Specialty	Internal Medicine
Subspecialty	Geriatric Medicine - Internal Medicine
Clinical Interests	Geriatric Medicine
Gender	Male
E-mail	albert.siu@mssm.edu
Education and Training	MD, Yale University School of Medicine
	Residency, Internal Medicine, UCLA Medical Center
	Residency, Internal Medicine, UCLA Medical Center
	Fellowship, Clinical Medicine, UCLA Medical Center

Dr. Siu is the Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chairman's Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development.

From 1998-2002, he was Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine and the Director of Adult Primary Care. Dr. Siu graduated from Yale Medical School and went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1985 in Medicine with a joint appointment at RAND. He served as Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UCLA from 1989 until his departure in 1993 to become a Deputy Commissioner in the New York State Department of Health. In 1995, he came to Mount Sinai as a Professor in the Department of Health Policy.

He is a general internist, geriatrician, and health services and policy researcher. He is currently a Senior Associate Editor of Health Services Research and a trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation.

In The News

Dr. Siu discusses health care for Baby Boomers in The Daily News feature The Daily Check Up. View the PDF.

Education and Training	MD, Yale University School of Medicine
	Residency, Internal Medicine, UCLA Medical Center
	Residency, Internal Medicine, UCLA Medical Center
	Fellowship, Clinical Medicine, UCLA Medical Center
Board Certification	Internal Medicine

Specialty	Internal Medicine
Subspecialty	Geriatric Medicine - Internal Medicine
Clinical Interests	Geriatric Medicine
Board Certification	Internal Medicine

Clinical and Health Services Research on Aging and Disability
We are engaged in a series of projects on the impairments and diseases that contribute to poor functional status and disability in aging. This work is curently focused on hip fracture research as a clinical model for disability in aging. The cornerstone of the research is a cohort of patients with hip fracture admitted to four hospitals in the Mount Sinai Health System. Data from this cohort is being used to answer a number of clinical questions relevant to the management of hip fractures and other conditions in the elderly.

Morrison RS, Siu A. Survival in end-stage dementia following acute illness. JAMA 2000 Jul 5; 284(1): 47-52.

Morrison RS, Siu A. A comparison of pain and its treatment in advanced dementia and cognitively intact patients with hip fracture. J Pain Symptom Manage 2000 Apr; 19(4): 240-8.

Hannan EL, Magaziner J, Wang J, Eastwood EA, Silberzweig SB, Gilbert M, Gilbert M, Morrison RS, McLaughlin M, Orosz GM, Siu AL. Mortality and Locomotion Six Months After Hospitalization for Hip Fracture: Risk Factors and Risk Adjusted Hospital Outcomes. JAMA 2001; 285: 2736-2742.

Boal J, Fabacher D, Miller R, Siu A, Kantor B, Flaherty J. Validation of an instrument designed to assess medical student attitudes toward home care. J Am Geriatr Soc 2001 Apr; 49(4): 470-3.

Carney MT, Neugroschl J, Morrison R, Marin D, Siu A. The development and piloting of a capacity assessment tool. J Clin Ethics 2001 Spring; 12(1): 17-23.

Eastwood EA, Magaziner J, Wang J, Silberzweig SB, Hannan EL, Strauss E, Siu AL. Patients with hip fracture: Subgroups and their outcomes. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002; 50: 1240-1249.

Halm EA, Fine MJ, Kapoor WN, Singer DE, Marrie TJ, Siu AL. Instability on hospital discharge increases the risk of adverse outcomes in patients with pneumonia. Arch Intern Med 2002; 162: 1278-1284.

Orosz GM, Hannan EL, Magaziner J, Koval KJ, Gilbert M, Aufses A, Strauss E, Vespe E, Siu AL. Hip Fracture in the older patient: Reasons for Delay in Hospitalization and Timing of Surgical Repair. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002; 50: 1336-1340.

Boockvar K, Halm EA, Litke A, Silberzweig SB, McLaughlin M, Penrod JD, Magaziner J, Koval K, Strauss E, Siu AL. Hospital readmission after hospital discharge for hip fracture: Surgical and nonsurgical causes and effect on outcomes. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003; 51: 399-403.

Halm EA, Magaziner J, Hannan EL, Wang JJ, Silberzweig SB, Boockvar K, Orosz GM, McLaughlin MA, Koval KJ, Siu AL. Frequency and impact of active clinical issues and new impairments on hospital discharge in patients with hip fracture. Arch Intern Med 2003; 163: 108-113.

Morrison RS, Magaziner J, McLaughlin M, Orosz G, Silberzweig S, Koval KJ, Siu AL. The impact of post-operative pain on outcomes following hip fracture. Pain 2003; 103: 303-311.

Morrison RS, Magaziner J, Gilbert M, Koval KJ, McLaughlin M, Orosz G, Strauss E, Siu AL. Relationship between pain and opioid analgesics on the development of delirium following hip fracture. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences 2003; 58: 76-81.

Halm EA, Wang JJ, Boockvar K, Penrod JD, Silberzweig SB, Magaziner J, Koval K, Siu AL. Effects of blood transfusion on functional outcomes in hip fracture. Transfusion 2003;.