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| Mark S. Lachs, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology Weill Medical College of Cornell University Mark S. Lachs MD, MPH Dr. Mark Lachs is Co-Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the College. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the NYU School of Medicine, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. In 1988 he became a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale where he also earned a MPH degree in chronic disease epidemiology and added qualification in Geriatric Medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine. He spent four years on the Yale Faculty before coming to Cornell. Dr. Lachs’ major area of interest is the disenfranchised elderly, and he has published widely in the areas of elder abuse and neglect, adult protective services, the measurement of functional status, ethics, and the financing of health care. He has lectured internationally on these topics. His honors and awards include an American College of Physicians Teaching and Research Scholarship, a National Institute on Aging Academic Leadership Award, and a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholarship, the country’s preeminent career development award in aging. He is also the recipient of RO1 funding from the National Institute of Health to study the impact of crime on the physical and emotional health of older adults. In January of 2000, Dr. Lachs became the first director of the Cornell Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care (CARCC), a multidisciplinary group of scientists, clinicians, and educators who seek to speed scientific advances from bench to bedside, teach geriatric medicine to physicians-in-training at all levels, and create a trans-institutional community of gerontologists at Cornell. His service to community and country includes membership on an Institute of Medicine Committee to address the training needs of health professionals in family violence, and participation in the AMA/ABA joint conference on family violence. He is also a Board Member of the American Federation for Aging Research. Dr. Lachs also enjoys practicing and teaching geriatric medicine in the outpatient, hospital, long-term care, and housecall setting. He maintains a practice at The Irving Sherwood Wright Center on Aging, a community based ambulatory care practice for older adults which he founded with Divisional Co-Chief Dr. Ronald Adelman in 1998. A unique social experiment intended to provide seamless medical and supportive services for older people, the physical space at 1484 First Avenue in New York City also is home to the Burden Center for the Aging (a community service organization) and the Hebrew Home for the Aged’s ElderServe Program (a home care agency). He and Dr. Adelman also lead a student interest group in Geriatric Medicine at Cornell. | |
| Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Depression And Self-Neglect In Community-Dwelling Elders.
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