Geriatric Medicine Fellowship

Faculty Development Session

Fellowship faculty member Dr. Nate Harmon delivered an excellent hour-long professional development session to MDFMR faculty addressing goals of care, difficult conversations, and POLST (physician orders for life-sustaining treatment). The session is part of an ongoing initiative to improve the integration of geriatric-specific care within primary care in order to improve systems of care for […]

Publication: Annette Beyea

Research by fellowship director Dr. Annette Beyea and colleagues was published in the Mountain Area Health Education Center’s online peer-reviewed journal. The authors’ objective was to provide a description of older public housing residents in Asheville, NC that included the burden of chronic disease and functional health status. Dunay M, Williams A, Beyea A, Galvin […]