Lenise Cummings-Vaughn, MD, CMD provides care for older adults in the outpatient, inpatient and long-term care settings. She is the Medical Director for the Stay Healthy Clinic and Outpatient Program, the primary readmission prevention program at Barnes Jewish Hospital and a clinician in the Memory and Aging Project at the Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Since joining the university, her clinical and scholarly work has focused on factors affecting disability and morbidity in vulnerable older adult populations. She has been member of the Ethnogeriatrics Committee for the American Geriatrics Society since 2015 and co-authored a volume that systematically analyzes and discusses issues related to working in clinical and research settings with diverse populations of older adults. She has been involved in epidemiological and translational projects investigating testosterone deficiency, cognitive assessment, substance use, pollution, and inpatient risk stratification. Presently she is integrating screening and assessment of cognition and concepts of multimorbidity into re-hospitalization risk stratification and implementation of prevention strategies.