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Christopher M. Callahan, MD
Pettinga Professor in Aging Research; Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Aging Research
Indiana University School of Medicine
Christopher M. Callahan, MD, FACP
Dr. Callahan graduated from St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1985. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine in 1988 and subsequently completed a fellowship in Academic General Internal Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine in 1991. He has added qualifications in Geriatric Medicine and his research, education, and clinical interests are in primary care geriatrics. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Cornelius and Yvonne Pettinga Scholar in Aging Research. He is also a Research Scientist in the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care and Director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research. In 1999-2000 he was a Visiting Scholar in the History and Psychopathology Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on strategies to improve the care of geriatric patients by primary care physicians in primary care settings. His specific research interests include the recognition and treatment of late life depression and dementia. Dr. Callahan’s Beeson Scholars project was a descriptive study of health-related quality of life and clinical outcomes among older adults receiving percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes. The results of the study were published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society in 1999 and 2000.
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