Department of Medicine

University of Pittsburgh

Susan Hardy, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Office: 3471 Fifth Avenue
Kaufmann Building, Suite 500
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
Phone: 412-692-2360
Fax: 412-692-2370
E-mail: seh46@pitt.edu
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1992
MD, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, 1996
PhD in Investigative Medicine, Yale University, 2004
Training
Internal Medicine Residency, Duke University Medical Center, 1999
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars, Program, Research Fellowship, Yale University, 2001
Geriatric Fellowship, Yale University, 2004
Area of Specialization/Research Interest  
Disability in activities of daily living, functional trajectories among older persons, and recovery
from disability. She is particularly interested
in recurrent disability and disability in the
setting of acute medical events.
 
Profile
Dr. Hardy is a Diplomate in Internal Medicine and has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine. She is interested in the care of vulnerable older adults and in functional trajectories and recovery from disability among frail older persons. Dr. Hardy provides long term care and subacute care to older adults in skilled nursing facilities and provides care to geriatrics patients on the geriatric medicine service at Montefiore University Hospital.Dr. Hardy is supported by a prestigious Paul Beeson Career Development Award from NIA to study the effect of medical instability, delirium, and depression on functional recovery in nursing home-based, post-acute care. To get a nationally representative picture of post-acute care, she also is using data from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to examine the predictors and outcomes of post-acute care in older adults.
Recent Grants
Title: Post-acute Care and Functional Recovery after Hospitalization
Role: PI
Amount:
Funding Agency: NIH
Start Year: 2008
End Year: 2011
Title: Functional Recovery in Post-Acute Care
Role: PI
Amount:
Funding Agency: AFAR
Start Year: 2008
End Year: 2013
Title: Functional Recovery in Post-Acute Care
Role: PI
Amount:
Funding Agency: NIH
Start Year: 2008
End Year: 2013
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