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Richard H. Fortinsky, PhD, FGSA (he/him/his)

Professor and Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology
University of Connecticut
Farmington, Connecticut, United States

Richard H. Fortinsky, PhD, is a professor at the University of Connecticut (UConn) School of Medicine, where he is a core faculty member at the UConn Center on Aging and holds the Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology. For more than four decades, Dr. Fortinsky has collaborated with colleagues from a wide range of scientific disciplines, and with numerous healthcare system and community-based organization partners, to design and carry out studies intended to improve healthcare and optimize health-related outcomes for community-dwelling older adults and their families. He has served as Chair of two National Institutes of Health study sections, Chair of the GSA Social Research, Policy, and Practice Section, and Chair of the GSA’s national expert Workgroup on Cognitive Impairment Detection and Earlier Diagnosis. Presently, Dr. Fortinsky serves as: principal investigator (PI) for a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded study testing an in-home, team-based interventions targeting older adults with cognitive vulnerability; multiple PI for a National Institute on Aging-funded study to examine the interplay of dementia, race, and ethnicity in relation to hospitalization, emergency department visits, and achievement of goals of care in a statewide population receiving Medicaid-funded home and community-based services; and multiple PI for the UConn Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.

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