History

Started in 1972, the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine has been a cornerstone of community medicine in Louisville and surrounding areas. Our program, currently a three-year residency program with a cohort of eight residents per year, has also added residency programs in Glasgow and Owensboro. We also house a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship program which began graduating geriatricians in the late 1990s, as well as a Sports Medicine Fellowship, started in 2007. Both fellowships have matriculated several of our current faculty.

Who we serve

Family Medicine serves the entire population of the city of Louisville and surrounding areas from its main operation center at Mary & Elizabeth hospital. We have a clinic located there as well as multiple locations around the metropolitan area. We also see patients in the hospital proper, located adjacent to our offices in the Medical Plaza. Geriatric Medicine fellows and faculty serve patients in multiple nursing homes throughout Louisville, the Veteran Affairs Medical Center, the GeriPsych ward at UofL Health - Jewish Hospital and through our clinic space at the Trager Institute. Sports Medicine fellows and faculty are responsible for primary care sports medicine through the Sports Medicine Institute at Cardinal Station as well as providing sideline coverage for all our Division I student athletes, the population at-large within the city of Louisville and several professional sports teams in Louisville, including Louisville Bats (MiLB), Racing Louisville FC (NWSL) and Louisville City FC (USL).