ShelleyRMcDonaldDOPhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Duke University Medical Center

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Shelley McDonald, DO, PhD based in Durham, NC, specializes in geriatrics and serves as an Assistant Professor at Duke University Hospital. She completed her fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Duke University Hospital and her residency in Internal Medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine. Her expertise includes nutrition and perioperative medicine.

Duke University HospitalFellowship, Geriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine), 2011 - 2012
Texas A&M College of Medicine-Scott and White Medical Center (Temple)Residency, Internal Medicine, 2004 - 2007
Texas College of Osteopathic MedicineClass of 2004

PubMed

Facilitators and barriers to eliciting physical function goals before and after surgery: A qualitative study with clinicians.
Theresa Coles, Laura S Mkumba, Leslie Zapata Leiva, Kate Plyler, Shelley R McDonald
Patient Education and Counseling. 2024-02-01
A Sobering Tale of Missed Opportunities for Advance Care Planning-Now Is the Time for Action.
Hadiza S Kazaure, Shelley R McDonald, Sandhya A Lagoo-Deenadayalan
JAMA Surgery. 2022-10-01
31 citations
Geriatric Preoperative Optimization: A Review
Kahli Zietlow, Serena Wong, Mitchell T. Heflin, Shelley R. McDonald, Robert Sickeler
The American Journal of Medicine. 2021-08-18

Journal Articles

Development and Validation of Machine Learning Models to Identify High-Risk Surgical Patients Using Automatically Curated Electronic Health Record Data (Pythia): A Ret...
Shelley R McDonald, Mitchell T Heflin, Madhav Swaminathan, PLoS One
Incorporating Shared Decision Making into Perioperative Care of Older Adults.
Adam, M., McDonald, S.R, Heflin, M.T., and Lagoo-Deenadayalan, S.A, Current Surgery Reports, 4(8), 1-10.

Books/Book Chapters

Beverage Impacts on Health and Nutrition.
Chapter: Oral Nutritional Supplementation Using Beverages for Older Adults.
Page 207 - 221McDonald, S. R.Editors: Wilson, T. & Temple, N.J..Springer Press., New York.Edition 2nd,2016