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    Natalia Festa, MD, MHS

    Assistant Professor in Medicine (Geriatrics)
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    Assistant Professor in Medicine (Geriatrics)

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    Natalia Festa, MD, is a physician trained in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Geriatrics at Yale. She completed her MHS as a fellow within the Yale Program on Aging and National Clinician Scholars Program. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and earned her MD at Stanford University. Her research focuses on identifying modifiable regulatory and health services factors that can improve person-centered aging outcomes for nursing home residents. Her research also focuses on the identification of dementia using routinely collected healthcare data.

    Last Updated on April 22, 2025.

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    Education & Training

    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Yale School of Medicine (2024)
    MHS
    Yale University, National Clinician Scholars Program (2023)
    Clinical Fellow
    Yale New Haven Hospital (2021)
    Intern and Resident
    Massachusetts General Hospital (2020)
    Chief Resident
    Newton Wellesley Hospital (Community Training Site for Massachusetts General Hospital) (2017)
    MD
    Stanford University (2017)
    AB
    Harvard College (2010)

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    Medical Research Interests

    Administrative Claims, Healthcare; Alzheimer Disease; Dementia; Geriatrics; Long-Term Care; Medicare; Nursing Homes

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    Natalia Festa, MD, is a physician trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and geriatrics at Yale. She completed her master’s degree as a fellow within the Yale Program on Aging and National Clinician Scholars Program.

    She earned her medical degree at Stanford University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard College. Her research focuses on identifying modifiable regulatory and health services factors that can improve person-centered aging outcomes for nursing home residents. Her research also focuses on the identification of dementia using routinely collected healthcare data.

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