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

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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]

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  1. ^ "Mary e. Tinetti, Internal Medicine: Yale School of Medicine". Archived from the original on 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  2. ^ "Yale Aging Expert and Evolutionary Biologist Receive "Genius" Grants". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  3. ^ "MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org.

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