Thank you for your recent article on geroscience at Yale as part of your Science of Aging special report.
Yale was one of the first academic medical centers to train resident physicians and medical students in the care of older patients, when I, along with the help of my colleagues, established a geriatrics medical resident rotation in 1976, which continues to this day.
Yale faculty members in geriatrics have made major contributions to the medical literature in such areas as falls, delirium, functional decline, driving problems, sleep disorders, and goals of care for older individuals.
A number of leaders have been key supporters of Yale Geriatrics, including Robert Gifford, MD, one-time chief of General Internal Medicine and later deputy dean for education; former chairs of Medicine Samuel O. Thier, MD, and Ralph Horwitz, MD; former Dean of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Leon Rosenberg, MD; former YSM Deputy Dean Robert Donaldson, MD; and Marna Borgstrom, MPH, one-time CEO of the Yale New Haven Health System. In addition, Mary Tinetti, MD, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics), who established the Yale Program on Aging, has been instrumental in the success of Yale Geriatrics.
Our mission in the Geriatrics section is to ensure that all Yale students and resident physicians are well trained in the care of the older person. We are pleased that four of the 2025 graduating Yale internal medicine residents will pursue geriatrics fellowships—three at Yale. Yale’s impact on the field of geriatrics will thus continue for decades to come.