Consuelo Hopkins Wilkins, MD, MSci
Current Position
Associate Professor, Medicine and Psychiatry
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science
Medical Director, Barnes-Jewish Extended Care
Director, CARE in our Community (Collaborative Assessments to Revitalize the Elderly)
Geriatric Consultant, The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis
Specialty Areas
Geriatric Medicine
Mailing Address
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Washington University School of Medicine
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science
660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8303
St. Louis,
MO
63110
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Areas of Clinical Interest
Geriatrics, dementia, senility, Alzheimer's disease, long-term care and sub-acute care at Barnes-Jewish Extended Care facility.
Added Certificate of Qualification in Geriatrics.
Certified Medical Director (CMD), 2004
Areas of Research Interest
NIH- Beeson Career Development Award in Aging Research
“Vitamin D in Older Adults: Cognition, Mood and Hippocampal Volume”. This career development award focuses on training the PI in skills needed for morphometric and functional neuroimaging. The study will investigate the relationship between vitamin D deficiency, cognitive performance, affect and the hippocampus. 09/15/2006 - 06/30/2011
Barnes Jewish Hospital Foundation. Collaborative Assessments to Revitalize the Elderly in Our Community “CARE in Our Community”
To develop a model of health care delivery to prevent frailty and disability in community-dwelling older adults. 1/01/2008 – 12/31/2010
Board Certification
Internal Medicine
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Certified
Medical Education
B.S.: Howard University School of Arts and Sciences, Washington D.C., 1992
Medical Degree: Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, D.C., 1996
Residency: Duke University Medicial Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1999
Fellowship: Geriatric Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 2000
MSci: Clinical Investigation, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 2002
Hospital Affiliations
Barne-Jewish Extended Care
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis
Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Honors and Awards
Kopolow Award for Excellence in Geriatrics, Neurology or Psychiatry, Washington University Center for Aging, 2008
Distinguished Faculty Award for Community Service, Washington University School of Medicine, 2008
Advanced Research Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, 2008
Women of Distinction Award, Professional Organization of Women, 2006
Mound City Medical Forum, Outstanding Service Award, 2006
America's Top Physicians, 2005
Best Physician, National Medical Association Region V, 2004
Alzheimer's Association Recognition Award, St. Louis Chapter, 2004
Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry, 2004
Top 10 Physicians in St. Louis, St. Louis American Foundation, 2002
Recent Publications
Wilkins CH, Roe CM, Morris JC. A brief clinical tool to assess physical function: The Mini-Physical Performance Test. Archives of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 2009, in press.
Wilkins CH, Birge SJ, Sheline YI, Morris JC. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with worse cognitive performance and lower bone density in older African Americans. JNMA, 2009;101:349-354.
Wilkins CH, Mathews J, Sheline YI. Late Life Depression with Cognitive Impairment: Evaluation and Treatment. Clinical Interventions in Aging. 2009:4 51-57.
Wilkins CH, Moylan KC, and Carr DB. Diagnosis and Management of Dementia in Long-Term Care. Annals of Long Term Care: Dec 10 2008.
Sheline YI, Price JL, Vaishnavi SN, Mintun MA, Barch DM, Epstein AA, Wilkins CH, Snyder AZ, Couture L, Schechtman K, McKinstry RC. Regional WMH Burden in Automated Segmentation Distinguishes Late Life Depressed Subjects from Controls Matched for Vascular Risk Factors. American Journal of Psychiatry 2008 Apr;165(4):524-32. Epub 2008 Feb 15. PMID: 18281408
Wilkins CH. Osteoporosis Screening and Risk Management. Clinical Interventions in Aging. 2007; 2:389-394. PMID: 18044189
Wilkins CH, Wilkins KL, Meisel M, Depke M, Williams J, and Edwards DF. Dementia Undiagnosed in Poor Older Adults with Functional Impairment”. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2007; 55:1771–1776. PMID: 17916120
Wilkins CH, Sheline YI, Roe CM, Birge SJ, and Morris JC. Vitamin D Deficiency is Associated with Low Mood and Worse Cognitive Performance in Older Adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2006; 14:1032–1040.
Johnson DK, Wilkins CH, and Morris JC. Accelerated Weight Loss May Precede Diagnosis in Alzheimer Disease. Arch Neurol 2006 63: 1312-1317.
Wilkins CH, Grant EA, Schmidt SE, McKeel D, and Morris JC. Neuropathology of Alzheimer’s Disease in Blacks and Whites. Archives of Neurology 2006;63:87-90.
Wilkins CH, Moylan KC, and Carr DB. Diagnosis and Management of Dementia in Long-Term Care. Annals of Long Term Care: Clinical Care and Aging 2005;13(11):17-24.
Wilkins CH and Birge SJ. Prevention of Osteoporotic Fractures in the Elderly. American Journal of Medicine 2005; 11:1190-1195.
Sheline YI, Mintun MA, Barch DM, Wilkins C, Snyder AZ, Moerlein SM. Decreased Hippocampal 5-HT2A Receptor Binding in Late Life Depression Using [18F] Altanserin Positron Emission Tomography. Neuropsychopharmacology 2004;29:2235-2241.
Wilkins CH and Goldfeder J. Osteoporosis Screening is Unjustifiably Low in Older African American Women. Journal of National Medical Association; 2004;96:461–467.
Wilkins CH, Morris JC. Understanding mild cognitive impairment. An overview of diagnosis and management. Women Health Primary Care. 2003;3(6):309-316.
Wilkins CH and Carr DB. An Update on the Management of Alzheimer’s Disease. Family Practice Recert, 2000, 22:69-78.
For more articles and abstracts, take this off-site link to the National Library of Medicine Pub Med page for Dr. Consuelo H. Wilkins