Daniel Bluestein MD, MS, CMD, AGSF is a geriatrician and family physician who retired in June 2019 as Professor-Emeritus, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dan arrived at EVMS in 1981, having graduated from the University of Chicago (AB, 1971) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, (MD, 1975). He completed a residency in Family Medicine at the University of Maryland (1978), and a Robert Wood Johnson faculty development fellowship at the University of Iowa (MS, 1981). Dan previously served as EVMS Family Medicine’s research director, then as its geriatrics division director.

Dan has a long history of partnership with the Virginia Geriatric Education Center, VCU, and other statewide colleagues on Geriatrics training grants beginning in 2007-08, then for the period 2010-2015. More recently, he was the EVMS lead for the VGEC’s Virginia Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program 2015-2019 (GWEP 1).  Dan and his team developed EPIC-GP (Excellence in Primary Integrated Care-Geriatric Patients), a project which leveraged the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) as a means of integrating geriatrics in primary care.  This work was the basis for his selection as a 2016 Hartford Foundation Practice Change Leader. A subsequent Hartford award supported Dan’s collaboration with Senior Services of Southeast Virginia to improve follow-up care for high-risk high need seniors identified in AWVs. This effort received a 2019 National Association of Area Agencies on Aging Innovations Award and a Health Quality Innovators for Virginia runner-up award.

Presently, Dan is adjunct professor in the Virginia Geriatric Education Center, VCU Department of Gerontology.  He was a subject matter expert during VCUs Nursing Home COVID Action Network ECHO Program.  He is currently a subject matter expert for an ECHO program concerning dementia in primary care, is also working with other team members on a manuscript concerning academic engagement of retired gerontology/geriatric faculty in the age of COVID, and other writing projects.