| | The Merck Manual of Geriatrics |
| | The Merck Manual of Geriatrics is a complete and current reference work designed to provide information of clinical relevance to all those involved in the care of elderly patients. | | | The Merck Manual of Geriatrics TextStack expands this collection to include vital information in geriatric medicine and care. | | | This complete electronic version of The Merck Manual for Geriatrics includes all 1,450 pages of text plus all the figures, tables, and diagrams from the printed book. |
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| | HealthGate: Medical Review Board |
| | She graduated with honors from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is currently Director of the Geriatrics Consultation and Liaison Service and Assistant Professor in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. | | | Reena Karani, MD is board certified in internal medicine and board eligible in geriatrics. | | | Dr. Rask is a clinically active general internist who received her medical training at the University of Pennsylvania and her doctorate in health economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. |
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http://www.healthgate.com/process/medicalreviewboard.aspx
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| | Geriatric Care Management in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, assessment, care planning, monitoring, and eldercare |
| | In addition to being the principal of Diamond Geriatrics, I am also a professional, with twenty five years of training, knowledge, and skills in the fields of geriatrics, aging, dementia, seniors housing, nursing homes, and family systems. | | | I founded Diamond Geriatrics so you could have a choice about whether those things happened to you. | | | I have seen how the system fails people and how a lack of knowledge about the system and aging can lead them to places where no one should have to go. |
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| | The American Geriatrics Society - News - 2004 Meeting - Nascher/Manning Award |
| | The intent of this award is to honor Dr. Nacsher's pioneering work in the field of geriatrics, by recognizing an individual with distinguished, life-long achievement in clinical geriatrics, including medicine, psychiatry, and all other relevant disciplines. | | | Ignatz Leo Nacher, MD (1863-1944) argued that the disease and medical care of the aged should be considered a separate specialty, for which he coined the term "geriatrics" in 1909. | | | Nominations should consist of a letter of nomination, with at least one additional letter of support from colleagues, and the nominee's curriculum vitae. |
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http://www.americangeriatrics.org/news/meeting/am2004_naschMannAward.shtml
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| | Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. |
| | Woo, S.S.C. Ho, K.Y. Yiu, S.S.G. Chan, A.L.M. Yu, J. Lau, Prevalence and effectiveness of treatment of hypertension on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in an elderly population aged 70 years and over, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 25 (2) (1997) pp. | | | Hiroshi Ishii, Kenichi Meguro, Junichi Ishizaki, Masumi Shimada, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Iwao Sano, Hideo Ambo, Hiroya Ohtake, Yoichi Shimada, Kyoko Someya, Mari Sato, Yuka Shibuya, Masami Kato, Yasuyoshi Sekita, Atsushi Yamadori, Prevalence of senile dementia in a rural community in Japan: the Tajiri project, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 29 (3) (2000) pp. | | | Kenichi Meguro, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Masumi Shimada, Masatoshi Itoh, Atsushi Yamadori, Striatal dopaminergic transmission and neocortical glucose utilization in Alzheimer's disease: a triple-tracer positron emission tomography study, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 31 (2) (2000) pp. |
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| | (WO 2004/111250) RECOMBINANT ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS VECTOR FOR TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER DISEASE |
| | HARA, Hideo [JP/JP]; c/o National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, 36-3, Gengo, Morioka-cho, Obu-shi, Aichi, 4748511 (JP). | | | TABIRA, Takeshi [JP/JP]; c/o National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, 36-3, Gengo, Morioka-cho, Obu-shi, Aichi, 4748511 (JP). | | | 国立長寿医療センター総長が代表する日本国 (JAPAN AS REPRESENTED BY PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY) [JP/JP]; 〒4748511 愛知県大府市森岡町源吾３６の３ Aichi (JP). |
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| | Watts |
| | In addition to continuing medical education activities, I have collaborated with other Geriatrics Section members in teaching courses to UW-Madison students and have taught medical students and residents on the inpatient service and junior and senior residents at the Geriatrics Clinic. | | | I also serve as one of the attending physicians on the UW Hospitals and Clinics Geriatrics Inpatient Unit. | | | The WGEC facilitated the Wisconsin Board Review Course in Geriatric Medicine, which I have co-directed in five of the last six years. |
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| | The American Geriatrics Society - Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act |
| | Section 712 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 clarifies that Congress intended to provide an exception to the initial residency period for geriatric fellowship programs to accommodate programs that provide 2 years of training for geriatricians who intend to teach geriatrics. | | | Congress included the geriatrics FTE change in the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act, which has now been passed into law. | | | However, changes to CAQ requirements in 1998 requiring only 1 year of training for geriatrics' certification resulted in the interpretation by some programs that only 1 year is reimbursable under Medicare graduate medical education. |
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http://www.americangeriatrics.org/staging/policy/gca_medEd_prov.shtml
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| | National geriatric dissemination centre |
| | NFG has established a geriatric network by registering professionals and institutions within the discipline of geriatrics and the care of elderly in in public health services. | | | NFG is also producing multidisciplinary bibliographies focusing on different subjects within the field of geriatrics. | | | This also enables us to receive information from all professional staff working in the field of geriatrics and gerontology. |
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| | Bulletin Focus August 13, 1999 |
| | Brigham and Women's ranked number 39 in cancer, 4 in cardiology, 6 in endocrinology, 10 in gastroenterology, 15 in geriatrics, 4 in gynecology, 13 in neurology, 9 in orthopedics, 49 in otolaryngology, 7 in pulmonary disease, 4 in rheumatology, and 25 in urology. | | | MGH ranked number 18 in cancer, 3 in cardiology, 2 in endocrinology, 4 in gastroenterology, 5 in geriatrics, 6 in gynecology, 2 in neurology, 4 in ophthalmology, and 3 in orthopedics. | | | Beth Israel Deaconess ranked number 17 in cardiology, 12 in endocrinology, 19 in gastroenterology, 8 in geriatrics, 39 in gynecology, 44 in neurology, 50 in otolaryngology, 24 in pulmonary disease, and 24 in urology. |
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| | University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center - Selected HCPR Publications |
| | Kramer A, Kowalsky J, Lin M, Grigsby J, Hughes R, Steiner J. "Outcome and Utilization Differences for Older Persons with Stroke in HMO and Fee-for-Service Systems." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 48(7):726-734, 2000. | | | Johnson M, Kramer A, Lin M, Kowalsky J, Steiner J. "Outcomes of Older Persons Receiving Rehabilitation for Medical and Surgical Conditions Compared with Hip Fracture and Stroke." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 48(11);1389-1397, 2000. | | | Coleman E, Kramer A, Kowalsky J, Eckhoff D, Lin M, Hester E, Morgenstern N, Steiner J. "Outcomes and Utilization for Acute Hip Fracture in Managed Care and Fee-For-Service Settings." Effective Clinical Practice 3(5):229-239, 2000. |
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| | Books by Bruce Potter |
| | The fourth edition of Geriatrics at Your Fingertips is a portable, practical and economical tool for professionals who provide primary care to older persons. | | | The fifth edition of Geriatrics at Your Fingertips is a portable, practical and economical tool for professionals who provide primary care to older persons. | | | In Rustic Cubism, Bruce Adams tells the fascinating story of Moly-Sabata, an art colony founded in the Rhône Valley during the height of French modernism by Cubist pioneer Albert Gleizes. |
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| | Member Biographies - National Advisory Council on Aging |
| | Michael Gordon is Head of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Head of the Division of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. | | | Gordon was appointed to NACA in August 1998 for a two-year term and was subsequently reapppointed on August 26, 2000 for a two-year term and on August 26, 2002 for a three-year term. | | | He is a regular contributor and commentator for various TV programmes and radio shows on seniors issues. |
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| | Mary K. Goldstein MD |
| | She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Geriatrics Society, and is active in clinical teaching at VA Palo Alto where she is closely affiliated with the Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC). | | | Goldstein's mentor is Alan M. Garber, MD, PhD, a nationally recognized leader in cost-effectiveness analysis and primary care outcomes research. | | | Goldstein's other major focus is implementation of clinical practice guidelines for hypertension. |
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