Kenneth Lam, MD

Education

MAS, 2021 - Clinical Research, University of California, San Francisco

Fellowship, 2019 - Geriatric Medicine, University of Toronto

Residency, 2017 - Internal Medicine, University of Toronto

MD, 2014 - , Western University

BSc, 2009 - Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

Honors and Awards

New Investigator Award, American Geriatrics Society, 2022
MSTAR Best Clinical Mentor Award, UCSF, 2019
Hollenberg Research Award, Education/Quality Improvement Research, University of Toronto, 2017
Honours Society, Western University, 2014

Publications

Lam K, Cenzer I, Ankuda CK, Levy CR, Smith AK, Covinsky KE, Kotwal AA. Social Participation Among Older Adults Before and After Long-Term Care Facility Entry. 2025. PMID: 40758370
Lam K, Garfield T, Anderson TS. Towards a Balanced View of Benefits and Harms in Deprescribing Trials. 2025. PMID: 40231793
Su K, Maitra MR, Peeples AD, Goodman O, Tsai J, Lee D, Lam K, Lubens P, Zamora K, Shak E, Brown RT. Developing an Intervention to Enhance Aging in Place for Older Veterans Living in Permanent Supportive Housing. 2025. PMID: 39878691
Lam K, Harrison JD, Haller L, Deardorff WJ, Sudore RL, Covinsky KE, Matlock DD, Dohan D. "Nobody Can Be Equipped for This": Advice From New Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities. 2025. PMID: 40035442
de Sola-Smith K, Growdon M, Chary AN, Portz JD, Lam K. Designing a Best Possible Caregiver History to Facilitate Disposition Planning for Older Adults in Emergency Departments. 2024. PMID: 40727537
Galske J, Chera T, Hwang U, Monin JK, Venkatesh A, Lam K, Leggett AN, Gettel C. Daily care hours among caregivers of older emergency department patients with dementia and undiagnosed cognitive impairment. 2024. PMID: 38970304
Lam K, Kleijwegt H, Bollens-Lund E, Nicholas LH, Covinsky KE, Ankuda CK. Long-term outcomes after rehabilitation in Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service beneficiaries. 2024. PMID: 38597342
Lam K, Cenzer I, Levy CR, Matlock DD, Smith AK, Covinsky KE. The Natural History of Disability and Caregiving Before and After Long-Term Care Entry. 2023. PMID: 37930717
Simning A, Caprio TV, Lam K. Older Adults Receiving Rehabilitation Services Are More Likely to Get Bathing and Toileting Equipment Installed. 2023. PMID: 36791425
Lam K, Cenzer I, Covinsky KE. Return to community living and mortality after moving to a long-term care facility: A nationally representative cohort study. 2022. PMID: 36420717
Lam K, Covinsky KE. Ensuring Assisted Living Provides the Assistance Residents Need. 2022. PMID: 36173635
Lam K, Haddock L, Yukawa M. More POLST forms are being completed in nursing homes, but is this meaningful? 2022. PMID: 35642687
Lam K, Gan S, Nguyen B, Jing B, Lee SJ. Sliding scale insulin use in a national cohort study of nursing home residents with type 2 diabetes. 2022. PMID: 35357692
Lam K, Price EL, Garg M, Baskin N, Dunchak M, Hooper S, Fabiny A, Eng JA. How an Interdisciplinary Care Team Reduces Prolonged Admissions Among Older Patients with Complex Needs 2021. PMID:
Savage RD, Hardacre K, Bashi AM, Bronskill SE, Faulkner C, Grieve J, Gruneir A, McCarthy LM, Chamberlain SA, Lam K, Stall NM, Zhu L, Rochon PA. Perspectives on ageing: a qualitative study of the expectations, priorities, needs and values of older people from two Canadian provinces. 2021. PMID: 34228777
Lam K, Shi Y, Boscardin J, Covinsky KE. Unmet Need for Equipment to Help With Bathing and Toileting Among Older US Adults. 2021. PMID: 33749707
Lam K, Lee SJ. Prediabetes-A Risk Factor Twice Removed. 2021. PMID: 33555307
Lam K, Lu AD, Shi Y, Covinsky KE. Assessing Telemedicine Unreadiness Among Older Adults in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2020. PMID: 32744593
Mehta N, Zhu L, Lam K, Stall NM, Savage R, Read SH, Wu W, Pop P, Faulkner C, Bronskill SE, Rochon PA. Health Forums and Twitter for Dementia Research: Opportunities and Considerations. 2020. PMID: 32894780
Lam K. Comment on: Antipsychotics and the Risk of Mortality or Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Hospitalized Adults. 2020. PMID: 32462736
Savage RD, Visentin JD, Bronskill SE, Wang X, Gruneir A, Giannakeas V, Guan J, Lam K, Luke MJ, Read SH, Stall NM, Wu W, Zhu L, Rochon PA, McCarthy LM. Evaluation of a Common Prescribing Cascade of Calcium Channel Blockers and Diuretics in Older Adults With Hypertension. 2020. PMID: 32091538
Lam K, Arnold CG, Savage RD, Stall NM, Zhu L, Wu W, Piggott K, Bronskill SE, Rochon PA. Does Physician Retirement Affect Patients? A Systematic Review. 2019. PMID: 31647590
Lam K, Rochon PA, Steinman MA. Often Off-label: Questionable Gabapentinoid Use Noted at Hospital Admission Warrants Deprescribing. 2019. PMID: 31507352
Lega IC, Bronskill SE, Campitelli MA, Guan J, Stall NM, Lam K, McCarthy LM, Gruneir A, Rochon PA. Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and risk of genital mycotic and urinary tract infection: A population-based study of older women and men with diabetes. 2019. PMID: 31264755
Lam K, Abrams HB, Matelski J, Okrainec K. Factors associated with attendance at primary care appointments after discharge from hospital: a retrospective cohort study. 2018. PMID: 30510042
Lam K, Gandell D. The Top Articles in Geriatrics 2016-2017. 2018. PMID: 30271509
Okrainec K, Lau D, Abrams HB, Hahn-Goldberg S, Brahmbhatt R, Huynh T, Lam K, Bell CM. Impact of patient-centered discharge tools: A systematic review. 2017. PMID: 28182809
Fralick M, Lam K, Himmel ME. Toxic Alcohol Calculations and Misinterpretation Of Laboratory Results-Reply. 2016. PMID: 27479670
Himmel ME, Lam K, Fralick M. Hemodialysis in a Healthy Patient--A Case of an Erroneous Laboratory Result: A Teachable Moment. 2016. PMID: 26903235
Lam K. "And you, my father, there on the sad height". 2014. PMID: 24446458
Lam K, Hwang SW, Dhalla IA, Hota S, Thorpe K, Palda VA, Brown A, Klein DJ. Creating the right evidence for system change. 2013. PMID: 24034773