Home-Based Medical Care for Older Adults

Jessica Colburn, MDAssistant Professor of MedicineJohns Hopkins School of MedicineDivision of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 2200Baltimore, MD 21224Bruce Leff, MDProfessor of MedicineJohns Hopkins School of MedicineDivision of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 7000Baltimore, MD 21224Jennifer Hayashi, MDMedical Director, MedStar House Call Program5601 Loch Raven BoulevardSmyth Building, Suite 201Baltimore, MD 21239Mattan Schuchman, MDMedical Director, Johns Hopkins Home-Based Medicine5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 2200Baltimore, MD 21224Dr. Bruce Leff is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in the department of health policy and management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Leff is an internationally recognized leader and researcher in the development, evaluation and dissemination of novel models of care for older adults, including the Hospital at Home, Guided Care, geriatric service line models and medical house call practices. In addition, his research interests extend to issues related to multi-morbidity, performance measurement and case-mix issues. He has a strong interest in health policy issues, is a Health and Aging Policy Fellow of the American Political Science Association, and has served on multiple technical expert panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  In 2016, he published Geriatric Home Based Medical Care with Springer Science+Business Media, which remains the only authoritative texts on the subject.