Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Awardees

2022 Beeson Scholars

Timothy Anderson, MD, MAS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School: Optimizing prescribing decisions for hospitalized older adults with chronic conditions

Katie Buck, MD, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University: Establishing and Implementing Pneumonia Diagnosis in ED Older Adults: A Mixed Methods Approach

Sevdenur Cizginer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School: Optimizing care for older surgical patients: a theory-guided implementation science approach

Elizabeth Dzeng, PhD, MD, MPH, MPhil, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine and Sociology, University of California, San Francisco: Understanding and addressing structural racism and its impact on the quality of end-of-life care in older Black adults

Miyeon Jung, PhD, RN, FAHA, Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Nursing: Virtual Reality and Computerized Cognitive Intervention for Mild Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure

Sikandar H Khan, DO, MS, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Indiana University School of Medicine: Reactive Oxygen Species in Respiratory Failure, Delirium, and Post-ICU Cognitive Impairment

Meghan Mattos, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia School of Nursing: An Internet-based insomnia intervention for older adults with cognitive impairment to improve quality of life and disease trajectory

Anaïs Rameau, MD, MPhil, MS, FACS, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Weill Cornell Medicine: Developing an App-Based Voice Clinical Decision Support Tool to Augment the Sensitivity of the Bedside Swallow Evaluation in Older Adults

Katie Schenning MD, MPH, MCR, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University: Optimizing anesthesia to prevent postoperative cognitive and functional decline in older adults

Mina S. Sedrak, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, City of Hope: Targeting Senescence to Improve Frailty in Older Cancer Survivors

Corey B. Simon, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Duke University School of Medicine: Stress Reactivity and Low Back Pain among Older Adults: Influences on Disability (ReLOAD)

Jennifer Vincenzo, PT, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: Developing and testing implementation strategies to support the STEADI for falls risk management in outpatient rehabilitation

2021 Beeson Scholars

Courtney Balentine, MD, MPH, University of Texas Southwestern: A Pilot Study of Local Anesthesia for Inguinal Hernia Surgery in Older Adults

Scott Bauer, MD, ScM, University of California, San Francisco: Age-related changes in skeletal muscle and lower urinary tract symptoms in older adults

Kavita Dharmarajan, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Improving Outcomes for Older Adults Undergoing Palliative Radiation Treatment

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine: The ENRICH Study: Engaging Community and Municipal Services to Promote High Quality Aging in Place After Hip Fracture

Lauren Hunt, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, University of California, San Francisco: Hospice Use in Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Patterns, Policies, and Caregiver Experiences

Elissa Kozlov, PhD, Rutgers School of Public Health: Piloting an mHealth-delivered Mindfulness Therapy with Patients with Serious Illness and their Caregivers to Alleviate Symptoms of Anxiety

Brienne Miner, MD, MHS, Yale University: Evaluating Sleep Deficiency in Aging Populations

Carolyn Presley, MD, MHS, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center: Resiliency among Older Adults Receiving Lung Cancer Treatment: A Supportive Care Intervention Study

Carmen Quatman, MD, PhD, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center: Transformative Solutions for Reducing Frequent 911 Fall Calls in the Homes of Patients with Cognitive Impairments

Carolyn Seib, MD, MAS, Stanford University School of Medicine: Developing a Framework to Individualize Surgical Decision-Making for Older Adults with Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Sachin Shah, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco: Individualizing Anticoagulant use in Older Adults with Atrial Fibrillation

Jasmine Travers, PhD, MHS, RN, AGPCNP-BC, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing: Identifying Unmet Needs Driving Disproportionate and Avoidable Nursing Home Placements among Black and Latino Persons Living with Dementia

2020 Beeson Scholars

Claire Ankuda, MD, MPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Health Care Use After Functional Disability: Opportunities to Improve the Care of Older Adults

Parag Goyal, MD, MSc, Weill Cornell Medicine: A Novel Deprescribing Intervention for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF): A Prototype for Older Adults with Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy

Anand Iyer, MD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham: Aging Well with COPD through Geriatrics-Palliative Care

Felipe Jain, MD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital: Mobile app delivered Mentalizing Imagery Therapy to augment remote family dementia caregiver skills training: a pilot randomized controlled trial with outcomes assessment using digital phenotyping

John Mafi, MD, MPH, University of California, Los Angeles: Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Measure and Reduce Harmful Low-Value Care Among Older Adults

Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School: ED GOAL: An Advance Care Planning Intervention for Seriously Ill Older Adults in the Emergency Department

Nicole Rogus-Pulia, PhD, CCC-SLP, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Impact of Novel Rehabilitative Approaches for Dysphagia in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

Myrick Shinall, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University: Specialist Palliative Care in Surgical Oncology

Nadia Sutton, MD, University of Michigan: Ectonucleotidase Modulation of Age-Dependent Vascular Calcification and Stiffness

2019 Beeson Scholars

Elizabeth Goldberg, MD, The Alpert Medical School of Brown University: GAPcare II: The Geriatric Acute and Post-Acute Care Coordination Program for Fall Prevention in the Emergency Department

Meredith Greene, MD, University of California San Francisco: Tailored Geriatric Assessment and Management for HIV Care Settings

Lisa Kilpela, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio: Binge Eating Spectrum Treatment in Older Women (BESTOW): An Investigation and Intervention-Tailoring Project

Allison Magnuson, DO, University of Rochester: Mitigating Cancer-Related Cognitive Dysfunction in Older Adults with Breast Cancer

Zachary Marcum, PharmD, PhD, University of Washington: Antihypertensives and the Aging Brain

Rowena McBeath, MD, PhD, Jefferson University: In Vivo Model of Human Enthesis Regeneration

Veerawat Phongtankuel, MD, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University: Developing and Piloting a Multi-Component Technology-Based Care Intervention to Address Patient Symptoms and Caregiver Burden In Home Hospice

Jason Roh, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital: Activin Type II Receptor Activity in Age-Related Frailty and Heart Failure

Matthew Schrag, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: Defective Lysosomal Membrane Fission Mediates Axonal Lysosome Accumulation in Dystrophic Neurites in Alzheimer's Disease.

Victoria Lai-Yen Tang, MD, University of California, San Francisco: Improving Outcomes of Older Adults with Psychosocial Vulnerability Undergoing Major Surgery

Melisa Wong, MD, MAS, University of California, San Francisco: Advancing Patient-Centered Decision Making in Older Adults with Lung Cancer: Incorporating Risk of Functional Decline into Treatment Discussions

Heidi Zapata, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine: NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation and Mitochondrial Function in the Setting of Aging and HIV Infection

2018 Beeson Scholars

Rebecca Brown, MD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania: Improving Aging in Place for Older Adults Living in Subsidized Housing

Kathryn Callahan, MD, Wake Forest School of Medicine: Identifying Frailty in Primary Care: Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record-Based Frailty Index

Andrew Cohen, MD, DPhil, Yale University: Dementia and Decision-Making for Older Adults without Surrogates

Guido Falcone, MD, ScD, MPH, Yale School of Medicine: Genetic Analyses of Radiological Severity, Short-Term Functional Outcome and Long-Term Health Status in Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Novel Approaches to Identifying and Engaging Disadvantaged Patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in Clinical Research

Rasheeda Hall, MD, Duke University Medical Center: Deprescribing for Older Dialysis Patients

Biren Kamdar MD, MBA, MHS, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine: Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Delirium and Sleep-Wake Rhythms in Older ICU Patients

Jennifer Portz, PhD, MSW, Colorado State University: Social Convoy Palliative Care (Convoy-Pal) Mobile Health for Older Adults with Advanced Heart Failure

Nancy Schoenborn, MD, Johns Hopkins University: Improving Cancer Screening in Older Adults with Limited Life Expectancy

Indranil Sinha, MD, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital: Aging-Associated Dysregulation of the Hypoxia Pathway Limits Skeletal Muscle Regeneration

2017 Beeson Scholars

Miles Berger, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center: Neuro-inflammation in postoperative cognitive dysfunction: CSF and fMRI studies

Charles Brown, MD, Johns Hopkins University: Monitoring Cerebral Autoregulation in Patients Undergoing Traumatic Hip Fracture Surgery to Improve Postoperative Outcomes

Lauren Ferrante, MD, Yale University: The PREDICT Study (PRE-ICU Determinants of Post-ICU FunCTional Outcomes among Older Adults)

Jonathan Graff-Radford, MD, Mayo Clinic: Cerebral Microbleeds in the aging population

Caroline Stephens RN, PhD, GNP, University of California, San Francisco: Improving Palliative Care Access through Technology (ImPAcTT): A Multi-Component Pilot Study

2016 Beeson Scholars

Nathan Brummel MD, MSCI, Vanderbilt University: Long Term Outcomes of Physical Activity in Older Adults with Critical Illness

Zara Cooper MD, MSc, FACS, Harvard Medical School: Beyond 30-Days: Patient-Oriented Outcomes among Older Adults after Emergency General Surgery

Eleni Linos MD, DrPH, University of California, San Francisco: Involving Older Adults in Decision Making for Skin Cancer

Brendan Lucey, MD, Washington University School of Medicine: Sleep Quality and Human Amyloid-Beta Kinetics

Hillary Lum, MD, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver and VA Eastern Colorado GRECC: Refining an Advance Care Planning Group Visit Intervention? A Novel Intervention to Engage Older Adults in Advance Care Planning

Ana Pereira, MD, Rockefeller University: Enhancing Glutamate Transport in Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer's Disease

Anthony Rosen MD, MPH, Weill Cornell Medicine: Identifying Injury Patterns and Forensic Biomarkers Diagnostic of Physical Elder Abuse

Phillip Smith, MD, University of Connecticut: Regulatory Mechanisms in A Homeostatic Model of Geriatric Voiding Problems and Incontinence

Andrew Teich, MD, PhD, Columbia University: An Integrative Analysis of DNA Methylation; Transcriptomic Changes; and Cognitive Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease