Mary Tinetti

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.[1]

Mary Tinetti
Alma materUniversity of Michigan, University of Rochester
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program
Scientific career
Fieldsphysician
InstitutionsYale University
Academic advisorsT. Franklin Williams

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.[2]

Awards

Works
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References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2010-03-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-03-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org.


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