Richard A. Marottoli, M.D., M.P.H.

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

Research Interests

Dr. Richard Marottoli is the Director Medical Director of the Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is a current recipient of a Donaghue Foundation Investigator Award and a former recipient of 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 and current member of the Committee on the Safe Mobility of Older Persons of the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board.

Selected Publications

1. Marottoli RA, Ostfeld AM, Merrill SS, Perlman GD, Foley DJ, Cooney LM. Driving Cessation and Changes in Mileage Driven Among Elderly Individuals. J Gerontol: Social Sciences. 48:S255-S260, 1993.
2. Drickamer MA, Marottoli RA. Physician Responsibility in the Counseling of Elderly Drivers. Am J Med Sci. 306:277- 81, 1993.
3. Marottoli RA, Wagner DR, Cooney LM, Tinetti ME. Predictors of Crashes and Moving Violations Among Elderly Drivers. Ann Int Med; 121:842-6, 1994.
4. 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.
5. Marottoli RA, Mendes de Leon CF, Glass TA, Williams CS, Cooney LM, Berkman LF, Tinetti ME. Driving Cessation and Increased Depressive Symptoms: Prospective Evidence from the New Haven EPESE. J Am Geriatr Soc. 45:202-6, 1997.
6. 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.
7. Marottoli RA, Richardson ED. Awareness of, and Confidence in, Driving Ability Among Older Persons. Acc Anal Prev. 30:331-6;1998.
8. 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.
9. Marottoli RA. The Physician's Role in the Assessment of Older Drivers. American Family Physician. 61:39-40, 2000.
10. Marottoli RA. New laws or better information and communication? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 48(1):100-2, 2000.
11. 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.