Geriatrics

Kenneth Edwin Schmader, MD

Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Geriatrics in the Department of Medicine
Director of the GRECC and ACOS for Geriatrics and Extended Care
Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
Campus mail Duke Box 3469, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 660-7572
Email address schma001@mc.duke.edu

Dr. Schmader's primary area of research is herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) and vaccines in older adults. He conducts pre-clinical, epidemiological and intervention studies of zoster and PHN, particularly with the zoster and influenza vaccines. He is involved with other adult vaccine development in older adults. With colleagues in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Schmader investigates other infections in older adults.

Another major research focus is adverse drug reactions, medication prescribing and pharmacoepidemiology in the elderly. The objective of the medication work is to reduce adverse drug reactions, improve inappropriate prescribing and determine drug use patterns in the elderly.

Education and Training

  • Fellow in Geriatrics, Medicine, Duke University, 1986 - 1988
  • Chief Medical Resident, Medicine, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1983 - 1983
  • Medical Resident, Medicine, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1980 - 1983
  • M.D., Wake Forest University, 1980

Grants

Publications

Schmader, K. "In the Clinic®: Herpes Zoster." Annals of Internal Medicine 169, no. 3 (August 7, 2018): ITC17-ITC30. (Review)

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Whitson, HE, Cohen, HJ, Schmader, KE, Morey, MC, Kuchel, G, and Colon-Emeric, CS. "Physical Resilience: Not Simply the Opposite of Frailty." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 66, no. 8 (August 2018): 1459-1461.

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29577234
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Cobey, S, Gouma, S, Parkhouse, K, Chambers, BS, Ertl, HC, Schmader, KE, Halpin, RA, Lin, X, Stockwell, TB, Das, SR, Landon, E, Tesic, V, Youngster, I, Pinsky, BA, Wentworth, DE, Hensley, SE, and Grad, YH. "Poor Immunogenicity, Not Vaccine Strain Egg Adaptation, May Explain the Low H3N2 Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in 2012-2013." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 67, no. 3 (July 2018): 327-333.

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29471464
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Hadley, EC, Kuchel, GA, Newman, AB, Allore, HG, Bartley, JM, Bergeman, CS, Blinov, ML, Colon-Emeric, CS, Dabhar, FS, Dugan, LL, Dutta, C, Eldadah, BA, Ferrucci, L, Kirkland, JL, Kritchevsky, SB, Lipsitz, LA, Nadkarni, NK, Reed, MJ, Schmader, KE, Sierra, F, Studenski, SA, Varadhan, R, Walston, JD, Whitson, HE, and Yung, R. "Corrigendum to: Report: NIA Workshop on Measures of Physiologic Resiliencies in Human Aging." The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 73, no. 7 (June 2018): 995-null.

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29788088
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Kim, DK, Riley, LE, Hunter, P, Bridges, CB, Woods, LD, Wilson, A, Bennett, N, Cohn, A, Atmar, RL, Belongia, E, Echezona, E, Kempe, A, Lee, GM, Moore, K, Pellegrini, C, Reingold, AL, Romero, JR, Stephens, D, Szilagyi, P, Walter, E, Epling, J, Fryhofer, S, Hopkins, RH, Kim, J, Koenigs, LP, Lanzi, M, Leger, MM, Lett, SM, Poland, G, Reynolds, J, Rittle, C, Schaffner, W, Schmader, K, Sperling, R, Weber, D, Acosta, A, Desai, M, Dooling, K, Grohskopf, L, Hairiri, S, Markowitz, L, Meyer, S, and Oliver, S et al. "Recommended immunization schedule for adults aged 19 years or older, United States, 2018." Annals of Internal Medicine 168, no. 3 (February 6, 2018): 210-220.

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Gray, SL, Hart, LA, Perera, S, Semla, TP, Schmader, KE, and Hanlon, JT. "Meta-analysis of Interventions to Reduce Adverse Drug Reactions in Older Adults." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 66, no. 2 (February 2018): 282-288.

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29265170
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Agarwal, D, Schmader, KE, Kossenkov, AV, Doyle, S, Kurupati, R, and Ertl, HCJ. "Immune response to influenza vaccination in the elderly is altered by chronic medication use." Immunity & Ageing : I & A 15 (January 2018): 19-null.

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30186359
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Walston, J, Robinson, TN, Zieman, S, McFarland, F, Carpenter, CR, Althoff, KN, Andrew, MK, Blaum, CS, Brown, PJ, Buta, B, Ely, EW, Ferrucci, L, High, KP, Kritchevsky, SB, Rockwood, K, Schmader, KE, Sierra, F, Sink, KM, Varadhan, R, and Hurria, A. "Integrating Frailty Research into the Medical Specialties-Report from a U13 Conference." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65, no. 10 (October 2017): 2134-2139.

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28422280
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Miller, KEM, Duan-Porter, W, Stechuchak, KM, Mahanna, E, Coffman, CJ, Weinberger, M, Van Houtven, CH, Oddone, EZ, Morris, K, Schmader, KE, Hendrix, CC, Kessler, C, and Hastings, SN. "Risk stratification for return emergency department visits among high-risk patients." The American Journal of Managed Care 23, no. 8 (August 2017): e275-e279.

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29087151
Scholars@Duke

Koronkowski, MJ, Semla, TP, Schmader, KE, and Hanlon, JT. "Recent Literature Update on Medication Risk in Older Adults, 2015-2016." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65, no. 7 (July 2017): 1401-1405.

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28369729
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