Positions

Assistant Professor / Nurse Practitioner

Medicine-Geriatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Addresses

Ben Taub House Calls (Clinic)

9250 Kirby Drive
Houston, TX 77054
United States
Phone: (713) 814-4505

Valbona Geriatric Clinic (Clinic)

6630 DeMoss Drive
Houston, TX 77074
United States
Phone: (713) 272-2600

Education

MS from Columbia University

New York

BSN from University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston

Certifications

Adult Nurse Practitioner

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

Texas Board of Nursing

Professional Statement

My expertise is primary care for home bound and mobile elders. My passion is serving elders in underserved communities. In my work on the Ben Taub House Calls team, I provide home-based primary care, transition of care visits, and home safety evaluations. The patients who I see doing house calls reside in historically impoverished and underserved areas. I manage my patients’ chronic and acute medical problems at home, preventing hospitalizations.

My work at the Valbona Geriatric Clinic serving mobile older adults includes advanced care planning and screening in addition to managing the multiple comorbidities of my patients.

I have precepted nurse practitioner students, residents, and geriatric fellows. Weekly I provide an interprofessional training experience for medical students and pharmacy students. My hope is that a single day of house calls in the communities I serve illuminate a holistic approach to geriatric medical care but demonstrate how social determinates of health impact elders.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Ferrari A, Dobecka A, Boynton J, Brierre E, Hall K, Omolayo T, Sharfman G, Waterhouse A, Major A "Reducing Emergency Department Visits of Homebound Older Adults through After-Hours Phone Interventions." Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society. 2016;