Fernanda Bellolio, MD, MS

I am a Professor of Emergency Medicine with joint appointments in Health Sciences Research, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, and Department of Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine at Mayo Clinic. I am the Vice-chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging leader for the Clinical Applications theme. Within SAEM, I am a member of the SAEM Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency Department (GRACE) steering committee and a methodologist for the guidelines. I have been a member-at-large for AGEM for the past 2 years and helped develop a Geriatric-ED rotation for students and residents, with our first student rotating in January 2024.

Regarding my education and qualifications, I have a Master’s in Clinical Research and Translational Sciences and completed a 3-year post-doctoral program on Healthcare Delivery dedicated to big data, secondary data analysis, and research methodology as a Kern Scholar at the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. I have 170 peer reviewed publications, 7,774 citations to my articles and an h-index of 49 (i10 index of 116). I have received NIH, AHRQ, and FDA funding. I have mentored more than 95 individuals including medical students, physicians, pharmacists, and scientists. I have been a member of both Enterprise level and local Research Finance Committees at Mayo Clinic, and I am applying as a treasurer for AGEM this upcoming year.