Lauren E. Ferrante MD, MHS

Dr. Ferrante is a Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine physician at the Yale School of Medicine who conducts clinical outcomes research at the interface of critical care medicine and geriatrics. The overarching goal of her research program is to understand and improve the functional outcomes of older ICU patients. Her work has demonstrated the importance of an older person's pre-ICU functional trajectory on post-ICU disability and mortality, identified novel factors associated with functional recovery after a critical illness, and clarified the role of common pre-ICU vulnerability factors (frailty and cognitive impairment) on post-ICU outcomes among older adults. Dr. Ferrante is passionate about integrating geriatrics principles into critical care medicine and increasing collaboration between the subspecialties and geriatrics. To that end, she co-founded/co-chairs the Aging & Geriatrics Working Group of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and co-chairs the Medical Subspecialties Section of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). She is currently funded by a Beeson award from the National Institute on Aging and the Francis Family Foundation. From a clinical perspective, Dr. Ferrante is an attending physician in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) of Yale-New Haven Hospital, where she is the physician leader of STEPS-ICU early mobilization program.