Patrick P Coll, MD

Academic Title: Professor Family Medicine and Medicine

Other Titles or Clinical Leadership Positions: Associate Director for Clinical Program, COA, UCHC. Medical Director, Seabury Retirement Community, Bloomfield CT. Medical Director, Laurel Gardens, Avon, CT. Assistant Medical Director, Riverside Healthcare Center, East Hartford, CT. Clinical Co-ordinator, Qualidigim, Middletown, CT.

Clinical Affiliations: Dowling South, UCHC. Seabury, Laurel Gardens, Riverside.

Areas of Special Clinical Interest: Alzheimer's Disease. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.

Research Interests:

Quality Improvement, I am working with Qualidigim on a state wide effort to improve end of life care in CT hospitals………Long Term Care, I have recently studied the withdrawal of thyroid hormone therapy in nursing home patients and plan to expand this line of work to look at the impact of thyroid hormone therapy on bone health…………

Geriatrics Practice Management, I have been collecting data on the impact of a geriatrics practice on the finances of an academic health center and will be presenting an abstract on the topic at the 2002 annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society.

Selected Publications:

Coll PP, Abourizk NN, Sucessful Withdrawal of Thyroid Hormone Therapy in Nursing Home Patients. J Am Board Fam Pract 2000; 13: 403-7

Contact Information:
Phone: 860-679-4548
Fax: 860-679-1307
E-mail: coll@nso1.uchc.edu