Lona currently serves as Associate Division Chief for Clinical and Translation Research for the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine. Additionally, she serves as Associate Director for Translational Research for the Geriatrics Center. Dr. Mody is one of very few internists in this country with an expertise in aging populations, epidemiology, an active research laboratory in microbiology and a translational research agenda focused on vulnerable aging population. Dr. Mody’s seminal research contribution is to utilize innovative clinical and molecular epidemiologic methods to define institutional, healthcare worker and patient-specific risk factors leading to infections and colonization with multi-drug resistant organisms in older adults and to design interventions that reduce these adverse events. She has conducted numerous patient-oriented primary data collection studies, survey based research projects and led implementation projects that have significantly advanced the field of long-term care infection prevention. She has mentored several junior faculty, fellows, post-doctoral students and residents in conducting clinical, epidemiologic as well as laboratory-based research projects and has had an impressive record of uninterrupted NIH funding since 2003. In 2015, she received a 5-year NIH K24 Midcareer Investigator Award to mentor junior faculty in translational aging, infectious diseases and health outcomes research. Her interest in mentoring is further reflected in developing and leading career development seminars at various national meetings and her mentees being recognized by research awards. She has held several leadership positions at the American Geriatrics Society and is nationally active in the American Geriatrics Society, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Please help us in congratulating Dr. Lona Mody on her wonderful success in earning the “Amanda Sanford Hickey Collegiate Professorship in Internal Medicine.”