Joshua Uy, MD
Program Director
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Dr. Uy was appointed program director of the Geriatric Medicine fellowship in 2017. A graduate of the medical school of the University of Michigan, he completed residency training in 2003 at the MacNeal Family Medicine Residency, an affiliate of the University of Chicago. He then practiced hospital medicine in Willingboro, New Jersey for two years before operating a solo family practice in Berwick, Pennsylvania from 2004-2008. In this setting he gained valuable experience in geriatrics in the outpatient office, nursing home and home visit settings.
In 2009 Dr. Uy completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine from University of Medicine and Dentistry-Robert Wood Johnson School (now Rutgers School of Biomedical and Health Sciences). He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Division of Geriatric Medicine in July 2009.
Dr. Uy has demonstrated outstanding performance as a clinician and teacher. From 2015-2020, he has been chosen by his physician peers as a Best Doc in Philadelphia. He is consistently highly ranked as an educator by medical students and residents from across the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) and several subspecialty clinical departments, serving as a dedicated preceptor in the Doctoring course and director of the “Aging” theme for the Medical Student Curriculum Committee. Dr. Uy has demonstrated consistent know-how working with inter-professional teams and assumes extra clinical duties in support of Division colleagues when needed. He is medical director of the Renaissance Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in West Philadelphia and has assumed leadership of several aging-related programs at PSOM, the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the broader Philadelphia community.
Most recently, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services named Dr. Uy as a medical director for a statewide academic health system-based COVID-19 readiness and response planning initiative known as the Regional Response Health Collaboration Program (RRHCP), a $175M project. Dr. Uy will lead the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Thomas Jefferson University teams, which were awarded a combined $65.8 million for efforts in the state's southeast region focused on infection prevention, universal testing, contact tracing and education, working with regulatory agencies to improve outcomes in long-term care residential facilities.
Rachel K. Miller, MD, MSEd
Vice Chief of Education, Division of Geriatrics
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Dr. Rachel K. Miller is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and Vice Chief of Education for the University of Pennsylvania Division of Geriatrics. She is also a home care medicine physician at the Philadelphia CMC-VA Home Based Primary Care program for over fifteen years. Her medical education career focuses on curricula development in aging, home care medicine, transitions of care, and interprofessional education. She serves on multiple national committees focused on aging and home care medicine, delivers workshops yearly at national conferences, and has published education articles in high impact journals. She is a prior Geriatric Academic Career Award (GACA) awardee and current co-director of AGE SMART, the HRSA funded Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) grant at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mark Simone, MD, AGSF
Vice Chief Clinical Affairs, Division of Geriatrics
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Dr. Mark Simone is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and a member of the Penn Division of Geriatric Medicine. He is a graduate of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and completed his internship and residency in the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program at Yale - New Haven Hospital, and a geriatric medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr Simone joined Penn Geriatrics in 2018, and is now the Vice Chief, Clinical Affairs for the Division of Geriatrics. He is also the Chief for Geriatrics at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) and serves as Medical Director for the Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Unit and the Director of the Geriatric Surgical Co-Management and Consultation Service at PPMC.
His primary clinical practice and current area of scholarly activity includes providing inpatient geriatric co-management to older adults admitted to the surgical services at PPMC. He also seeks to develop and spread initiatives from the ACE Unit to all areas of the hospital in order to optimize the inpatient care of older adults. Recently he has formed a Delirium Prevention Taskforce at PPMC and is piloting efforts to implement delirium screening and standardize optimal practices for prevention and management. Prior to joining Penn, Dr Simone was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and faculty at Mount Auburn Hospital where he was the Director of the Primary Care Pathway and APD for the internal medicine residency program, and a geriatric primary care physician for 10 years. He also has a sustained interest in medical education, currently serving as the APD for the Penn Geriatric Medicine Fellowship.
Alyson Michener, MD
Associate Program Director, Geriatrics Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Dr. Michener learned early on during her medical education that “to teach is to learn twice.” She pursued a certificate of leadership in medical education at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management during her internship and residency at CWRU’s medical school. A graduate of New York Medical College, Dr. Michener has taken an active role in leading geriatrics curriculum for medical students here at the University of Pennsylvania, recognizing the demographic need for growing and deepening knowledge of this field. “Geriatrics is the perfect specialty for medical educators because there is such great need in this space as our population ages. An added bonus is getting to practice in several diverse sites of care which keeps things really interesting.” Dr. Michener noted that she loves general internal medicine but is especially challenged by “thinking about the added layer of complexity that occurs in many older adults facing multimorbidity and complex social needs.” During her fellowship training at Penn, she developed and later became the faculty advisor for the student interest group, GrANDMAS (Geriatrics, Aging, and Neurodegenerative Disease in Medicine and Society). In addition to her role as an associate program director for the fellowship, Dr. Michener is a clinical provider on the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Unit, Ralston Home Care, the Penn Presbyterian Ortho surgical Co-Management and Consults service and is the medical director for Ralston Geriatrics House Calls Program. She loves living in Philadelphia because she finds the city “Very accessible … we have some of the best restaurants in the country and my neighborhood, Fishtown, is home to a lot of them!” and in the summer, a well-earned relaxing trip to the beach is just a little over an hour away.