Leah V. Estrada, PhD, RN, is an Assistant Professor in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a Nurse Scientist in the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Estrada received her PhD from Columbia University, MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, BSN from the Universidad Metropolitana in Puerto Rico and BA from Boston University. She received NIH pre-doctoral funding (T32NR014205/F31NR019519) to examine racial and ethnic differences in nursing home palliative care services and potentially avoidable hospitalizations among residents with severe cognitive impairment using Medicare datasets and NIH post-doctoral funding (T32AG066598) to further study disparities among Latino older adults. Currently, she is exploring how to address the diverse palliative care needs for Latino persons with dementia and their caregivers and is funded by the National Palliative Care Research Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program.
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Hospital