Pamela Jarrett

Pamela Jarrett, MD, FRCPC, FACP Horizon Health Network, New Brunswick

Principal Investigator:

2018 Catalyst Grant Program – Optimizing transitions from hospital to home for frail older adults: a mixed method study to examine how hospital discharge plans translate into supportive home care environments (CAT 2018-38)

2017 Catalyst Grant Program (Medication Optimization) – A Collaborative Intervention for Streamlining Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing within Integrated Health-Care Teams (CAT 2017-10)

Dr. Pamela Jarrett currently works a geriatrician in the Department of Geriatric Medicine, Horizon Health Network in Saint John and as Medical Officer of Primary Care in the Department of Health in New Brunswick. She was previously the Clinical Department Head of Geriatric Medicine from 1999 to 2010. She completed her undergraduate studies in Science at the University of New Brunswick and attended Medical School at Dalhousie University.  She completed her Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine Fellowships at Dalhousie University. She is actively involved in the clinical care of older adults living with frailty, teaching and research as well as administratively in the Department of Health. Her research interests are in care of older adults living with frailty, dementia, medication appropriateness and alternate level of care patients. She is also a researcher with the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging.