PRESENTED BY:
Matthew L. Russell, MD, MSc, Instructor in Medicine, HMS; Associate Physician, MGH: Dr. Russell is the Clinical Director of Geriatric Medicine and Medical Director of the Ambulatory Geriatric Medicine initiatives. In these roles, he has helped to expand the presence of Geriatric Medicine in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Russell is the co-director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Age-Positively program, a clinical collaboration between the division of Infectious Disease and the section of Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Russell is board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and has practiced across the spectrum of healthcare delivery in both fields, including home and office-based practices, and skilled nursing facility and acute hospital care. He has held leadership positions including medical directorships of several nursing and rehabilitation facilities, a home health agency, and hospice programs. Dr. Russell is a faculty member of the Academy for Communication in Healthcare (ACH) and is a local and national resource for teaching learners of all levels in the practice of high-stakes communication in the clinical setting. Dr. Russell is also a core faculty member of the MGH Continuum Project, a program that offers serious illness communication training to multidisciplinary clinicians, as well as advance care planning tools and resources for patients and families.
Virginia Triant, MD, MPH, Divisions of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine, MGH: Dr. Triant is a clinician and clinical investigator in the Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine Divisions at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) dedicated to studying the long-term non-communicable disease and aging-related complications of HIV infection. The focus of Dr. Triant’s research has been on the intersection between HIV and cardiovascular disease and non-communicable chronic disease complications. She has investigated rates and determinants of clinical outcomes such as myocardial infarction, stroke, and fracture in HIV and is currently investigating optimal cardiovascular risk prediction strategies in HIV and HIV/HCV co-infected individuals. Dr. Triant is an active infectious diseases clinician, maintaining an outpatient clinic and attending on the infectious diseases consult service at MGH. Through research, clinical care, and mentoring activities, she brings a cross-disciplinary approach to clinical outcomes research with the goal of improving long term outcomes and enhancing the care and well-being of vulnerable populations.
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