Our Team

Toni M. Cutson, MD, MHS

Dr. Toni Cutson is Assistant Director of the Extended Care and Rehabilitation Center at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center . She is the physician leader of the Palliative Care Consult Team at the DVAMC and of the VISN 6 (network) Palliative Care Consult Team. Dr. Cutson serves as the medical director for the hospice of the DVAMC affiliate teaching institution, Duke University Medical Center. Areas of interest include end of life care, assessment and intervention/rehabilitation with mobility difficulties among older adults (e.g., Parkinson's disease), and long term care.

Selected Publications:

Schenkman M, Cutson TM, Kuchibhatla, Scott BL, Cress ME. Application of the continuous scale physical functional performance test to people with Parkinson disease. Neurology Report 2002:26(3):130-138.
Schenkman M, Cutson TM, Zhu CW, Whetten-Goldstein K. Living with Parkinson disease: Patients’ perceptions of the experience and their self prophesy of mortality. Gerontologist 2002:42:790-98.
Schenkman M, Scherer S, Riegger-Krugh C, Cutson TM. Measurement of impairments and functional limintations: conceptual issues and practical applications. Critical Reviews in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2002; 14(2):83-161.
CutsonTM. Management of pain in the older adult. Clin Fam Pract, 3(3):667-682, 2001.
Whetten-Goldstein K, Zhu C, Cutson TM, Schenkman M. Neurological disorders in patients and their families: What providers need to know. Neurology Reports, 2000.
Schenkman M, Zhu C, Cutson TM, Whetten-Goldstein K. Longitudinal evaluation of the economical and physical impact of Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism and Rel Dis,8(1):41-50, 2001.