Duke Health Provider
Susan Nicole Hastings, MD
Geriatric Medicine Specialist
Duke Health Provider
Where I See Patients
Durham VA Health Care System - Durham, NC
Board Certified
American Board of Internal Med, Geriatric Medicine
American Board of Internal Med, Internal Medicine
My Locations
Durham VA Health Care System
Open
508 Fulton St
Durham,
NC
27705
About Me
Current Appointments and Affiliations
- Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care 2019
- Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences 2020
- Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development 2006
Languages I Speak
English
Training and Education
Board Certification
American Board of Internal Med, Geriatric Medicine
American Board of Internal Med, Internal Medicine
Fellowship
Geriatric Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 2003-2006
Residency
Internal Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center (California), 1998-2001
Education
MD, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 1998
Clinical Focus and Research
Publications and Grants
Grants22
Academic Articles176
Book Sections1
Conference Papers52
- Duke/UNC ADAR Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 2024 - 2029
- Cope, T. L., S. Z. George, S. N. Hastings, C. France, C. Tumminello, C. J. Coffman, A. Choate, and T. A. Lentz. “Novel approaches to recruiting clinical sites for embedded pragmatic clinical trials: Insights from the AIM-back trial (Accepted).” Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications 45 (June 1, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2025.101483.
- Zhang, Audrey D., Lindsay Zepel, Sandra Woolson, Katherine E. M. Miller, Loren J. Schleiden, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Joshua M. Thorpe, and Susan Nicole Hastings. “Initiation and Persistence of Antipsychotic Medications at Hospital Discharge Among Community-Dwelling Veterans With Dementia.” Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 33, no. 5 (May 2025): 500–511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2024.09.010.
- Guidot, Daniel M., Marc Pepin, S Nicole Hastings, Robert Tighe, and Kenneth Schmader. “Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use among older veterans with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) - a retrospective cohort study.” BMC Pulm Med 25, no. 1 (April 21, 2025): 186. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-025-03611-2.
- Hastings, S. N., A. Choate, C. B. Kappler, K. M. Stechuchak, C. Meyer, and C. J. Coffman. “The STRIDE Program: Getting Hospitalized Veterans Back on Their Feet.” In Geriatrics Models of Care: Bringing ‘Best Practice’ to an Aging America, Second Edition, 85–91, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56204-4_8.
- Dublin, Sascha, Ladia Albertson-Junkans, Thanh Phuong Pham Nguyen, Juliessa M. Pavon, S Nicole Hastings, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Allison Willis, et al. “Defining key deprescribing measures from electronic health data: A multisite data harmonization project.” In J Am Geriatr Soc, 73:399–410, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.19280.
- Syed, Quratulain, Gerald McGwin, Zachary Burningham, Jessica L. Kelleher, Jennie Mather, Susan N. Hastings, Melissa B. Stevens, Isis Morris, George L. Jackson, and Camille P. Vaughan. “Gabapentinoid prescribing in Veterans Administration emergency departments implementing EQUIPPED.” In J Am Geriatr Soc, 72:1265–68, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18759.
- Pavon, J. M., M. Wei, D. Page, L. Zepel, M. Maciejewski, A. Clark, N. Schindler, and S. N. Hastings. “Identifying patients who may benefit from deprescribing using machine learning predictions.” In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY, 72:S160–S160, 2024.
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External Relationships
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- University of Pennsylvania