Laura K. Byerly, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Byerly is a native to the Portland area. She received her degree in history from Boston University, during which time she interned and worked at the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and developed an interest in working with older adult patients and their families. She received her medical school degree from OHSU and completed her internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. Throughout her training, her interests in geriatric medicine grew to include also educating the next generation of providers about caring for older adults. She completed fellowships in both geriatric medicine, as well as health professions education, at UCSF. During her fellowships, she developed and implemented novel geriatrics curricula while concurrently researching the roles employed by health professions students on interprofessional geriatric care teams. She returned home to Portland and joined the OHSU Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics team in 2018.

Dr. Byerly strives to utilize a holistic and team-based approach to the care of older adults that brings the patient and family's goals to the forefront of care. As a clinician educator, she actively encourages and supports the education of trainees of all professions and levels in the geriatric care environment.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 2012, Oregon Health & Science University

  • Internship

    • Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

  • Residency

    • Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

  • Fellowship

    • Geriatric Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    • Health Professions Education Evaluation & Research, University of California-San Francisco and San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Areas of interest

  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Interprofessional Education
  • Undergraduate Medical Education and Curriculum Development

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Geri Models of Care (MOC)

    MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources
    1. Laura K. Byerly
    2. Josette Rivera

  • Getting outside the box

    Advances in Health Sciences Education
    1. Laura K. Byerly
    2. Leslie C. Floren
    3. Michi Yukawa
    4. Bridget C. O’Brien

  • Fostering Interprofessional Geriatric Patient Care Skills for Health Professions Students Through a Nursing Facility-Based Immersion Rotation

    MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources
    1. Laura K. Byerly
    2. Leslie C. Floren
    3. Michi Yukawa

  • SMART-R

    Academic Psychiatry
    1. Deanna Chaukos
    2. Emma Chad-Friedman
    3. Darshan H. Mehta
    4. Laura Byerly
    5. Alper Celik
    6. Thomas H. McCoy
    7. John W. Denninger

  • Risk and Resilience Factors Associated with Resident Burnout

    Academic Psychiatry
    1. Deanna Chaukos
    2. Emma Chad-Friedman
    3. Darshan H. Mehta
    4. Laura Byerly
    5. Alper Celik
    6. Thomas H. McCoy
    7. John W. Denninger

  • Three Lenses on Learning

    Journal of graduate medical education
    1. Laura K. Byerly
    2. Patricia S. O'Sullivan
    3. Bridget C. O'Brien

  • Clinical research risk assessment among individuals with mild cognitive impairment

    American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
    1. Angela L. Jefferson
    2. Hugo Carmona
    3. Katherine A. Gifford
    4. Susan Lambe
    5. Laura K. Byerly
    6. Nicole G. Cantwell
    7. Yorghos Tripodis
    8. Jason Karlawish

  • Medical student education program in Alzheimers disease

    BMC medical education
    1. Angela L. Jefferson
    2. Nicole G. Cantwell
    3. Laura K. Byerly
    4. Darby Morhardt

  • Characterization of activities of daily living in individuals with mild cognitive impairment

    American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
    1. Angela L. Jefferson
    2. Laura K. Byerly
    3. Susan Vanderhill
    4. Susan Lambe
    5. Sarah Wong
    6. Al Ozonoff
    7. Jason H. Karlawish

  • Clock drawing performance in cognitively normal elderly

    Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
    1. Emily J. Hubbard
    2. Veronica Santini
    3. Christiaan G. Blankevoort
    4. Karin M. Volkers
    5. Melissa S. Barrup
    6. Laura Byerly
    7. Christine Chaisson
    8. Angela L. Jefferson
    9. Edith Kaplan
    10. Robert C. Green
    11. Robert A. Stern

  • Decisional capacity for research participation in individuals with mild cognitive impairment

    Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
    1. Angela L. Jefferson
    2. Susan Lambe
    3. David J. Moser
    4. Laura K. Byerly
    5. Al Ozonoff
    6. Jason H. Karlawish