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Alex Lee

Alex Lee Highlights Innovations in Diabetes Care at Long Term Care Data Cooperative and Boston University

Alexandra Lee, PhD, MSPH presented her R01 grant proposal titled "Comparative Effectiveness of SGLT2i and GLP-1RA in Nursing Home Residents with Type 2 Diabetes" at the Long Term Care Data Cooperative's Town Hall Meeting on August 13, 2024. She also delivered a virtual Geriatrics Grand Rounds at Boston University on "Deprescribing in Type 2 Diabetes: Where have we been and where are we going?" on July 26, 2024.

Carla Perissinotto

Carla Perissinotto Quoted in NextAvenue Article

Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS was quoted in an article entitled "How Chronic Loneliness Can Trigger Health Problems" in the NextAvenue. “We focus so much on traditional risk factors. ‘Do you smoke? Are you overweight?’ But we do not ask about loneliness and isolation, which have huge health effects. So, part of it is asking the right questions,” she says.