Grand Rounds: Integrative Geriatrics: Clinical Approaches to Healthy Aging                     

She is a clinician educator, teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. In 2020 she was awarded the prestigious BWH Department of Medicine Clinical Education and Research Scholars (CERS) fellowship. Her academic work is focused on the dissemination of geriatrics medical education to Internal Medicine residents and strategies to promote resident well-being.

Zeina N. Chemali, MD, MPH was born in Beirut, Lebanon and attended American University of Beirut/Lebanese University to complete her medical education (1983–1991). She is double boarded in Neurology and Psychiatry after extensive training at Harvard hospitals in Boston, MA. Dr. Chemali co-founded the Center for Optimal Brain Function (COBF) at the BWH in 2003 and served as its Chief Medical Officer from 2003–2007. Currently, Dr. Chemali is the Director of Neuropsychiatry Clinics and Fellowship and Unit Chief at the McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Harvard Medical
School. Her clinical interests and expertise revolve around the practice of neuropsychiatry/behavioral neurology and brain health with a special interest in early onset dementia. Patients come from across the country and internationally, seeking her expertise in behavior
and brain health. Dr. Chemali has conducted fieldwork in under-privileged worldwide
regions, particularly in Africa, the Middle East, and South America, advancing brain
health training to mid-level professionals, establishing dual residency programs in
neurology-psychiatry, and running capacity-building programs in aging and Alzheimer’s
disease.

Steven J. Atlas, MD received his degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and completed a fellowship in general medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Atlas is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at MGH where he is a practicing primary care physician. He is the Director of the primary care practice-based research and quality network and the Medical Director implementing population health management within primary care practices at MGH. He is a medical editor for Healthwise, a non-profit company with a mission to help people make better health decisions, and with UpToDate, a comprehensive evidence-based electronic clinical information resource for clinicians.