Dr. Gonzalgo is an Instructor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and is a core faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, West. She is trained in internal medicine, geriatric medicine and epidemiology. Her main interests include 1) active life expectancy – redefining what it means to be “active” in late life, as well as the methodological challenges of calculating healthy life expectancies using multistate modeling in existing longitudinal databases, and 2) health disparities.
Dr. Gonzalgo studied Integrative Biology as an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley. She received an M.P.H. in Community Health Sciences from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and her M.D. from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She trained in the general internal medicine residency at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and completed a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2005. Dr. Gonzalgo is currently the Stutt Scholar for the Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Foundation for her work on disability transitions and frailty in older men with and without prostate cancer. Dr. Gonzalgo also receives support as a Health Disparities Scholar from the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities for her work in Hispanic EPESE, examining the disablement process in older Mexican Americans.
older people, disability, mobility limitation, active life expectancy, health disparities
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