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

Contact Information

Phone Numbers

Office: (585) 341-6770

Fax: (585) 341-8305

A member of the University of Rochester Medical Faculty Group

An Accountable Health Partner

Not 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 interests are in health services and outcomes research, and include models of long-term care, falls and fractures in older adults, comorbidity, and healthy aging.

Credentials

Specialties

Geriatric Medicine - American Board of Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine - American Board of Internal Medicine

Education

1988
MD | Northwestern University Medical School

Post-doctoral Training & Residency

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

07/01/1989 - 06/30/1991
Residency in Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview (Formerly Baltimore City and Francis Scott Key Med Ctr.)

07/01/1988 - 6/30/1989
Internship in Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview (Formerly Baltimore City and Francis Scott Key Med Ctr.)

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Awards

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

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

2000 - 2007
NIH K23 Career Development Award

1996 - 1998
Pfizer / American Geriatrics Society Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Publications

Journal Articles

2018
Friedman, S. M.; Mulhausen, P.; Cleveland, M.L.; Coll, P.P.; Daniel, K.M.; Hayward, A.D.; Shah, K.; Skudlarska, B.; White, H.K. "American Geriatrics Society White Paper on Healthy Aging Executive Summary" . Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2018; .

2016
Friedman, S. M. "Response to "Healthy ageing: evidence that improvement is possible at every age"" . European Geriatric Medicine. 2016; .

Books & Chapters

2016
Chapter Title: Outcome after fracture.
Book Title: Musculoskeletal Trauma in the Elderly.
Author List: S.M. Friedman
Edited By: Court-Brown C, McQueen M, Swiontkowski M, Ring D, Friedman S, Duckworth A, eds.
Published By: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis. 2016 in Boca Raton

2012
Chapter Title: "Peri-operative medical management."
Book Title: Evidence-based Orthopaedics
Author List: Mendelson DA, Friedman SM, Nicholas J.
Published By: Blackwell Publishing 2012 in Oxford

2011
Chapter Title: Hip Fractures
Book Title: Case-based Geriatrics: A Global Approach
Author List: Friedman, S.M.; Mendelson, D.A.; Kates, S.L.
Edited By: Hirth, V.; Wieland, D.; Dever-Bumba, M.
Published By: McGraw Hill 2011 in New York

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