Richard A. Marottoli

Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, The Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center
Section of Geriatrics

Research Interests

Dr. Richard Marottoli is the Medical Director of the Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center at Yale–New Haven Hospital. He is a former recipient of a Donaghue Foundation Investigator Award, VA HSR&D level I and II Career Development Awards, and a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Award. He was the first graduate of the Yale Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology. His research interests include the approaches clinicians can use to identify at–risk older drivers, interventions to lessen risk, and the factors contributing to, and the consequences of, driving cessation. Dr. Marottoli is a past–chairperson of the Committee on the Safe Mobility of Older Persons of the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board.

Selected Recent Publications

• Marottoli RA, Wagner DR, Cooney LM, Tinetti ME. Predictors of Crashes and Moving Violations Among Elderly Drivers. Ann Int Med; 121:842–6, 1994.
• Marottoli RA, Berkman L. Leo–Summers L, Cooney LM. Predictors of Mortality and Institutionalization Following Hip Fracture. Am J Public Health. 84:1807–12, 1994.
• Marottoli RA, Richardson ED, Stowe M, Miller EG, Brass LM, Cooney LM, Tinetti ME. In–office Identification of High Risk Older Drivers. J Am Geriatr Soc. 46:562–8, 1998.
• Marottoli RA, Richardson ED. Awareness of, and Confidence in, Driving Ability Among Older Persons. Acc Anal Prev. 30:331–6;1998.
• Marottoli RA. The Assessment of Older Drivers. In Hazzard, WR, Blass JP, Ettinger WH, Halter JB, Ouslander JG (eds.), Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 4th Edition, McGraw Hill, Inc., 267–74, 1999.
• Marottoli RA. de Leon CFM. Glass TA. Williams CS. Cooney LM Jr. Berkman LF. Consequences of driving cessation: decreased out–of–home activity levels. Journals of Gerontology Series B–Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences. 55(6):S334–40, 2000.
• Peduzzi P, Guo Z, Marottoli RA, Gil TM, Araujo K, Allore HG, Improved Self-confidence Was a Mechanizm of Action in Two Geriatric Trials Evaluating Patient Interventions. J. Clin Epidwmiol. 60:94-102, 2007.
• Marottoli RA, Allore H, Araujo KLB, Iannone LP, Acampora D, Gottschalk M, Charpentier P, Kasl S, Peduzzi P. A Randomized Trial of a Physical Conditioning Program to Enhance the Driving Performance of Older Persons. J Gen Intern Med. 22:590-7, 2007.
• Marottoli RA, Van Ness PH, Araujo KLB, Iannone LP, Acampora D, Charpentier P, Peduzzi P. A Randomized Trial of an Education Program to Enhance Older Driver Performace. J Gerontol: Med Sci. 62A:1113-9, 2007.
• Vaz Fragoso CA, Araujo KLB, Van Ness PHm Marottoli RA. Prevalence of Sleep Disturbances in a Cohort of Older Drivers. J Gerontol Med Sci. 715-23, 2008.

Contact

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

E-mail
richard.marottoli@ynhh.org

Office Phone
203-937-3871

Fax
203-937-3457