Thomas M. Gill

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Research topics

• Medicine
• Physical therapy
• Gerontology
• Internal medicine
• Psychiatry
• Demography
• Surgery
• Emergency medicine
• Environmental health
• Immunology

Selected publications

• A Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Strategy to Prevent Serious Fall Injuries

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2020 · 223 citations

  BACKGROUND: Injuries from falls are major contributors to complications and death in older adults. Despite evidence from efficacy trials that many falls can be prevented, rates of falls resulting in injury have not declined. METHODS: We conducted a pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention that included risk assessment and individualized plans, administered by specially trained nurses, to prevent fall injuries. A total of 86 primary care p…

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• Intrinsic Capacity Predicts Negative Health Outcomes in Older Adults

  The Journals of Gerontology Series A · 2021 · 134 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND: Monitoring trajectories of intrinsic capacity (IC) in older adults has been suggested by the World Health Organization as a means to inform prevention to avoid or delay negative health outcomes. Due to a lack of longitudinal studies, it is currently unclear how IC changes over time and whether repeatedly measured IC predicts negative health outcomes. METHODS: Based on 4 751 repeated observations of IC (range = 0-100) during 21 years of follow-up among 754 older adults 70 and older, w…

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• Disability and Recovery After Hospitalization for Medical Illness Among Community‐Living Older Persons: A Prospective Cohort Study

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020 · 72 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  OBJECTIVES: To determine for each basic, instrumental, and mobility activity after hospitalization for acute medical illness: (1) disability prevalence immediately before and monthly for 6 months after hospitalization; (2) disability incidence 1 month after hospitalization; and (3) recovery time from incident disability during months 2 to 6 after hospitalization. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: New Haven, Connecticut. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 515 community-living persons, mean age 82.…

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• Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Functional Well-being in Community-Living Older Persons

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2021 · 64 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Importance: Neighborhood disadvantage is a novel social determinant of health that could adversely affect the functional well-being of older persons. Deficiencies in resource-poor environments can potentially be addressed through social and public health interventions. Objective: To evaluate whether estimates of active and disabled life expectancy differ on the basis of neighborhood disadvantage after accounting for individual-level socioeconomic characteristics and other prognostic factors. Des…

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• Effect of Structured, Moderate Exercise on Kidney Function Decline in Sedentary Older Adults

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2022 · 63 citations

  Importance: Observational evidence suggests that higher physical activity is associated with slower kidney function decline; however, to our knowledge, no large trial has evaluated whether activity and exercise can ameliorate kidney function decline in older adults. Objective: To evaluate whether a moderate-intensity exercise intervention can affect the rate of estimated glomerular filtration rate per cystatin C (eGFRCysC) change in older adults. Design, Setting, and Participants: This ancillary…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant K07AG043587

  NIH · $645k · 2020

• Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Fall Injury Prevention Strategy

  NIH · $34.8M · 2014–2022

• Yale Training Program in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging-related Research

  NIH · $7.5M · 2001–2031

Frequent coauthors

• Marco Pahor

  University of Florida

  397 shared

• Jack M. Guralnik

  University of Maryland, Baltimore

  351 shared

• Anthony P. Marsh

  Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System

  235 shared

• Timothy S. Church

  Pennington Biomedical Research Center

  230 shared

• ­Abby C. King

  Stanford University

  216 shared

• Roger A. Fielding

  Tufts University

  199 shared

• Heather Allore

  Yale University

  190 shared

• Stephanie A. Studenski

  University of Pittsburgh

  169 shared

Education

• M.D., Pritzker School of Medicine

  University of Chicago

  1987

Awards & honors

• Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Awa…
• RWJ Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award
• Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigatio…
• Ewald W. Busse Research Award in the Biomedical Sciences
• Joseph T. Freeman Award from the Gerontological Society of A…

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