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General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics

As a specialty division of IU School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics is large, diverse, and active in the department’s clinical, teaching and research missions. The division includes primary care, geriatrics, hospital medicine, palliative medicine, global medicine and ethics. Our clinicians practice at three Indianapolis health systems (IU Health, Eskenazi Health and the VA Medical Center) and at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. Our researchers benefit from appointments at the Regenstrief Institute and other IU centers. Led by Greg Sachs, MD, the division was one of the first three of such specialty units in the United States.

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Individuals wishing to support the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics can do so by donating online.

Research

This division conducts cutting-edge, patient-centered research using an interdisciplinary approach to science.  Long-standing strengths of the division include aging research, biomedical informatics, health services research and bioethics.

Dr. Westmoreland holds the hand of an elderly patient in an exam room

Clinical Care

Clinical efforts in this division encompass multiple specialties, including adult internal medicine, geriatrics, hospital medicine and palliative medicine. Our clinicians practice throughout the Indianapolis metro region.

Fellowship

The Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics offers multiple ACGME-accredited fellowship programs in geriatrics and palliative medicine.

Featured Posts

Greg Sachs, MD, is picture against a plain red background.
Faculty News

Long-serving division chief announces retirement

Greg Sachs, MD, has announced he will retire in June after nearly 20 years of exemplary service to the Indiana University Department of Medicine as its chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.

Dean Jay Hess speaks at podium with Excellence in Health Care logo as others watch
Faculty News

IU School of Medicine dean, faculty honored with IBJ Excellence in Health Care awards

The Indianapolis Business Journal honored several IU School of Medicine faculty, including Dean Jay L. Hess, for outstanding efforts to improve the health of people in Indiana.

Nicole Fowler, PhD, MHSA
The Beat

Fowler named Klapper Family Scholar

Nicole Fowler, PhD, MHSA, has been named the Klapper Family Scholar in Aging and Family Caregiving Research. The role was created in 2024 by the Klapper Family Foundation – an Indianapolis-based nonprofit built by Indiana University alums David I. and Mary “Betty” Klapper – and is intended for a full-time member of the IU School of Medicine faculty “whose research focuses on advancing the science of caregiving in older adults and will be an investigator in the IU Center for Aging Research.”