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| Susan Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H. |
| Senior Scientist |
Contact Information
Institute for Aging Research
1200 Centre Street
Boston, MA 02131-1097
Telephone: 617-971-5326
Fax: 617-971-5339
email: smitchell@hrca.harvard.edu
Education
| 1984 |
B.Sc. |
McGill University (2/3 years completed) |
| 1988 |
M.D. |
University of Ottawa |
| 1996 |
M.P.H. |
Harvard University |
Research Interests and Teaching Activities
Dr. Mitchell is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior scientist at Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston. 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 Medical School, the primary care provider for a panel of 40 frail nursing home residents at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, and an attending physician in gerontology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Areas of Interest in Aging
Palliative care, end-of-life care, advanced dementia, nursing home, tube-feeding, clinical epidemiology
Links
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>
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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>
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Mitchell SL, Kiely DK, Hamel MB. Dying with advanced dementia in the nursing home. Arch Int Med 2004;164:321-326. Read More>
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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>
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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>
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Mitchell SL. Clinical crossroads: a 93 year old man with Alzheimer's disease and eating problems JAMA 2007;298:2527-2536. Read More >
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Mitchell SL. Teno JM, Kiely DK, Shaffer ML, Jones RN, Prigerson HG, Volicer L, Givens JL, Hamel MB. "The Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia." N Engl J Med 2009;361:1529-38 Read More >
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