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Fall Prevention: A Primary Care Perpsective Addressing Falls in Your Clinical Practice


Elizabeth A. Phelan, M.D., M.S.

Elizabeth A. Phelan, M.D., M.S., is a board certified physician and founder and director of the Fall Prevention Clinic at Harborview, co-director of the UW Center for Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research, associate director of the UW Health Promotion Research Center and affiliate investigator with the Group Health Research Institute. She is also a UW associate professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and adjunct associate professor of Health Services.

Dr. Phelan perceives herself to be a partner with patients in achieving their goals for health.

Dr. Phelan earned her M.D. at the UW. She has been awarded with the Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Program Award, the Pfizer/American Geriatrics Society Foundation for Health in Aging Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research on Health Outcomes in Geriatrics, and has been named the UW Department of Medicine’s Philip and Helen Fialkow Scholar.

School of Medicine
University of Washington


Learning Objectives

By the end of this lecture, you should be able to:

  • Adopt a standard approach for screening your patients for falls.
  • Describe key elements of a falls history and physical exam.
  • Identify at least 3 modifiable risk factors for falls that you can assess with each of your patients.

[From the Winter 2016 Geriatric Healthcare Lecture Series]

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