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Faculty Consuelo Hopkins Wilkins, M.D. Clinical interests of Consuelo Hopkins Wilkins, M.D., encompass a wide range of older adult health issues. She performs comprehensive geriatric assessments in the outpatient setting at the Center for Advanced Medicine. This clinic serves older adults in the community who may have difficulty with memory, dementia, incontinence, medication issues, falls, osteoporosis, nutrition problems or depression. Wilkins also provides long-term care and subacute care for patients at Barnes Jewish Extended Care where she is the medical director. As medical director, she supervises medical care, education, and assists with quality assurance. Wilkins is an attending physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and an active participant in the training of health professionals at Washington University School of Medicine Research Interests Dr. Wilkins' research efforts include evaluating cognitive function in older adults in the Memory and Aging Project and the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Washington University. She is further studying the barriers to early diagnosis of dementia in African Americans. Her current research also involves the effect of Vitamin D on physical frailty in persons with and without Alzheimer's disease. Contact Information Washington University School of Medicine Publications Wilkins CH and Carr DB. An update on the management of Alzheimer's Disease. March, 2000. Internal Medicine World Reports.
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