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Institutions
  
Yale University

Fields
  
Physician

Name
  
Mary Tinetti

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship

Education
  
University of Michigan


Mary Tinetti httpswwwmacfoundorgmediaphotosMARYTINETTI

Alma mater
  
University of Michigan, University of Rochester

Academic advisors
  
T. Franklin Williams

Notable awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship

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Mary Tinetti is an American physician, and Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and Director of the Yale Program on Aging.

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Mary Tinetti httpswwwmacfoundorgmediaphotosMARYTINETTI

Life

She graduated from the University of Michigan 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 University of Minnesota. She studied on a geriatric fellowship at the University of Rochester 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

    Mary Tinetti Wikipedia