Primary Care Population Medicine

Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD is a geriatric psychiatrist with research, teaching, policy, clinical and administrative expertise related to geriatric psychiatry patients and family caregiver health.

Dr. Lubow’s publications have addressed family caregiver screening, longitudinal outcomes, and best practices for working with families during post-hospital care transitions. National presentations on family caregiving have been prepared for the NIH Clinical Center, the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the Lewy Body Dementia Association and the New England region’s Machado-Joseph Disease community.

Dr. Lubow has served as Vice President of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and participated in developing the RI State Plan for Alzheimer’s Disease. He was an invited participant to the Alliance for Aging Research’s meeting, “Translating Innovation to Impact: Evidence-based interventions to support people with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers at home and in the community” in Washington, DC, June 28 2012.

He was also an invited speaker at the Health Affairs Press Briefing: The Long Reach of Alzheimer’s Disease in Washington, DC, April 9 2014 where he presented his personal narrative essay, “A Family Disease: Witnessing Firsthand the Toll that Dementia Takes on Caregivers.” In his clinical and administrative work, Dr. Lubow has attended to hundreds of elderly hospitalized patients, providing a family-oriented approach on Butler Hospital’s 22-bed inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit, where worked is the Assistant Unit Chief for 9 years