Mary Tinetti
Mary Tinetti | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, University of Rochester |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellows Program |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | physician |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Academic advisors | T. Franklin Williams |
Mary Tinetti is an American physician, and Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and Director of the Yale Program on Aging.[1]
Life
She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a B.A. in 1973, and from the University of Michigan Medical School with an M.D. in 1978. She was a resident at the University of Minnesota. She studied on a geriatric fellowship at the University of Rochester with Dr. T. Franklin Williams. She pioneered the study of morbidity due to falls by elderly people, and investigated risk-reduction strategies that were both effective and cost-effective.[2]
Awards
Works
- "A Multifactorial Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Falling among Elderly People Living in the Community", The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 331:821-827, September 29, 1994, Number 13
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org.
External links
- Mary Tinetti, 2009 MacArthur Fellow
- "Q&A with 2009 MacArthur Fellow Mary E. Tinetti, MD, from New Haven, CT.", Gerontology Society of America
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