Section of Geriatrics
Section Chief, Geriatrics: Scott Sherman, MD, MPH
The Geriatrics section comprises the following:
Bellevue Hospital Geriatric Clinic an inpatient unit at Bellevue, a geriatrics clinic and a home-care VA Medical Center New York, a geriatrics clinic and a falls prevention program at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, and the most recent addition, a geriatric consult service at Tisch Hospital. The nursing home at Goldwater Hospital, on New York City's Roosevelt Island.
In the early 1970s, two programs addressing the needs of disadvantaged elderly patients were launched at NYU: an outreach program for elderly patients living in SRO hotels and a psychiatry outreach program for de-institutionalized elderly patients with dementia.
These two programs were brought together in the Bellevue Hospital Geriatric Clinic when a new Division of Geriatrics was established in 1979 within the Department of Medicine. Over the next twenty years, an in-patient unit at Bellevue was added, followed by a Geriatrics clinic at the VA, a Geriatrics clinic and falls program at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, a home care program at the Manhattan VA Hospital, and a consult team at Tisch University Hospital. The nursing home at Goldwater Hospital also remains an important Division sites.
A Geriatric Fellowship Program was started in 1981, one of the first ten such programs in the United States.