Irene Hamrick MD, FAAFP, AGSF, CMD
Professor, Geriatrics Division; Director, Department of Family and Community Medicine; Martha Betty Semmons Endowed Chair in Geriatric Medicine; and Chief of the Office of Geriatric Medicine at University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati, OhioDr. Hamrick is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine. She earned her BS in Nursing at Western Carolina University, summa cum laude, and was inducted to Sigma Theta Tau. She attended East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine and was inducted to Alpha Omega Alpha, completing her residency and geriatric fellowship there. She remained at Brody as faculty in the Department of Family Medicine, where she served as Director of the Geriatric Division 2008-2011 and Director of the Geriatric Fellowship 2004-2010. She was the Geriatric Services Director at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she developed a teaching nursing home in 2011-2019. She now is Chair of the Office of Geriatrics at the University of Cincinnati, Medical Director of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center VA Nursing Home, and Inaugural Section Chief of Geriatrics, Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine, Cincinnati VA.
Dr. Hamrick has been recognized for educational leadership, administration and outstanding teaching and mentoring. Her research activities include health disparities in osteoporosis, falls, dementia, computer simulation for home safety, diabetes, and dehydration. She is the recent past Chair of the Health Systems Innovation-Economics and Technology Committee for the American Geriatrics Society.
When not working, Dr. Hamrick enjoys snow skiing, jogging, bicycling, social dancing, and traveling. She is originally from Germany and likes practicing her German whenever possible. Her children live in Germantown, Maryland, and Munich, Germany.
Disclosures
Irene Hamrick, MD, reports receiving honorarium from PracticeUpdate.
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Association of Tramadol With All-Cause Mortality Among Patients With Osteoarthritis
- Effectiveness of Tai Ji Quan vs Multimodal and Stretching Exercise Interventions for Reducing Injurious Falls
- 2019 Updated AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults
- Association of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older People in Primary Care With Hospital Admission
- 2018 Top Stories in Primary Care: New Practice Guidelines on Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Association of Concomitant Use of Cholinesterase Inhibitors or Memantine With Cognitive Decline in Clinical Trials of Alzheimer's Disease
- Reports From the AAFP FMX Conference: On Responding to the Opioid Crisis
- Reports From the AAFP FMX Conference: Top 10 Updates in EBM
- Reports From the AAFP FMX Conference: Stroke
- Reports From the AAFP FMX Conference: Mindful Engagement With Our Work: Skills to Address Burnout, Resilience, and Wellbeing