Keturah R. Faurot, PhD, MPH, PA

Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Dr. Keturah (Kim) Faurot is an epidemiologist with the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As the Associate Director for the Program on Integrative Medicine, she conducts nonpharmacologic intervention research for caregivers of people with dementia and for individuals with chronic pain and/or anxiety. With the Epidemiology Department, she developed an algorithm to identify dependency in activities of daily living as a proxy for frailty using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey and Medicare claims data. She is developing a methodology for dietary supplement data collection and safety assessments.

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Presentation(s):

• Measures and Profiles of Frailty and Function

  Saturday, November 5, 2022
  12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET

• 5 - Translation of a Medicare Claims-Based Frailty Algorithm from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM

  Saturday, November 5, 2022
  12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET