Faculty

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Evelyn Hutt, MD, joined the University of Colorado Division of Geriatric Medicine and Center on Aging in September 1998. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1974 and the University of Colorado Denver Medical School in 1985. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota, and completed a geriatrics fellowship at Stanford University.

From 1990 to 1995, Dr. Hutt directed Senior Plus, the geriatrics program at Denver Health Medical Center, where she also served as a clinician-educator. Under her leadership, the Senior Plus program grew to serve 3,500 patients at six diverse multidisciplinary sites. From 1995 to 1998, she focused on clinical work in managed care, limiting her practice to nursing home patients and initiating a nursing home care rotation for internal medicine residents at St. Joseph Hospital.

Dr. Hutt was recruited to the University of Colorado in 1998 to develop her research interests in long-term care under the mentorship of Dr. Andrew Kramer. Her work has focused on understanding and improving the contribution physicians make to the quality of life and care of nursing home residents. During the past year she participated in a study of the impact of prospective Medicare payment on subacute nursing home patients and an examination of the effect of nurse staffing ratios on quality of care in nursing homes. She has presented abstracts of this work at recent American Geriatrics Society annual meetings.

In December 1999, Dr. Hutt received grant funding from the Academic Medicine and Quality Care Forum to begin developing standards for the treatment of nursing home acquired pneumonia. In addition, she recently received a Hartford/Jahnigen Center of Excellence Assistant Professor Stipend, which will enable her to expand her preliminary work into a prospective trial of pneumonia treatment standards in long-term care, as well as complete coursework in statistics and study design.

Her clinical work in the Division of Geriatric Medicine enables her to pursue her interest in multicultural geriatrics. She divides her time between the University of Colorado Hospital Seniors Clinic and the Westside Neighborhood Health Center at Denver Health Medical Center, where she serves primarily Spanish speaking elders. She is currently the only board-certified, Spanish speaking geriatrician in the metro Denver area.

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