Education Faculty

Sarah Beck, MD

Dr. Sarah Beck is an Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.  She is the GeriPACT Clinic Director at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Clinic. She works clinically as a primary care provider and her appointment with the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center has her working on clinical demonstration projects such as the Fall Prevention Clinic, a Healthy Aging Group Visit and BRAVe Home Meds. She is the VA site director for the Geriatric Fellowship and the Preventative Medicine Residency. Her interests include quality improvement in the VA setting.

Elizabeth Bloemen, MD

Assistant Professor

Larry Bourg, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Denver VA Medical Center

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Sophie Clark, MD

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine 

Devin Gilhuly, MD

Devin Gilhuly MD MS, is a clinician educator and a geriatrician and palliative care physician. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine and works in the Seniors Clinic as well as the multidisciplinary cancer center. He is the medical director for the COAST-IT program (Connecting Older Adults and Students Through Intergenerational Telecare) and is currently working on a waitlist control trial evaluating the effectiveness and impact on loneliness of a student-led, telephone-based outreach program to older adults. He serves on the wellness committee for the Department of Medicine and has a keen interest in mitigating physician burnout. 

Janna Hardland, MD

Janna Hardland, MD is a geriatrician and medical educator who serves as Program Director of the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship as well as Director of Education for the Division of Geriatrics. As a clinician educator, she cares for older adults in outpatient primary care, inpatient acute care of the elder, and subacute rehabilitation settings, while working with learners across all levels of medical training. She strives to provide exceptional clinical care while teaching future clinicians to provide high-quality, conscientious, and patient-centered care to older adults. She has focused her career on development and implementation of curricula to teach principles of geriatric medicine to medical students, internal medicine residents, geriatric medicine fellows, and advanced practice providers. Her ultimate goal is to facilitate geriatric workforce enhancement by training future clinicians who are mindful of what constitutes an age-friendly health system, who can care for older adults well within the confines of our current systems, and who are equipped with the knowledge and skills to improve the quality of care of older adults.  
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Thomas Johnson, MD

Assistant Professor

Cari Levy, MD, PhD

Cari Levy, MD, PhD, CMD, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver with board certification in Geriatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She graduated from Pepperdine University, received her Medical Degree and PhD in health services research from the University of Colorado Medical School and completed residency and a chief resident year at Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Levy is currently Division Head of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is a core investigator at the Denver–Seattle Center for Veteran Centered and Value Driven Research where she focuses her research on innovative models of long-term care. Her clinical work is in geriatrics and palliative care at the Rocky Mountain Regional Medical Center and the University of Colorado Hospital. Prior to her role in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, she served as Section Chief for Palliative Medicine at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center (2006-2023) and Director of the Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Research.
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Hillary Lum, MD, PhD

Hillary Lum, MD, PhD conducts patient-centered outcomes research to improve care for older adults with serious illness, including persons living with dementia and their family care partners. She is a geriatrician, palliative care physician, and Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Her research focused on developing and implementing effective models of care into primary care. As an NIA Beeson Scholar, she developed a novel Advance Care Planning Group Visit. The Group Visit intervention engages older adults in advance care planning conversations and communicating their preferences with their healthcare system. In 2021, she was one of the first NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Health Care System Scholars. She was a 2015-2016 Health and Aging Policy Fellow, is a Co-Director of the CCTSI Clinical Faculty Scholars Program, and serves in editorial roles with the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and the Journal of Palliative Medicine.

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Gretchen Orosz, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Practice ​​

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Mandy Peng, MD

Assistant Professor ​of Medicine

I grew up in Taiwan and New York and moved to Colorado for my Internal Medicine-Primary Care residency and Geriatric fellowship at the University of Colorado-Anschutz. I received my MD from New York University School of Medicine, and my undergraduate degree in molecular and cellular biology and music from University of California-Berkeley. I enjoy working with the underserved population and is currently the medical director at our community clinic in Kavod Senior Life. Before rejoining the geriatric division, I also worked with complex low-income patients at InnoAge PACE (program of all-inclusive care for the elderly) in Aurora. Outside of work, I enjoy traveling, hiking, reading, and going to the symphony.

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Sarah Tietz, MD

Assistant Professor ​of Medicine
Dr. Sarah Tietz is the Director of Clinical Operations for the Division of Geriatrics and Medical Director of Seniors Clinic. She works clinically as a primary care provider, is a part of the VESPA team that does inpatient elder abuse consults, and spends some time attending on the GEM service in the subacute rehab setting and as an attending on the ACE geriatric inpatient medicine team. Her primary academic area of interest is in quality improvement, particularly focused on decreasing rates of ED use and unnecessary hospitalizations. She completed all of her medical training at CU medicine, including completing geriatrics fellowship in 2020 so can answer questions about what it's like to be a fellow here and the transition to being an attending as well.
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Jacob Walker, MD

Assistant Professor
I have a unique background and training in both geriatric team-based care and HIV specialty care and currently practice both disciplines across multiple clinical settings. My research interests are focused on the integration of geriatric principles and tools into more traditional HIV care settings through an implementation science lens. Particular areas of research interest within HIV and aging include polypharmacy, dementia/HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder, and frailty.

Tyson Garfield, DO

Assistant Professor, Associate Program Director

Tyson Garfield DO, is a clinician educator and provides outpatient primary care for older adults. He collaborates with his patients to achieve patient-centered health outcomes that reflect their preferences and values. He joined the University of Colorado as an Assistant Professor of Medicine after serving as a primary care physician for a PACE program and as a physician for hospice, palliative care, and primary care at his alma mater, the University of North Texas Health Science Center. His educational interests span from teaching financial literacy to medical students to working in the federal prison system to teach interdisciplinary teams the importance of geriatric care. He is also an active advocate for physician rights and patient health equity, participating in various healthcare policy special interest groups, committees, and councils. His goal is to develop learners into future healthcare leaders, and to help learners find the avenue of leadership they enjoy and can see in their future.