Dr. Elizabeth Karen Vig MD MPH
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
1660 S Columbian Way Vapshcs S182 Ethics Seattle WA, 98108About
Dr. Elizabeth Vig practices Geriatric Medicine in Seattle, WA. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Vig works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
New York Univ Sch of Med, New York Ny 1993
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Geriatric Medicine- 1999
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hospice and Palliative Medicine- 2010
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lead toxicity in older adults.
- Quality of life while dying: a qualitative study of terminally ill older men.
- Good and bad dying from the perspective of terminally ill men.
- Cognitive screening raises fears of identity theft.
- How do surrogate decision makers describe hospice? Does it matter?
- Beyond substituted judgment: How surrogates navigate end-of-life decision-making.
- What is the true association between nursing home location and hospitalization of its residents?
- Surviving surrogate decision-making: what helps and hampers the experience of making medical decisions for others.
- Why don't patients enroll in hospice? Can we do anything about it?
- The disappearing subject: exclusion of people with cognitive impairment and dementia from geriatrics research.
- Initiation of dialysis at higher levels of estimated GFR and subsequent withdrawal.
- Decisions about dialysis initiation in the elderly.
- The steak dinner--a professional boundary crossing.
- Timing of Initiation of Maintenance Dialysis: A Qualitative Analysis of the Electronic Medical Records of a National Cohort of Patients From the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Provider Perspectives on Advance Care Planning for Patients with Kidney Disease: Whose Job Is It Anyway?
Fellowships
- UW - Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine
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