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Dr. Charles A. Cefalu completed a geriatric medicine fellowship and masters of science at Bowman Gray School of Medicine/Wake Forest University from 1990-1992. After a five-year tenure at Georgetown School of Medicine between 1992 and 1997, he currently serves as program director of the Louisiana State University geriatric medicine fellowship and chief of the section of geriatric medicine, department of medicine, at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

Dr. Cefalu chairs the clinical practice committee of the American Medical Directors Association and is a member of the public policy committee of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). He also serves on the nursing home initiative of the Louisiana Healthcare Review, the organization that oversees quality improvement by Medicare (CMS) for Louisiana nursing homes.

In 1996, Dr. Cefalu was one of ten family physicians chosen nationally to serve as a Residency Assistance Program/Hartford Geriatric Initiative Consultant for the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Dr. Cefalu was elected in 1999 to serve a three-year term as co-chair of the Council of State Affiliate Representatives (COSAR) and the board of directors of the AGS. He founded the AGS affiliate, the Louisiana Geriatric Society, in 1999. He was awarded Hartford Geriatrics Scholarship status in 2007 by the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs. Dr. Cefalu is the author of numerous regional, national, and international publications relative to geriatric medicine and has spoken at various local, regional, and national geriatric conferences.