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Denise Orwig, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Dr. Orwig is a gerontologist specializing in biobehavioral aspects of aging with extensive expertise in studying older adults, both in community and hospital settings. She is Director of the Baltimore Hip Studies (BHS), a research program dedicated to optimizing recovery from hip fracture, and has established collaborative relationships with key medical personnel in 27 hospitals in the greater Baltimore area, Washington D.C., and southern Pennsylvania. Dr. Orwig’s primary research expertise is in the areas of hip fracture recovery, intervention trials, and longitudinal research methods including study design, recruitment and retention strategies, conducting performance measures, developing interventions to maximize recovery, and translating interventions into the community. She has led eight cohort studies including more than 4,000 hip fracture patients, and four randomized trials involving large interdisciplinary research teams.
Dr. Orwig’s second area of research expertise is in pharmacoepidemiology, particularly in medication management issues of older adults and improving treatment of osteoporosis after hip fracture. She developed an instrument, Medication Management Instrument for Deficiencies in the Elderly (MedMaIDE), to assess older adult’s ability to self-medicate safely in the community. This instrument is unique since it can be used by non-medically trained people (e.g., caregivers) to identify deficiencies of an older adult.

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