Jason Karlawish, M.D.

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Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
Fellow, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Outreach: Recruitment Core (Core E, Alzheimer's Disease Center) , University of Pennsylvania
Attending Physician, Penn Memory Center 1 afternoon/week
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty, Penn Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Penn Neurodegenerative Disease Ethics and Policy Program, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Penn Healthy Brain Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Penn Memory Center, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Research Education Component (Core F), Alzheimer's Disease Center, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Penn Center for Public Health Initiative, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine

Contact information
Division of Geriatrics
Ralston-Penn Center
3615 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-898-8997
Fax: 215-573-8684
Education:
B.S. (Honors Program in Medical Education)
Northwestern University, 1987.
M.D. (Medicine)
Northwestern University School of Medicine, 1991.
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Selected Publications

Trojanowski JQ, Arnold SE, Karlawish JH, Naylor M, Brunden KR, Lee VM-Y: A model for improving the treatment and care of Alzheimer patients through interdisciplinary research. Alzheimers Dement 8(6): 564-573, Nov 2012.

Jefferson AL, Carmona H, Gifford K, Sarinana SL, Byerly LK, Cantwell N, Tripodis Y, Karlawish J: Clinical research risk assessment among individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 20(10): 878-886, Oct 2012.

Naylor MD, Karlawish JH, Arnold SE, Khachaturian AS, Khachaturian ZS, Lee VM-Y, Baumgart M, Banerjee S, Beck C, Blennow K, Brookmeyer R, Brunden KR, Buckwalter KC, Comer M, Covinsky K, Feinberg LF, Frisoni G, Green C, Guimaraes RM, Gwyther LP, Hefti FF, Hutton M, Kawas C, Kent DM, Kuller L, Langa KM, Mahley RW, Maslow K, Masters CL, Meier DE, Neumann PJ, Paul SM, Petersen RC, Sager MA, Sano M, Schenk D, Soares H, Sperling RA, Stahl SM, Van Deerlin V, Stern Y, Weir D, Wolk D, Trojanowski JQ.: Advancing Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, treatment, and care: Recommendations from the Ware Invitational Summit. Alzheimers Dement 8(5): 445-452, Sep 2012.

Kesselheim AS, Karlawish J: Biomarkers Unbound - the Supreme Court's Ruling on Diagnostic-Test Patents. N Engl J Med 366(25): 2338-2340, June 2012.

Lui WCV, Lam CWL, Chau CMR, Fung WTA, Wong MLB, Leung TYG, Leung KF, Chiu FKH, Karlawish JHT, Appelbaum PS: Capacity to Make Decisions on Medication Management in Chinese Older Persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer Disease. Int Psychogeriatr 24(7): 1103-11, June 2012.

Tsou AY, Karlawish J, McCluskey L, Xie S, Long J: Predictors of emergent feeding tubes and tracheostomies in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Amyotroph Lateral Scler 13(3): 318-325, May 2012.

Karlawish J: What We Talk About When We Talk About Alzheimer’s Disease. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Human Capital Blog. http://blog.rwjf.org/humancapital/2012/03/12/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-disease/ Mar 2012.

Karlawish J, Sabatino C, Markowitz D, Rubright J, Klem E, Boruch RF.: Bringing the vote to the residents of long-term care facilities: A study of the benefits and challenges of mobile polling. Elect Law J 10(1): 5-14, Mar 2011.

Karlawish J: Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI August 2011.

Meisel ZF, Karlawish J: Narrative vs Evidence-Based Medicine-- And, Not Or. JAMA 306(18): 2022-2023, November 2011.

Flory J, Karlawish J: The Prompted Optional Randomization Trial: A New Design for Comparative Effectiveness Research. Am J Public Health 102(12): e8-10, December 2012.

Sperling RA, Karlawish J, Johnson KA: Preclinical Alzheimer disease—the challenges ahead. Nat Rev Neurol 9(1): 54-58, Jan 2013.

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