Geriatric Medicine is a 12 month ACGME accredited fellowship open to Board eligible or certified Family or Internal Medicine physicians. The goal is to train physicians to be expert providers of primary care in Geriatric Medicine. Candidates must qualify for a permanent Missouri medical license and have a sincere desire to provide care to the frail and elderly. Jon Dedon, MD, Board certified in Geriatric and Internal Medicine, oversees the fellows. Other faculty include: Steve Griffith, MD, Russell White, MD, and Shelley Alexander, DO, also board certified in Geriatric Medicine.

Resident Selection
Three Geriatric Medicine fellows per year are accepted. You can apply to the Geriatric fellowship through ERAS # 1252831027

Compensation AY 2009-10
$49,662

Contact
Program Director, jon.dedon@tmcmed.org

Learning Opportunities

• Clinical Mentoring by Family Physicians with additional qualifications in Geriatric Medicine and considerable experience: Geriatrics continuity clinic biweekly; Geriatrics Assessment Consultation clinic for our large medical practice.

• Academic Faculty Development: Help coordinate the physician education and care of our hospice
patients; present morbidity and mortality reviews; coordinate geriatrics journal club

• Dedicated time weekly for work related to track: didactic, clinical, presentations, chart review

• CME conferences in geriatrics – good for networking and academic learning

We welcome two of our most recent Family Medicine Residency graduates as Geriatric fellows for 2008-09:

Annelle Johnson, MD	Malathi Tadakamalla, MD

1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
2006	2007	2008

1998

Kevin Jackson, MD	Family Medicine - McMaster U, Ontario	AZ
Madhumati Raju, MD	Internal Medicine - Lehigh, Allentown PA	MO

1999

Mohammed Dardari, MD

Internal Medicine - St. Luke's, Cleveland OH

MN

2000

Ahmrad Batrash, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	KS
Jabar Fazeli, MD	Yale - Internal Medicine, Connecticut	ME
Varuna Gadiyaram, MD	New York Methodist - Internal Medicine	CO

2001

Christine Moore, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	MO
Naveena Nelson, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	KS

2002

Kevin Farrell, DO	UMKC - Internal Medicine	MO
Parul Gupta, MD	Mount Sinai - Internal Medicine, Jersey City	ND

2003

Amit Joshi	UMKC - Internal Medicine	KS
Joanna Tran, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	KS
Gladstone Tucker, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	MO

2004

Joy Cuezze, MD	Research - Family Medicine	MO
Ali Khezrian, MD	Research - Family Medicine	MO

2005

Robert Levine, MD	Wake Forest - Family Medicine, Winston-Salem NC	MO
Ibrahim Mourad, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	MO
Mark Rotich, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	IL

2006

Shelley Alexander,	UMKC - Internal Medicine	MO
Mary Buss Lightfoot	UMKC - Internal Medicine	MO

2007

Shyam Akkulugari, MD	Baptist - Family Medicine	MO
Manuel San, DO	KCUMB / MCI - Family Medicine	MO
Charina Yango, MD	UMKC - Family Medicine	FL

2008

Revathi Bhat, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	MO
Iris Comes, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	MO
Jayasree Pillarisetti, MD	UMKC - Internal Medicine	KS