Joseph Ouslander, MD
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Joseph Ouslander, MD, is professor of and associate dean for geriatric programs at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, and professor at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He also serves as professor of medicine in the division of gerontology and geriatric medicine of the department of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. |
Dr. Ouslander is an internationally recognized geriatrician. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. He has served as a professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he spent 15 years developing research, educational and clinical programs. From 1996-2007 he served as the director of geriatric medicine and gerontology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where he was responsible for leading clinical, teaching and research programs in geriatrics. He was president and board chair of the American Geriatrics Society and serves as the executive editor of the most widely read journal in geriatric medicine, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He has published over 200 original articles and book chapters and is a co-author of two popular textbooks, Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics and Medical Care in the Nursing Home, and an editor of a major textbook in geriatrics, Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in the U.S. and throughout the world.
