Sandhya Anand Lagoo-deenadayalan MD, PhD, FACS

Dr. Lagoo-Deenadayalan is an Associate Professor of Surgery with Tenure and Senior Fellow in the Center for Aging and Human Development. She was invited to join the Geriatrics Task Force of the American College of Surgeons in 2006. In 2007, these efforts led to the establishment of a Surgical Forum dedicated to geriatric surgery at the ACS Clinical Congress. Subsequently, she served on the Expert Panel for the “Developing Quality Indicators to Improve the Care in Elderly Patients” project. She received R-21 grant funding (2007-2010) from NIH/NIA that addressed aging and the immune response in sepsis. She received a Geriatrics for Speciality Residents Award along with Dr. Mitch Heflin and developed a Geriatrics curriculum for the general surgery residency program at Duke Hospital. This has led to several publications with surgery residents. She has also mentored Duke medical students and helped study predictors of complications in older surgical patients with comorbidities.