Sharon K. Inouye

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Sharon K. Inouye
Born
Culver City, California, USA
Spouse(s)
Stephen Lewis Helfand
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(m. 1983)​
Academic background
EducationBA, English literature, 1977, Pomona College
MD, 1981, UCSF Medical Center
MPH, 1989, Yale University
Academic work
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
Yale University

Sharon Kiyomi Inouye is an American geriatrician. She is the Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, as well as a Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

During her tenure at Yale, Inouye was a tenured professor of medicine, director of the Yale Mentored Clinical Research Scholars Program, co-director of the Yale Program on Aging and Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, director of the Yale Mentorship Program in Patient-Oriented Research on Aging, and director of Patient-Oriented Research for the Yale Investigative Medicine Program (K30).

Early life and education[]

Inouye was born to parents Lily Ann and Mitsuo Inouye in Culver City, California.[1] She attended Pomona College for her undergraduate degree where she majored in English literature before studying medicine at the UCSF Medical Center.[2] As a senior resident in internal medicine at Moffitt Hospital in 1983, she married neurobiologist Stephen Lewis Helfand.[1]

Career[]

Upon completing her medical degree, Inouye joined the faculty at Yale University from 1985 to 2005.[3] As a professor at Yale, she focused on translating clinical investigation from its theoretical basis to practical applications that will improve clinical care and quality of life for older persons.[4] In the 1990s, she focused her research on preventing delirium amongst the elderly in hospitals. As such, she developed the Confusion Assessment Method as a new tool for the identification of delirium.[5] In 1999, Yale-New Haven Hospital adopted her prevention methods such as warm milk and backrubs as a routine method.[6] She also developed the Hospitals Elder Life Program (HELP) to prevent delirium in hospitalized patients.[7] By 2002, Inouye was serving as Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research and was the Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair at Yale. As a result of her research, she was elected a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.[8] Inouye was then awarded the 2003 Ewald W. Busse Research Award in Biomedical Sciences in recognition of her achievements.[4] She was also appointed co-director of the Yale Program on Aging and Yale's Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.[9]

Inouye left Yale University in 2005 to join the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, and Hebrew SeniorLife. In 2012, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.[10] A few years later, Inouye was recognized by Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch as being amongst the world's most influential scientific minds for 2014.[11] In October 2016, Inouye co-received a federal grant to help establish an interdisciplinary Network for Investigation of Delirium across the United States.[12] Later that year, she also earned the M. Powell Lawton Award for her significant contributions in gerontology.[13] In 2017, Inouye was named a 2017 Health and Aging Policy Fellow and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.[14]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Inouye was selected as the Next Avenue 2020 Influencer in Aging, in part because of her work advocating for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Dr. S. L. Helfand Wed To Dr. Sharon Inouye". The New York Times. August 29, 1983. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  2. ^ "Meet our Overall Principal Investigator: An Interview with Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH" (PDF). Marcus Institute For Aging Research. May 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  3. ^ "Who We Are: Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H." Marcus Institute For Aging Research. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  4. ^ a b Peart, Karen (February 4, 2004). "Three Yale Researchers Win National Awards in Aging". Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  5. ^ Inouye, S. K.; Van Dyck, C. H.; Alessi, C. A.; Balkin, S.; Siegal, A. P.; Horwitz, R. I. (December 15, 1990). "Clarifying confusion: the confusion assessment method. A new method for detection of delirium". Annals of Internal Medicine. 113 (12): 941–948. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-113-12-941. PMID 2240918.
  6. ^ Knox, Richard A. (August 17, 1999). "Delirium in hospitalization getting attention". Daily World. Retrieved October 18, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Strijbos, M. J.; Steunenberg, B.; Van Der Mast, R. C.; Inouye, S. K.; Schuurmans, M. J. (2013). "Design and methods of the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), a multicomponent targeted intervention to prevent delirium in hospitalized older patients: efficacy and cost-effectiveness in Dutch health care". BMC Geriatrics. 13: 78. doi:10.1186/1471-2318-13-78. PMC 3724594. PMID 23879226.
  8. ^ "Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH". American Society for Clinical Investigation. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  9. ^ Hathaway, William (September 30, 2003). "PREVENTING DELIRIUM". Hartford Courant. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  10. ^ "Sharon Inouye Elected to Institute of Medicine in Washington". Rafu Shimpo. October 18, 2012. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  11. ^ "BIDMC researchers named among 'the most influential scientific minds'". Eurekalert. August 21, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  12. ^ "Dr. Inouye Awarded Federal Grant to Develop Worldwide Delirium Research Network". Hospital Elder Life Program. October 7, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  13. ^ "Dr. Inouye Earns GSA's M. Powell Lawton Award". Hospital Elder Life Program. December 5, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  14. ^ "Dr. Sharon Inouye Appointed to Prestigious National Fellowships". Hebrew Senior Life. January 27, 2017. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  15. ^ "Grantee in the News: Sharon Inouye selected as Next Avenue 2020 Influencer in Aging". American Federation for Aging Research. November 20, 2020. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
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