Susan Friedman, M.D., M.P.H.

Contact Information

Phone Numbers

Administrative: (585) 341-6770

Office: (585) 341-6775

Fax: (585) 341-8305

A member of the University of Rochester Medical Faculty Group

An Accountable Health Partner

Accepting New Patients

Locations

Highland Hospital
1000 South Avenue
Box 58
Rochester, NY 14620

Faculty Appointments

Professor - Department of Medicine , Highland Hospital (SMD)

Patient Care Setting

Geriatrics & Aging

Biography

Professional Background

Dr. Friedman received her BSM, MD, and MPH degrees from Northwestern University in Chicago. She completed her residency in General Internal Medicine at Hopkins Bayview in Baltimore, before doing a 3-year Geriatrics fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. After 5 years on faculty at Johns Hopkins, based at Hopkins Bayview, she moved to the University of Rochester in 2000. Her research focuses on health services and outcomes research, and includes models of long-term care, falls and fractures in older adults, comorbidity, and healthy aging. She was one of the first group of physicians in the US to be board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine in 2017, and has focused recent clinical, teaching, program development, and research efforts on fostering healthy aging through Lifestyle Medicine. In July 2021, she was named as the founding director of the new Highland Hospital DOM Lifestyle Medicine program.

Credentials

Education

1988
MD | Northwestern University

Post-doctoral Training & Residency

07/01/1992 - 06/30/1995
Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

07/01/1989 - 06/30/1991
Residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

07/01/1988 - 06/30/1989
Internship in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

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Awards

2021 - Present
Fellow
Sponsor: American College of Lifestyle Medicine

2021
Robert L. Berg, MD, Community Health / Health Care Crisis Award
Sponsor: Rochester Academy of Medicine

2019
Best professional abstract
Sponsor: American College of Lifestyle Medicine national meeting
Location: Orlando, FL

2018
Best professional abstract
Sponsor: American College of Lifestyle Medicine national meeting
Location: Indianapolis, IN

2017
Highly Commended Medical Book Awards
Sponsor: British Medical Association

2016
"Shining Example"
Location: Highland Hospital

2016
Division Aging Research award
Location: Division of Geriatrics and Aging

2016
Best overall poster
Sponsor: American College of Lifestyle Medicine national meeting

2015
"Shining Example"
Location: Highland Hospital

2008 - Present
Fellow
Sponsor: American Geriatrics Society

2000 - 2007
NIH K23 Career Development Award

1996 - 1998
Pfizer / American Geriatrics Society Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Publications

Journal Articles

4/2021
Friedman, S.M.; Barnett, C.H.; Franki, R.; Pollock, B.; Garver, B.; Barnett, T.D. "Jumpstarting health with a 15-day whole-food plant-based program." Am J Lifestyle Med. 2021; .

3/2021
Batsis, J.A.; Daniel, K.; Eckstrom, E.; Goldlist, K.; Kusz, H.; Lane, D.; Loewenthal, J.; Coll, P.P.; Friedman, S.M. "Promoting Healthy Aging During COVID-19: an AGS Healthy Aging Special Interest Group Statement." J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021; : 572-580.

9/2020
Friedman, S.M.; Barnett, C.B.; Barnett, T.D. "Lifestyle Medicine in the Midst of a Pandemic" . Am J Lifestyle Med. 2020; 36.

Books & Chapters

2020
Chapter Title: Lifestyle (Medicine) and Healthy Aging
Book Title: Healthy Aging
Author List: Friedman SM
Published By: Elsevier 2020

2020
Chapter Title: Preface: Healthy aging: What do we mean, and how do we accomplish it?
Book Title: Healthy Aging
Author List: Friedman SM
Published By: Elsevier 2020

2020
Chapter Title: Peri-operative medical management
Book Title: Evidence-based Orthopaedics
Author List: Muniak J, Friedman SM, Nicholas J, Mendelson D
Published By: Blackwell Publishing 2020 in Oxford

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