{{Short description|American physician}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Mary Tinetti | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = <!--{{birth date |YYYY|MM|DD}}--> | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = physician | workplaces = Yale University | patrons = | alma_mater = University of Michigan, University of Rochester | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = T. Franklin Williams | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = MacArthur Fellows Program | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }} '''Mary Tinetti''' is an American physician, and Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and Director of the Yale Program on Aging.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.med.yale.edu/intmed/faculty/tinetti.html |title=Mary e. Tinetti, Internal Medicine: Yale School of Medicine |accessdate=2010-03-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091231132640/http://www.med.yale.edu/intmed/faculty/tinetti.html |archivedate=2009-12-31 }}</ref>
==Life== She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a B.A. in 1973, and from the University of Michigan Medical School with an M.D. in 1978. She was a resident at the University of Minnesota. She studied on a geriatric fellowship at the University of Rochester with Dr. T. Franklin Williams. She pioneered the study of morbidity due to falls by elderly people, and investigated risk-reduction strategies that were both effective and cost-effective.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id%3D6896 |title=Yale Aging Expert and Evolutionary Biologist Receive "Genius" Grants |accessdate=2010-03-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609184203/http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6896 |archivedate=2010-06-09 }}</ref>
==Awards== *2009 MacArthur Fellows Program<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.5458043/k.936A/Mary_Tinetti.htm|title=MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org}}</ref> *2010 Maxwell Pollack Award *2017 Kent Award
==Works== * [http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/331/13/821 "A Multifactorial Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Falling among Elderly People Living in the Community"], ''The New England Journal of Medicine'', Volume 331:821-827, September 29, 1994, Number 13
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==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13LCLKpSKqY Mary Tinetti, 2009 MacArthur Fellow] *[http://www.geron.org/Membership/member-spotlight/486 "Q&A with 2009 MacArthur Fellow Mary E. Tinetti, MD, from New Haven, CT.", ''Gerontology Society of America'']
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