Margaret Drickamer

Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Section Chief for Geriatric Education
Director, Yale Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
Section of Geriatrics

Academic Activities

Dr. Margaret Drickamer is associate section chief for education and coordinates medical student and resident education in geriatrics. She is also Director of the Geriatric Fellowship, directing the didactics and the clinical rotations. Her interests are in Ethics and Dementia, and she has written on such topics as truth–telling in Alzheimer's disease and decisional–capacity.

Clinical and Teaching Activities

Dr. Drickamer is a half–time clinician in the Yale New Haven Geriatric Practice and Medical Director at Arden House, a 360 bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, Whitney Center, a continuing care retirement community and the Home-Based Primary Care Program at VA Connecticut. She attends on the Acute Care of the Elderly Unit at Yale–New Haven Hospital and is active in housestaff teaching through their geriatric rotations and electives. She leads 2 medical student workshops on the cognitive and functional assessment of the geriatric patient.

Selected Recent Publications

• Drickamer MA. Legal and Ethical Issues. In: Cobbs EL, Duthie EH, Murphy JB, eds. Geriatric Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine, 5th Ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Prublishing for the American Geriatrics Society; 2002. pp. 19-27.
• Drickamer MA. Ethics on Clinical Practice. In: Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery. Rosenthal R, Zenilman ME, Katlic MR: eds. Spinger Publication Co., New York, NY. 2001 pp. 195-200.
• Drickamer MA. Assessment of Decisional Capacity and Competency. In: Hazzard WR et al, eds. Principles of geriatric medicine and gerontology. 5th Ed. New York, NY: McGraw–Hill Professional; 2003. pp 121–125 .
• Drickamer MA . Futility and Goal Setting in the Nursing Home Setting. Institute for Social and Policy Studies Journal. 2003:4;33–36.
• Jenq GY, Guo Z, Drickamer MA, Marottoli RA, Reid MC. Timing in the Communication of Pain Among Nursing Home Residents, Nursing Staff and Clinicians. Arch Int Med. 2004;164:1508–12.
• Juthani–Mehta M, Drickamer MA, Towle V, Zhang Y, Tinetti ME, Quagliarello VJ. Nursing Home Practitioner Survey of Diagnostic Criteria for Urinary Tract Infections. JAGS. 2005;53:1986–90.
• Leonard R, Tinetti ME, Allore HG, Drickamer MA. Potentially Modifiable Resident Characteristics that are Associated with Physical or Verbal Aggression Among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1295–1300.
• Drickamer MA, Levy B, Irwin K, Rohrbaugh R. Perceived needs for Geriatric Education by Medical Students, Internal Medicine Residents and Faculty. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21(12):1230-4.
• Richman SM. Drickamer MA. Gynecologic care of elderly women. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2007:8(4):219-23.

Education:	B.A. Harvard University (Radcliffe College) M.D., C.M. McGill University
Training:	Residency: The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge MA

Contact

Mailing Address
Section of Geriatrics
Department of Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
20 York Street
New Haven, CT 06510

E-mail
margaret.drickamer@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-688-9423

Fax
203-688-4209