Carole Annalise Baraldi, MD

Dr. Carole Baraldi, M.D., is an associate professor in the Division of Geriatrics and a faculty member at the George E. Whalen Veterans Affairs Medical Center Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC). She is board certified in Geriatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is a Certified Medical Director in Post-Acute and Long Term Care. Her clinical interests include optimizing care of frail, geriatric surgical patients and care of older adults in long-term settings including skilled nursing, assisted living as well as in the home. Her academic interests include education of medical students, residents and fellows in the clinical setting, multi-disciplinary care models in the care of geriatric surgical patients, transitions of care and end-of-life care models.

Dr. Baraldi received her M.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She received specialty training in geriatrics from the University of Utah School of Medicine. After completing her training in 2000, Dr. Baraldi worked in the Salt Lake City community in skilled nursing care, hospice care and primary care geriatrics. In 2009 she returned to an academic career, She is currently a member of the American Geriatric Society and the American Medical Directors Association. Since she completed her training, she has served as medical director in several skilled nursing facilities and hospices in Salt Lake City. She previously served as the Geriatric Fellowship Program Director at the University of Utah for 13 years, and as a core faculty educator in the medical school Clinical Methods Curriculum for 4 years. She is currently the medical director helping create and grow a GRECC demnostration project: Care Coordination in Geriatric Surgery at the VAMC.