Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
New York City, New York, United States
Joshua Chodosh, MD, MSHS is the Director and inaugural endowed Michael L. Freedman Professor of Geriatric Research in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is Professor of Medicine and Population Health at NYU and Director of the Freedman Research Center on Aging, Technology, and Cognitive Health. He is also a core investigator in the VA HSR&D program at the Manhattan VA. Dr. Chodosh is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and was on faculty as a Professor of Medicine at UCLA until he was recruited to NY in 2015. He has held a number of leadership roles both regionally and nationally focused on healthcare policy impacting the quality of care for patients with chronic disease, particularly those with dementia. He served as Chair of the State of California Alzheimer’s and related Dementias Advisory Committee and co-chaired a statewide effort leading to the California State Plan for Alzheimer’s disease, which provided a model for other state plans and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. Dr. Chodosh is a member of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Editorial Board and he has published on quality of care for dementia and other chronic disease conditions, while leading multiple implementation trials. He initiated a VA dementia assessment and care management program (V-CAMP) using clinical video-telehealth for rural-based Veterans with dementia that is poised to spread nationally. In addition to being an NIH-funded investigator, Dr. Chodosh is director of the CDC-funded BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Early Detection of Dementia at NYU and co-Director of a $7.5 million State of NY Department of Health service grant to develop and coordinate caregiver services for family members of those with dementia living in all five boroughs of New York City.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET