Ramona Rhodes, M.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor in the division of geriatrics at Brown Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital.  Dr. Rhodes completed a clinical geriatrics fellowship and postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown, during which time she received a Haffenreffer Award for excellence in fellowship from the Graduate Medical Education Department of Rhode Island Hospital.  She is also an alumnus of Brown University’s Program in Public Health.  Her research interests include racial and ethnic disparities in the geriatric population, including long-term and end-of-life care.  Her current projects look at access to hospice for African Americans and racial differences in the quality of care patients receive at the end of life. 

Publications:

Murphy JB, Rhodes RL.  Primary prevention for older persons. Medicine and Health Rhode Island 2005; 88:4-7.

Rhodes RL, Nanda A.  Images in Medicine:  Left humerus and intertrochanteric fracture in an elderly man.  Medicine and Health Rhode Island 2005;88-53.

Rhodes RL,Teno JM, Welch LC.  Access to Hospice for African Americans:  Are They Informed About the Option of Hospice?  Journal of Palliative Medicine 2006;9:268-272.

Rhodes RL. Racial disparities in hospice: moving from analysis to intervention. Virtual Mentor. 2006; 8:613-616. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/16650.html. Accessed September 5, 2006.

Rhodes RL, McNicoll L.  The Geriatric Pain Assessment. In Ferri’s Geriatric Clinical Advisor, 1st Ed. T. Wachtel ed.

Rhodes RL, McNicoll L.  The Elderly Female Patient.  In The Five Minute Clinical Consult:  The Womens’ Health Companion. I. Tong, K McGarry eds.