Danelle Cayea, MD, MS

• Director, Daniel and Jeannette Hendin Schapiro Geriatric Medical Education Center
• Director, Medicine Core Clerkship

Associate Professor of Medicine

Daniel and Jeannette Hendin Schapiro Geriatric Medical Education Center

Elder care, Geriatrics, Medical education

Danelle Cayea Lab

• Researchers in the Danelle Cayea Lab develop and evaluate curriculum that teaches the care of older adults to residents and medical students. Our work includes older adults with complex heath issues who receive care in hospital and ambulatory environments.

Dr. Cayea’s research focuses on developing and evaluating curriculum aimed at teaching internal medicine to residents and medical students about the care of older adults—including those with complex heath issues—in the hospital and ambulatory settings.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gnaTy2IAAAAJ

• Cayea D, Eckstrom E, Christmas C. “Update in geriatric medicine.” J Gen Intern Med. 2012 Mar;27(3):371-5. doi: 10.1007/s11606-011-1876-5. Epub 2011 Oct 25

• Cayea D, Leff B. Weight loss. IN: Medicine Essentials for Clerkship Students, Third edition. ACP Press, Philadelphia, 2011

• Cayea D. “Falls” In: Oxford Handbook of Geriatric Medicine. Oxford University Press. New York. 2010, pp 82-86

• Chang A, Fernandez H, Cayea D, Chheda S, Paniagua M, Eckstrom E, Day H. “Complexity in graduate medical education: a collaborative education agenda for internal medicine and geriatric medicine.” J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Jun;29(6):940-6. doi: 10.1007/s11606-013-2752-2

• Karani R, Fromme HB, Cayea D, Muller D, Schwartz A, Harris IB. “How medical students learn from residents in the workplace: a qualitative study.” Acad Med. 2014 Mar;89(3):490-6. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000141

• Levine R, Cayea D, Shochet R, Wright S. “A mid-clerkship crisis: Lessons learned from advising a medical student with career indecision.” Acad Med 2010; 85(4):654-659

• Levine RB, Mechaber HF, Reddy ST, Cayea D, Harrison RA. "’A good career choice for women’: female medical students' mentoring experiences: a multi-institutional qualitative study.” Academic Medicine. Apr 2013, Vol. 88, No. 4: 527-534

• Levine, RB, Shochet RB, Cayea D, Ashar BH, Stewart RW, Wright SM. “Measuring medical students’ sense of community and satisfaction with a structured advising program.” Intl J Medical Education 2011; 2:125-132

• Mahoney K, Cayea D, Li Q, Gelber A. A Handy Clue to Uncover the Occult Source of Weight Loss. In press. Am J Med 

• Weiner D, Cayea D. “Low Back Pain and Its Contributors in Older Adults: A Practical Approach to Evaluation and Treatment.” In: Pain in Older Persons. IASP Press. Seattle, 2005, pp 329-354

• Wendel VI, Durso SC, Cayea D, Arbaje AI, Tanner E. “Implementing staff nurse geriatric education in the acute hospital setting.” Medsurg Nurs 2010; 19(5):274-280

• The Institute for Excellence in Education Education Scholarship Award, 2024
• Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine Louis N. Pangaro, MD, Educational Program Development Award, 1/1/19
• Professors' Award for Excellence in Teaching, Clinical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1/1/18
• High Value Practice Academic Alliance High Value Care Curriculum Educational Excellence Award, 1/1/17
• Elected to Fellowship in the Academy on Communication in Healthcare, 1/1/16
• The Institute for Excellence in Educations Award for Faculty Contribution in Education (Teaching, Less Than Ten Years on Faculty), Johns Hopkins Medicine, 1/1/14
• Berkheimer Faculty Education Scholarship ("Improving Medical Students' Practice of High Value Care"), Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education, 1/1/14
• American Geriatrics Society Outstanding Junior Clinician Educator of the Year Award, 1/1/14
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association, 1/1/11