Rachel Jantea, MD, MS

Biography

Rachel Jantea, MD, MS, is an assistant professor of medicine in the Joan & Stanford Alexander Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School. She is Director of Education for the UTHealth Houston Center for Interprofessional Collaboration, where she directs interprofessional education and practice programs for UTHealth Houston and its seven schools. She is Director of Education and Training for the UTHealth Houston Institute on Aging, where she supports the innovation, development, and dissemination of geriatrics interprofessional education programs to advance Age-Friendly care. She is the recipient of an HRSA-funded Geriatric Academic Career Award to develop innovative approaches to Age-Friendly education and training in the acute care setting, with a focus on quality improvement in delirium and dementia care. She is an advocate for Age-Friendly Health Systems and serves on the Delirium Prevention Task Force at Memorial Hermann Hospital-TMC, where she is an attending physician on the Geriatrics Consult Service and Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) Unit. Finally, she serves as a councilmember for McGovern Medical School at the Texas Joint Admission Medical Program.