Dr. Scandrett is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and a faculty member of the Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in religion and earned her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1996. She completed her internship and residency at the Cambridge Hospital in 1999 and a fellowship in geriatrics at Harvard Medical School's Division on Aging in 2002. She earned her master's degree in public health from Harvard University in 2004. More...

At Harvard and at Northwestern, Dr. Scandrett has been involved in teaching geriatrics clinical skills to medical students and residents, through nursing home teaching rounds, lectures, and small group discussions. Her research interests are in the multidimensional aspects of quality of life among frail older people and in improving the quality of care delivered to frail older people in institutional settings. Dr Scandrett is an attending physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a consulting physician at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and the associate medical director of the Warren Barr Pavilion Skilled Nursing Facility. Prior to moving to Chicago, she was on the staff of the Cambridge Health Alliance from 1999–2002 and at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged in Boston, MA from 2003—2004. She has received research support from the John A. Hartford Foundation/American Federation of Aging Research Fellows Program, the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center Women’s Auxiliary, and the Smart Family Foundation.

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• Quality Improvement in advanced illness and long-term care
• Quality of life in the nursing home
• Religious and Spiritual Issues in Aging

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