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About the Presenter
Una Makris, MD, MSc
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Member, Division of Rheumatic Diseases
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Visiting professor Dr. Una Makris is a nationally-recognized health services and outcomes investigator. Her research focuses on the intersection of aging and rheumatic diseases, specifically the development and evaluation of novel behavioral interventions targeting older adults with musculoskeletal pain and depression. Since 2010, her research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Veteran's Administration, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Rheumatology Research Foundation. She serves on several NIH grant review panels and as chair of the Health Services Study Section for the Rheumatology Research Foundation. A member of the editorial boards for Arthritis Care and Research, Frontiers in Pain Research, and Pain Medicine, she is also currently an ad hoc reviewer for another 12 medical journals.
After receiving her undergraduate degree in microbiology from University of California - San Diego, she went on to obtain her medical degree from George Washington University Medical School. She completed her internal medicine residency at University of Washington, followed by a rheumatology fellowship at Yale University. She continued at Yale Geriatrics for a post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology and aging-related research. She also completed a master’s degree in clinical sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern.
Dr. Makris currently serves as an associate professor in the Division of Rheumatic Diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and a clinical investigator at the Veteran's Administration (VA) North Texas Health Care System and the Dallas VA Medical Center.