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Palliative Care Research Director
| Susan L. Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H. |
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Senior Scientist
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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| Contact Information |
Hebrew SeniorLife
Institute for Aging Research
1200 Centre Street
Boston, MA 02131-1097 |
| Telephone: 617-363-8626 |
| Fax: 617-363-8936 |
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email: smitchell@hsl.harvard.edu
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| Education |
| 1984 B.Sc. McGill University (2/3 years completed) |
| 1988 M.D. University of Ottawa |
| 1996 M.P.H. Harvard University |
| Research Interests & Teaching Activities |
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Dr. Mitchell is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior scientist at Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research. She is a clinical epidemiologist and board certified geriatrician and internist in Canada and the United States. Dr. Mitchell's research interests focus on decision-making, health outcomes, and resource utilization for older people near the end-of-life, particularly those with dementia. She is the principal investigator on several large research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health to study the end-stages of dementia and has been a lead author on many articles in top peer-reviewed journals related to this topic.
Dr. Mitchell is the associate director of research training for the Geriatric Fellowship Program at Harvard, the primary care provider for a panel of 40 frail nursing home residents at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, and attending physician in gerontology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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| Areas of Interest in Aging |
| Palliative care, end-of-life care, advanced dementia, nursing home, tube-feeding, clinical epidemiology |
Selected Publications
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- Mitchell SL, Kiely DK, Lipsitz LA. The risk factors and impact on survival of feeding tubes in nursing home residents with severely advanced dementia. Arch Int Med 1997;157:327-332. Read More>
- Mitchell SL, Teno JM, Roy J, Kabumoto G, Mor V. A national study of the clinical and organizational determinants of tube-feeding among nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment. JAMA 2003; 290:73-80. Read More>
- Mitchell SL, Kiely DK, Hamel MB. Dying with advanced dementia in the nursing home. Arch Int Med 2004; 164:321-326. Read More>
- Mitchell SL, Kiely DK, Hamel MB, Park PS, Morris JN. Estimating prognosis for nursing home residents with advanced dementia. JAMA 2004; 291:2734-2740. Read More>
- Mitchell SL, Kiely DK, Jones RN, Prigerson H, Volicer L, Teno JM. Advanced dementia research in the nursing home: the CASCADE study. Alz Dis Assoc Disord 2006; 20:166-175. Read More>
- Mitchell SL. Clinical crossroads: a 93-Year-old man with advanced dementia and eating problems. JAMA 2007; 298:2527-2536.
- D'Agata E, Mitchell SL. Antimicrobial utilization patterns among nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Arch Int Med 2008; 168:357-362
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