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Ariela Rivkah Orkaby, M.D.

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Biography
education and training
Ben Gurion University, IsraelMD05/2010
Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA07/2013Internal Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA06/2014Geriatric Medicine
VA Boston Healthcare System/Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA06/2016Preventive Cardiology
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MAMPH05/2016Epidemiology
awards and honors
2015
Best Poster Award, American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting
2017
Young Investigator Travel Award, American College of Cardiology/American Geriatric Society
2017
Finalist (3rd place), Jay D. Coffman Early Career Investigator Award, American Heart Association
2018
Faculty Career Development Award, Brigham Research Institute
2021 - 2022
Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging Scholar
2023
Brigham & Women's Hospital Department of Medicine Exemplary Service Award

Overview

Research
research activities and funding
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  1. R01AG081287 (ORKABY, ARIELA R) Feb 15, 2024 - Jan 31, 2029
    NIH
    PREVENTABLE Frailty Ancillary Study
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. R01AG071807 (HOUSTON, DENISE) Sep 30, 2021 - May 31, 2026
    NIA
    The PREVENTABLE Physical Performance Ancillary Study
    Role: Co-I
  3. U19AG065188 (ALEXANDER, KAREN P) Sep 30, 2019 - Aug 31, 2026
    NIH
    PRagmatic EValuation of evENTs And Benefits of Lipid-lowering in oldEr Adults (PREVENTABLE)
    Role: Site-PI, VA Boston
  4. IK2CX001800 (ORKABY, ARIELA R) Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2023
    NIH
    Statins for Primary Preventive of Cardiovascular Disease and Frailty
    Role: Principal Investigator
  5. R03AG060169 (ORKABY, ARIELA R) Aug 1, 2018 - Jul 31, 2021
    NIH
    Frailty, Statins, and Cardiovascular Disease Burden in Older Adults
    Role: Principal Investigator

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  1. Bittner V, Linnebur SA, Dixon DL, Forman DE, Green AR, Jacobson TA, Orkaby AR, Saseen JJ, Virani SS. Managing Hypercholesterolemia in Adults Older Than 75?years Without a History of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: An Expert Clinical Consensus From the National Lipid Association and the American Geriatrics Society. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Apr 10. PMID: 40207842.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 45
  2. Bittner V, Linnebur SA, Dixon DL, Forman DE, Green AR, Jacobson TA, Orkaby AR, Saseen JJ, Virani SS. Managing hypercholesterolemia in adults older than 75 years without a history of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: An Expert Clinical Consensus from the National Lipid Association and the American Geriatrics Society. J Clin Lipidol. 2025; 19(2):215-237. PMID: 40250966.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 35
  3. Kositsawat J, Orkaby A. What Comes Next for Vitamin D Supplementation and Trials in Older Adults? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Apr; 73(4):1005-1007. PMID: 40079668.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 7
  4. Orkaby AR, Paik JM. Evidence on the benefits of statins for CVD prevention in older adults with CKD. Lancet Healthy Longev. 2025 Mar 04; 100698. PMID: 40058390.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 3
  5. Kochar B, Cheng D, Lehto HR, Jain N, Araka E, Ritchie CS, Bernacki R, Orkaby AR. Application of an Electronic Frailty Index to Identify High-Risk Older Adults Using Electronic Health Record Data. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Feb 21. PMID: 39982448.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 105
  6. Nicosia FM, Zamora K, Ashcraft L, Krautner G, Groot M, Kinosian B, Schubert CC, Chhatre S, Moriarty H, Intrator O, Schwartz AW, Orkaby AR, Prigge J, Brown RT. Study protocol: type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation study of routine functional status screening in VA primary care. Implement Sci Commun. 2025 Jan 31; 6(1):15. PMID: 39891277.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 1
  7. Loewenthal JV, Burton W, Kamali S, Ramani S, Wayne PM, Orkaby AR, Aronson L. Age Self Care-Resilience, a medical group visit program targeting pre-frailty: A mixed methods pilot clinical trial. J Frailty Aging. 2025 Feb; 14(1):100005. PMID: 39855890.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 6
    Fields: GerGeriatricsPhyPhysiologyTranslation:CTClinical Trials
  8. Abdallah MM, de Oliveira BD, DuMontier C, Orkaby AR, Nussbaum L, Gaziano M, Djousse L, Gagnon D, Cho K, Preis SR, Driver JA. Risk of Incident Cancer in Veterans with Diabetes Who Use Metformin Versus Sulfonylureas. J Cancer Prev. 2024 Dec 30; 29(4):140-147. PMID: 39790228; PMCID: PMC11706726.
  9. Singh N, Faye AS, Abidi MZ, Grant SJ, DuMontier C, Iyer AS, Jain N, Kochar B, Lieber SB, Litke R, Loewenthal JV, Masters MC, Nanna MG, Robison RD, Sattui SE, Sheshadri A, Shi SM, Sherman AN, Walston JD, Wysham KD, Orkaby AR. Frailty integration in medical specialties: Current evidence and suggested strategies from the Clin-STAR frailty interest group. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Nov 25. PMID: 39584362.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 64
    Fields: GerGeriatrics
  10. Seligman B, Wysham KD, Shahoumian T, Orkaby AR, Goetz MB, Osborne TF, Smith VA, Maciejewski ML, Hynes DM, Boyko EJ, Ioannou GN. Change in frailty among older COVID-19 survivors. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Dec; 72(12):3800-3809. PMID: 39520139; PMCID: PMC11684395.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 8
    Fields: GerGeriatricsTranslation:HumansCells
  11. Orkaby AR, Hshieh TT. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Risks of Delirium and Frailty in Heart Failure Patients. JACC Adv. 2024 Oct; 3(10):101273. PMID: 39345901; PMCID: PMC11437950.
  12. Qazi S, Seligman B, Preis SR, Rane M, Djousse L, Gagnon DR, Wilson PWF, Gaziano JM, Driver JA, Cho K, Orkaby AR, Million Veteran Program (MVP). Measuring Frailty Using Self-Report or Automated Tools to Identify Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Mortality: The Million Veteran Program. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Aug 20; 13(16):e033111. PMID: 39158558.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 5
    Fields: CarCardiologyVasVascular DiseasesTranslation:Humans
  13. Kim DH, Cheslock M, Sison SM, Orkaby AR, Schwartz AW. eFrailty: Making frailty assessment accessible to clinicians and researchers. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Jan; 73(1):318-322. PMID: 39134464; PMCID: PMC11735311.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 29
    Fields: GerGeriatrics
  14. Al-Ani A, Jamil Y, Orkaby AR. Treating Hypercholesterolemia in Older Adults for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events. Drugs Aging. 2024 Sep; 41(9):699-712. PMID: 39126433.
    Citations: 1 Article has an altmetric score of 1
    Fields: DruDrug TherapyGerGeriatricsTranslation:HumansPHPublic Health
  15. Gong Y, Song Y, Xu J, Dong H, Kramer DB, Orkaby AR, Dodson JA, Strom JB. Progression of frailty and cardiovascular outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Oct; 72(10):3129-3139. PMID: 39091085; PMCID: PMC11461101.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 22
    Fields: GerGeriatricsTranslation:Humans
  16. James K, Jamil Y, Kumar M, Kwak MJ, Nanna MG, Qazi S, Troy AL, Butt JH, Damluji AA, Forman DE, Orkaby AR. Frailty and Cardiovascular Health. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Aug 06; 13(15):e031736. PMID: 39056350.
    Citations: 1 Article has an altmetric score of 8
    Fields: CarCardiologyVasVascular DiseasesTranslation:Humans
  17. Jamil YA, Cohen R, Alameddine DK, Deo SV, Kumar M, Orkaby AR. Cholesterol Lowering in Older Adults: Should We Wait for Further Evidence? Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2024 Sep; 26(9):521-536. PMID: 38958924.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 2
    Fields: VasVascular DiseasesTranslation:HumansPHPublic Health
  18. Stone J, Kumar M, Orkaby AR. The role of statin therapy in older adults: best practices and unmet challenges. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2024 Jul; 22(7):301-311. PMID: 38940676; PMCID: PMC11331431.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 3
    Fields: CarCardiologyTheTherapeuticsVasVascular DiseasesTranslation:HumansPHPublic Health
  19. Razjouyan J, Orkaby AR, Horstman MJ, Goyal P, Intrator O, Naik AD. The Frailty Trajectory's Additional Edge Over the Frailty Index: Retrospective Cohort Study of Veterans With Heart Failure. JMIR Aging. 2024 Jun 27; 7:e56345. PMID: 38952001; PMCID: PMC11220725.
    Citations: 1
    Fields: GerGeriatricsMedMedical InformaticsTranslation:Humans
  20. Ariela Orkaby, Rachel E Ward. Frailty: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assessment, Management, and Prevention. Transitions, Trajectories, and Reversibility. 2024.View Publication.
  21. Kim SE, Azarian M, Naik AD, Park C, Horstman MJ, Virani SS, Intrator O, Amos CI, Orkaby A, Razjouyan J. What is the additive value of nutritional deficiency to VA-FI in the risk assessment for heart failure patients? J Nutr Health Aging. 2024 Jul; 28(7):100253. PMID: 38692206.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 1
    Fields: GerGeriatricsNutNutritional SciencesTranslation:Humans
  22. Loewenthal JV, Farkas EJ, McGough K, Tomita B, Wayne PM, Orkaby AR. Corrigendum to 'The impact of yoga on aging physiology: A review' [J Nutr Health Aging. 2024;28:100005]. J Nutr Health Aging. 2024 May; 28(5):100249. PMID: 38677138.
    Fields: GerGeriatricsNutNutritional Sciences
  23. Rosas Diaz AN, Troy AL, Kaplinskiy V, Pritchard A, Vani R, Ko D, Orkaby AR. Assessment and Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Older Adults with Frailty. Geriatrics (Basel). 2024 Apr 15; 9(2). PMID: 38667517; PMCID: PMC11050611.
    Citations: 1 Article has an altmetric score of 4
  24. Backman WD, DiCaro MV, Zuo X, Peralta A, Orkaby AR. Aligning goals with care: Advance directives in older adults with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2024 05; 47(5):697-701. PMID: 38597183; PMCID: PMC11187616.
    Fields: CarCardiologyPhyPhysiologyTranslation:Humans
  25. Lehto HR, Wang Y, Manning KA, Lakin JR, O’Shea LK, Landzberg MJ, Orkaby AR, Desai AS, Tulsky JA, Jain N, Bernacki R. Hopes, Expectations, and Informational Needs in Patients Undergoing Advanced Heart Failure Therapy Evaluations. JHLT Open. 2024.View Publication.
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