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Anthony Nicholas Galanos, MA, MD

Dr. Tony Galanos is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine at Duke University Medical Center . Having created an inpatient service in 1994, Geriatric Medicine Associates, Dr Galanos was instrumental in starting the inpatient Palliative Care Service at Duke, and has served as its Medical Director since its opening in May, 2003. This opportunity has led to many "teachable moments " with the housestaff, and Dr Galanos has been nominated for the Eugene Stead Teaching Award numerous times by the Internal Medicine Housestaff and won the Golden Apple Teaching Award bestowed by the Medical Students in 2000.

A graduate of the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, he trained in Internal Medicine at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston , and did Fellowship training in Geriatric Medicine at Duke . He joined the Faculty in 1992, is Medical Director at The Forest at Duke Continuing Care Retirement Community, Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, and Soros Foundation Project Death in America Faculty Scholar (2000-2002). Dr. Galanos is the Co-Director of the Fellowship in Palliative Medicine at Duke, July 2005.

Selected Publications:

Hamel MB, Teno JM, Goldman L, Lynn J, Davis R, Galanos AN et al. Patient Age and Decisions to Withhold Life-sustaining Treatments from Seriously Ill, Hospitalized Adults". Annals of Internal Medicine. 1999; 130: 116-125.
Galanos AN, Pieper CF, Kussin PF et al. "The Relationship of Body Mass Index to Subsequent Mortality Among Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients". Critical Care Medicine. 1997; 25: 1962-1968.
Hamel MB , Phillips RS, Teno JM, Lynn J, Galanos AN. "Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: Do We Spend Less on Older Patients?" Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 1996; 44: 1043-1048.
Galanos AN, Fillenbaum GG et al. "The Comprehensive Assessment of Community Dwelling Elderly: Why Functional Status is Not Enough" Aging: Clinical and Experimental Research. 1994; 6: 343-352.
Galanos AN, Pieper CF, et al. "Nutrition and Function: The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and the Functional Capabilities of Community Dwelling Elderly". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 1994; 42: 368-373.
Galanos, AN. Hospital-based palliative care units: answering a growing need. N C Med J. 2004 Jul-Aug;65(4):217-20.
Galanos, AN, Hays JC, Moore JD, Poppe A. “Where do continuing care retirement community residents die?” J AM Geriatr Soc. 2004 Aug; 52(8): 1401-2.