Malaz A. Boustani, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Dr. Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH, is assistant professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics in the Department of Medicine at Indiana University. He is also center scientist at Indiana University Center for Aging Research and scientist at the Regenstrief Institute.
Dr. Boustani’s main research interest relates to improving the quality of life and care of older adults with acute and chronic cognitive disorders such as delirium and dementia. He is currently designing a system-based approach across the different settings of care, including the community, primary care, hospital, and long-term care settings. Dr. Boustani has been the author of multiple papers with significant policy implications such as the United States Preventive Services Task Force guideline for dementia screening in primary care setting, the only population-based description of mental illness in assisted living. He has also been instrumental in developing a new innovative dementia care standard in long-term care.
As recommended by the Institute of Medicine and with the support of the Beeson Award, Dr. Boustani is planning to integrate information technology into the daily hospital care of older adults with CI to improve the overall safety and quality of the healthcare system. He will conduct a randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of a screening program for CI, combined with a computerized decision support system to reduce the use of potentially inappropriate medications, urinary catheters, and physical restraints among hospitalized older adults with CI.
Dr Boustani obtained his MD from the University of Damascus. He completed the internal medicine residency program at Mt. Sinai Medical center in Cleveland and a three-year geriatric research fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, during which he completed the two-year translational clinical research curriculum fellowship as one of the first scholars in the UNC K30 program. He also attended the core curriculum for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program at UNC and obtained an MPH in health care and prevention from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
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