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| David J. Casarett, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Dr. David Casarett completed his medical training at Case Western Reserve University in 1993, and his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Iowa in 1996. His additional training has included graduate study in medical anthropology at CWRU, and fellowships in ethics at the University of Chicago and in Palliative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a staff physician at the Philadelphia VAMC, where he directs the Palliative Care Clinic and is on the faculty of the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. Dr. Casarett’s major research interest is understanding and improving informed consent and decision-making by older adults, and particularly those who are near the end of life. His work in this area has included epidemiological studies of referral to hospice, utilization of alternatives to hospice, and studies of decision-making about end of life care and end-of-life preferences. Current work includes an examination of the way that patients and their families give informed consent for hospice, a study of the impact of ethnicity on hospice decision-making, and the development of techniques to improve older adults’ decision-making capacity to give consent for research. Dr. Casarett is also the PI of a national study to improve the informed consent process for older adults who enroll in VA cooperative trial. Dr. Casarett is currently funded by a Health Services Career Development Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and by other grants from the Hartford Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. | |
| Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Promoting Earlier Decision-Making About Palliative Care
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