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Elizabeth A. Phelan, MD Associate Professor of Medicine/Gerontology University of Washington Elizabeth A. Phelan, MD, MS, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Washington (UW) and an investigator with the UW Health Promotion Research Center and Group Health Cooperative's Center for Health Studies. In her capacity of board-certified geriatrician employed by an academic medical center, Dr. Phelan has ongoing, direct patient care responsibilities in the outpatient and inpatient environments as well as teaching responsibilities for medical students, housestaff, and fellows. Dr. Phelan's research focuses on promoting health and preventing functional decline in older adults and finding ways by which health care systems and communities can support preservation of function. In 2000, she received the Pfizer/American Geriatrics Society Foundation for Health in Aging Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research on Health Outcomes in Geriatrics. Dr. Phelan received her medical degree from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1992 and a Master's in Health Services from the University of Washington in 1998. She completed residency training and served as a chief resident in internal medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed fellowship training with the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program in 1998 and thereafter, pursued a fellowship in geriatric medicine, both at the University of Washington. Since 2000, she has been on faculty at the University of Washington.

Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Improving Primary Care of Older Adults