Research Training Grant in Geriatrics and Gerontology - Faculty

Annette Medina-Walpole, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Department of Medicine
General Medicine and Geriatrics Unit

Associate Medical Director
Monroe Community Hospital

American Board of Internal Medicine

Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine

Dr. Annette Medina-Walpole joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in 1998. She is a summa cum laude graduate of St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY) and completed her medical degree at the University of Chicago in 1990. She then completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of North Carolina; followed by a fellowship in gerontology and geriatric medicine at the University of Washington.

Since her arrival at the University of Rochester, Dr. Medina-Walpole has been awarded a Hartford Center of Excellence Young Investigator Award, the New Investigator Award from American Geriatrics Society, is a 1999 recipient of a Geriatric Academic Career Award from the Bureau of Health Professions, and a co-principal investigator on the Donald W. Reynolds grant to strengthen geriatric training at all levels. She has recently been named as a Lawrence A. Kohn Senior Teaching Fellow and as a Dean's Teaching Fellow. She is co-director of the Aging Theme at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and the Program Director of the Geriatric Fellowship Program. Her current career and research interests include geriatric education and nursing home-acquired pneumonia.

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