November Speaker: Tacara Soones, MD MPH

SPEAKER: Tacara Soones, MD MPH

The Medicare GUIDE Model Explained: A New Initiative For Comprehensive, Coordinated Dementia Care
Dr. Tacara Soones is a board-certified internist and geriatrician with a passion for developing innovative healthcare programs that allow older adults and their family members to spend more quality time together and less time thinking about healthcare. She completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University, attended medical school and public health school at Columbia University, and pursued her internal medicine residency and geriatric medicine fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She has been practicing in the Houston area for over seven years and has a particular interest in models that move healthcare out of brick-and-mortar buildings and into patients' homes, such as telemedicine, hospital-at-home programs, and housecalls.