Elizabeth A Phelan is a Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington and Affiliate Investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. She is the founding Director of the Fall Prevention Clinic at Harborview Medical Center. She is also Project Director for the Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center. She earned her MD from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, in 1992 and her MSPH from the University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, in 1998. She completed her Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1992–1995) and her Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle (1998–2000). Her research broadly aims to promote health and prevent functional decline of community-dwelling elders through improving the quality of care for geriatric syndromes (falls, dementia, depression).
Shelly L Gray has been a faculty member in the UW Department of Pharmacy since 1992 and is currently a Professor and Endowed Director of the Plein Center for Aging. She earned her PharmD from the University of Michigan and her MS in Epidemiology from the University of Washington. Previously, she completed a two-year fellowship in geriatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a clinical pharmacy residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. She has expertise in pharmacoepidemiology and deprescribing research and has published several studies evaluating the risks associated with medication use (e.g., anticholinergics, benzodiazepines) and important health outcomes, including falls, fractures, and dementia. She has been an investigator on numerous federally funded research grants and has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications.
