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

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

Medical Specialties

  • Geriatric medicine
  • Internal medicine
  • Telehealth services

Locations

Languages

  • English
  • French

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About Elizabeth A. Phelan

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.

Personal Interests

In her free time Dr. Phelan enjoys French culture, language and literature, classical piano and traveling.

Education and Training

  • Univ. of Washington, School of Public Health & Community Medicine
    Medical education, 1998
  • University of North Carolina
    Residency, Internal Medicine
  • University of North Carolina
    Internship, Internal Medicine
  • Univ. of North Carolina Hospitals
    Teaching Appointment
  • UW - Robert Wood Johnson Scholars
    Fellowship
  • UW - Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine
    Fellowship, Geriatric Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Geriatric Medicine (Int. Med.), 1999, American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Internal Medicine, 1996, American Board of Internal Medicine