Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, M.D., MPH, AGSF

Bio: Dr. Megan Huisingh-Scheetz is a Geriatrician physician scientist who studies the role of technology in advancing translational frailty science. Her work targets two areas of technology: wearable sensors and voice-activated devices. She studies how accelerometry-based mobility patterns relate to frailty and aging biomarkers and whether these devices can improve our understanding of frailty and enhance the frailty assessment.

As a clinician, she established a frailty evaluation clinic in 2011, the Successful Aging and Frailty Evaluation™ (SAFE) clinic, in which she assesses and manages frailty in all referred patients and supports caregivers. This clinical experience has informed her “in the trenches” perspective on the value of and remaining challenges to frailty measurement in practice. Her clinical work also motivated her to develop a technology-based program called “EngAGE” that leverages a voice-activated device to deliver long-term mobility and socialization support to frail adults while empowering their caregivers.