Margaret Drickamer, M.D.

• Associate Professor of Medicine
• Director, Integrated Model of Aging and Geriatric Education (IMAGE)
• Associate Section Chief for Geriatric Education
• Director, Yale Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
  
  

Academic Activities

Dr. Margaret Drickamer is Director of the IMAGE Program (Integrated Model of Aging and Geriatric Education), a program that is redesigning geriatric education for clinicians (see education section) and is Co-Director of the Geriatric Fellowship, directing the didactics and the clinical rotations. She is also the Deputy Director of Education for the Section of Geriatrics. 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 Nursing Home Practice and Medical Director at Harborside Arden House, a 360 bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, and Whitney Center, a life-care senior living facility . She attends on the Acute Care of the Elderly Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital and is active in housestaff teaching. She leads 2 medical student workshops and is a seminar leader for the Professional Responsibilities Course and the Doctor-Patient Encounter Course at the Medical School.

1. Drickamer MA, Lachs MS. Should patients with Alzheimer's disease be told their diagnosis? The New England Journal of Medicine 326(14):947-951, 1992.
2. Lachs MS, Feinstein AR, Cooney LM Jr, Drickamer MA, et al. A simple procedure for general screening for functional disability in elderly patients. Annals of Internal Medicine 112(9):699-706, 1990.
3. Drickamer MA, Cooney LM Jr. A geriatrician's guide to enteral feeding. Journal of the American Geriatric Society 41:672-679, 1993.
4. Drickamer MA, Lachs MS. Telling the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease - a reply. The New England Journal of Medicine 328:736, 1993.
5. Drickamer MA. Lee MA. Ganzini L. Practical issues in physician-assisted suicide. Annals of Internal Medicine . 126(2):146-51, 1997.
6. Drickamer MA. Lee MA. Ganzini L. Practical issues in physician-assisted suicide. Annals of Internal Medicine . 126(2):146-51, 1997.
7. Fried TR. van Doorn C. Tinetti ME. Drickamer MA. Older persons' preferences for site of treatment in acute illness. Journal of General Internal Medicine . 13(8):522-7, 1998.
8. Fried TR. van Doorn C. O'Leary JR. Tinetti ME. Drickamer MA. Older persons' perceptions of home and hospital as sites of treatment for acute illness. American Journal of Medicine . 107(4):317-23, 1999. Drickamer MA. Commentary: honesty is the best policy. BMJ. 318(7198):1618, 1999.
9. Fried TR. van Doorn C. O'Leary JR. Tinetti ME. Drickamer MA. Older persons' preferences for site of terminal care. Annals of Internal Medicine . 131(2):109-12, 1999.
10. Drickamer MA. Ethics in 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. Drickamer MA . Futility and Goal Setting in the Nursing Home Setting. Institute for Social and Policy Studies Journal. 2003:4;33-36.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.