Mary Tinetti is an American physician, and Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at

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, and Director of the Yale Program on Aging.

Life

She graduated from the

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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

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. She studied on a geriatric fellowship at the

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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.

Awards

*2009 MacArthur Fellows Program

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

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''
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Yale University faculty MacArthur Fellows American geriatricians Women geriatricians University of Michigan Medical School alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine {{US-physician-stub