The late Mark H. Beers, MD, a geriatrician, first created the Beers Criteria in 1991, through a consensus panel of experts by using the Delphi method.
Diane E. Meier, M.D., (born April 15, 1952) is an American geriatrician and the Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
After the war, 200 post-encephalitic Parkinsonism patients were cared for at the hospital by consultant geriatrician and former general practitioner Joseph Sharkey, whose work at the hospital included the early trials of levodopa in Parkinsonism.