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Natalia Festa, MD, PhD

Biography

Natalia Festa, MD, is a physician trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and geriatrics at Yale. She completed her master’s degree as a fellow within the Yale Program on Aging and National Clinician Scholars Program.

She earned her medical degree at Stanford University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard College. Her research focuses on identifying modifiable regulatory and health services factors that can improve person-centered aging outcomes for nursing home residents. Her research also focuses on the identification of dementia using routinely collected healthcare data.

Titles

  • Assistant Professor in Medicine (Geriatrics)

Education & Training

  • PhD
    Yale University, Investigative Medicine
  • MHS
    Yale University, National Clinician Scholars Program (2023)
  • Clinical Fellow
    Yale New Haven Hospital (2021)
  • Intern and Resident
    Massachusetts General Hospital (2020)
  • MD
    Stanford University (2017)
  • AB
    Harvard College (2010)

Additional Information

Biography

Natalia Festa, MD, is a physician trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and geriatrics at Yale. She completed her master’s degree as a fellow within the Yale Program on Aging and National Clinician Scholars Program.

She earned her medical degree at Stanford University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard College. Her research focuses on identifying modifiable regulatory and health services factors that can improve person-centered aging outcomes for nursing home residents. Her research also focuses on the identification of dementia using routinely collected healthcare data.

Titles

  • Assistant Professor in Medicine (Geriatrics)

Education & Training

  • PhD
    Yale University, Investigative Medicine
  • MHS
    Yale University, National Clinician Scholars Program (2023)
  • Clinical Fellow
    Yale New Haven Hospital (2021)
  • Intern and Resident
    Massachusetts General Hospital (2020)
  • MD
    Stanford University (2017)
  • AB
    Harvard College (2010)

Additional Information