Timothy F. Platts-Mills, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Clinical Research; Co-Director of Geriatric Emergency Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine

Biography

  • Specialties: Emergency Medicine
  • Research Interests: Emergency care interventions for older adults, post-traumatic pain, elder abuse, malnutrition
  • Current or Prior Funding: National Institute of Justice, 2016; NIH K23 Career Development, 2013; Hartford Collaborative Pilot Project, 2014

Timothy F. Platts-Mills, MD, MSc received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed a four-year residency in emergency medicine at the University of California San Francisco-Fresno. After working full time clinically for three years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Platts-Mills completed a Masters of Science in Clinical Research from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UNC with joint appointments with the Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics. Dr. Platts-Mills' career goal is to improve the quality of emergency care for older adults through research, research mentorship, and support of the larger community of geriatric emergency medicine researchers. Dr. Platts-Mills' K23 research examines the determinants of persistent pain and functional decline after motor vehicle collision among older adults. The long-term goal of this work is to develop emergency department-initiated interventions to reduce morbidity due to persistent pain after motor vehicle collision in the elderly. A related area of research interest is improving patient education and physician decision making regarding pharmacologic agents for the outpatient treatment of acute musculoskeletal pain in older adults. Dr. Platts-Mills' research group is also developing a protocol to screen for elder abuse in the emergency department, a study funded by the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Platts-Mills serves as a decision editor in geriatrics for Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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