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Jessica Lee, MD, MS

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Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Director/Co-Director, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Location

Houston, TX

Dr. Jessica Lee received her MD and MS in Clinical Science from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, completed her Internal Medicine residency at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and finished a two-year Geriatric Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Joan and Stanford Alexander Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at UTHealth and the Medical Director of the Harris Health LBJ House Call Service which provides primary and palliative care to homebound adults. Her research interests are in clinical interventions to increase resiliency in older adults to help them maintain their functional independence at home. She was recently awarded a K23 Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging and has been the PI or Co-I on several studies evaluating frailty, social determinants of health, and COVID-19 in older adults.

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1. #RecruitOlderAdults: Use of social media to recruit older adults for clinical trials.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 72:297-299. 2023
2. Serum Concentrations of Losartan Metabolites Correlate With Improved Physical Function in a Pilot Study of Prefrail Older Adults.. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences. 77:2356-2366. 2022
3. Equitable implementation of innovations to promote successful aging in place.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 71:683-688. 2022
4. Impact of COVID-19 on homebound adults receiving home-based primary care.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 71:1653-1656. 2022
5. Reimagining cross-sector collaborations post-pandemic to optimize care for vulnerable homebound older adult populations.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 70:1939-1941. 2022
6. Measures of Frailty in Homebound Older Adults.. Southern medical journal. 115:276-279. 2022
7. Medical student-led social phone calls with elder mistreatment victims: Changes in loneliness, depression, and perspectives of aging.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 70:1876-1878. 2022
8. Hospital readmissions after stroke in patients with and without dementia and undergone gastrostomy tube placement.. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics. -. 2021
9. Intranasal Oxytocin Improves Lean Muscle Mass and Lowers LDL Cholesterol in Older Adults with Sarcopenic Obesity: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 22:1877-1882.e2. 2021
10. The Association of Economic Outcome and Geriatric Syndromes among Older Adults with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).. Journal of health economics and outcomes research. 7:175-181. 2020
11. Stemming the Tide of Elder Mistreatment: A Medical School-State Agency Collaborative.. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 95:540-545. 2020
12. Capacity evaluations for adult protective services: videoconference or in-person interviews.. Journal of elder abuse & neglect. 32:121-133. 2020
13. Transthyretin (Prealbumin) and the Ambiguous Nature of Malnutrition.. Journal of hospital medicine. 14:257-258. 2019
14. Feasibility of intervention in elder self-neglecters: Setting the stage for future research.. Journal of elder abuse & neglect. 30:223-235. 2018
15. Frailty in self-neglecting older adults: A secondary analysis.. Journal of elder abuse & neglect. 28:152-62. 2016
16. Serum Albumin and Prealbumin in Calorically Restricted, Nondiseased Individuals: A Systematic Review.. The American journal of medicine. 128:1023.e1-22. 2015
17. Pharmacological vasodilation improves insulin-stimulated muscle protein anabolism but not glucose utilization in older adults.. Diabetes. 59:2764-71. 2010
18. Insulin stimulates human skeletal muscle protein synthesis via an indirect mechanism involving endothelial-dependent vasodilation and mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 signaling.. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism. 95:3848-57. 2010
19. The making of a self-neglect severity scale.. Journal of elder abuse & neglect. 18:13-23. 2006