 
Dr. Mary E. Tinetti
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of the elderly, assumes Crofoot chair
Dr. Mary E. Tinetti, the new Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine, has devoted her career to the health of the elderly, and has a special interest in interventions that can help prevent older people from falling.
Tinetti is chief of geriatrics at the School of Medicine and director of the Program on Aging and the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. Her studies show that, for many older people, injuries from falls often result in both a loss of mobility and independence, and can be the beginning of a series of health problems that eventually lead to death.
Tinetti has earned national prominence for her work on fall-reduction strategies and her studies showing that physical exercise that improves balance and builds lower-body strength, such as dancing and t'ai chi, has a major impact on reducing falls.
In recent research with Yale colleagues, Tinetti found that the problem of dizziness in elderly people is more often a result of multiple problems -- described as a "geriatric syndrome" -- than a symptom of a particular illness.
Tinetti has written or coauthored nearly a hundred articles on health issues affecting the elderly, including alcohol consumption, home vs. hospital care for chronic illness, the care of persons with dementia, and older drivers at risk.
Also a professor of epidemiology and public health, Tinetti joined the Yale faculty as an assistant professor in 1984, when she was appointed codirector of the Rehabilitation Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Prior to coming to Yale, she held a Kaiser Clinical Epidemiology and Geriatrics Fellowship at the University of Rochester in New York. She earned her undergraduate and M.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, and completed her medical internship and residency at the University of Minnesota.
Tinetti has directed the Claude D. Pepper Center since 1992 and became director of the Program on Aging in 1995 after serving as its codirector for three years. She has been chief of the medical school's geriatrics program since 1994. She became a full professor at Yale in 1996.
The Yale physician and researcher has received numerous honors for her work, including a National Institute on Aging Academic Award, the Kaiser Foundation Faculty Scholar Award, the American Federation for Clinical Research's Henry Christian Memorial Award for aging research and the American Geriatrics Society's Humana Award for Outstanding Clinical Investigator. A member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, she serves on the board of directors of the American Geriatrics Society and on the editorial board of the Merck Manual of Geriatrics.
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