Patricia W. Slattum, Pharm.D., Ph.D., FGSAlinkedin
Patricia Slattum, Ph.D., Pharm.D., is a pharmacist and geriatric clinical pharmacologist. After twenty years on the faculty at VCU School of Pharmacy and Director of the Geriatric Pharmacotherapy Program, she retired at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year and now works part-time with the Virginia Center on Aging at VCU as the co-director of the Virginia Geriatric Education Center Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program. She remains engaged in scholarship, practice, interprofessional education and mentoring in the field of geriatrics. The focus of her research is reducing medication-related problems among older adults with a particular interest in drug-induced cognitive and functional impairment. She develops geriatrics-focused curriculum for interprofessional training and has more than twenty years of experience establishing pharmacy and interprofessional practice models serving older adults. She serves as faculty in the VCU Mobile Health and Wellness Program, an interprofessional teaching and care coordination program in low-income senior housing that she co-founded in 2012. Her role in these efforts is facilitating integration of age-friendly practice into primary care. Her strength is in applying team science principles to interdisciplinary community-engaged collaborative projects to facilitate project success. She also serves as a Visiting Scholar at the Gerontological Society of America.