Jennifer Muniak, M.D.

Professional Background

Jennifer Muniak, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Aging at the University of Rochester. In addition to her faculty appointment, Dr. Muniak is a busy clinician caring for patients at Highland Hospital and the Highlands at Brighton Nursing Home. She also is a passionate medical educator, teaching in multiple venues to UR Medical Students and Residents in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Orthopedics, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. More recently Dr. Muniak was awarded the highly competitive Geriatric Academic Career Award (GACA), which has expanded her reach in providing innovative Geriatrics education at both at the regional and national level. She is having a regional impact as an educator in Project ECHO at the University of Rochester, a telelearning format which teaches best practices to nursing home workers throughout the Finger Lakes Region. She is also working with senior leaders to make the University of Rochester an Age Friendly Health System, an initiative which will ensure that every older adult treated by the U of R receives the highest quality, evidence-based care. At the national level, Dr. Muniak sits on the Ethics Committee of the American Geriatrics Society and is actively designing educational curriculum for the society membership.