Christina Prather, MD

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 ⸺  KEYNOTES & CONSULTING

Aging is
Changing

A geriatrician, speaker, and consultant helping health systems, educators, employers, and communities build knowledge and confident action about aging and brain health.
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⸺ A SHIFT IN PERSPECTIVE ⸺

We spend our lives trying to avoid aging, fearing it. We have to learn to value it, prepare for it, and embrace it.

CHRISTINA PRATHER, MD
Lived Experience From The Exam Room To You

The doctor who wants you to reconsider how you think about aging.

Dr. Prather started as an engineer, became a geriatrician and palliative care physician, and never stopped asking the same question: How do we help older adults live with greater dignity, function, and joy—and ensure they receive the healthcare they need when it matters most?

Over the course of her career, she has built and transformed clinical programs, led healthcare teams, taught the next generation of clinicians, and cared for thousands of older adults and their families at a major academic medical center in Washington, DC.

Today, she brings that experience into communities, onto stages, and across health systems—helping patients and families ask better questions, teaching clinicians to think differently about aging, and empowering organizations to reimagine what excellent care for older adults can and should be.

CREDENTIALS & CONTRIBUTIONS

Shaping Better Care for Older Adults

Triple Board-Certified

Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Hospice & Palliative Medicine.
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Educated the Next Generation

A longtime medical educator and curriculum leader who has taught medical students, physicians, interdisciplinary teams, communities, and national audiences about aging, dementia, and serious illness.

20 Years of Clinical Experience

Caring for older adults across hospitals, clinics, homes, and end-of-life settings—with expertise in dementia, geriatric trauma, health care transitions, and palliative care.

Built & Led Programs

Co-founded the GW Institute for Brain Health and Dementia and led a Memory Clinic and Division of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine at a major academic medical center.

Changed Care Beyond the Clinic

Co-led the DC Brain Health Needs Assessment and partnered with communities and healthcare organizations to improve dementia education and the care of older adults.

Published & Recognized

Published in leading journals including JAMA Health Forum, Alzheimer’s & Dementia, and JAGS, with awards recognizing contributions to geriatrics and medical education.

COLLABORATIONS AND MEDIA

FIND YOUR STARTING POINT

What are you trying to IMPACT?

Speaking
Media & Storytelling
Healthcare Innovation
Education

Education

Continuing medical education (CME) course design, grand rounds, graduate medical education (GME) curricula, and train-the-trainer programs, recognized with teaching awards from the American College of Physicians and the University of North Carolina.
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Healthcare Innovation

An assessment and pathway design engagement that builds age-friendly, brain-health practice into daily workflow for the whole person.
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Speaking

A keynote or workshop tailored to your audience, so people leave curious about aging, and brain health instead of afraid of it.
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Media & Storytelling

An interview, feature, or on-camera segment with a clinician who can explain aging, brain health and caregiving without jargon and without flattening the nuance.
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Talks for the Questions We’re All Asking

Clear, practical conversations about aging, memory, caregiving, and what comes next.

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SIGNATURE

Is this Normal?

The aging brain, decoded.
Clear, practical conversations about aging, memory, caregiving, and what comes next.
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SIGNATURE

Plan to Thrive

Anticipatory aging intelligence.
Protect brain health, preserve independence, and design the next chapter before crisis makes the decisions for you.
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RECOMMENDED FOR EVERYONE

Dementia, Demystified

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Trade dread for understanding, one clear conversation at a time.
What you need to know about diagnosis, new treatments, changing abilities, and what comes next.
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WHAT WE ALL NEED TO HEAR

When Memory Loss Becomes a Family Affair

Navigating Dementia, Changing Roles, and Difficult Decisions
Navigate changing roles, difficult decisions, family dynamics, and a healthcare system that often expects caregivers to do it all alone.
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RECOMMENDED FOR EVERYONE

What Good Care Looks Like

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Know what to expect from your clinicians—and when to ask for more.
Learn how to prepare for medical visits, ask the questions that matter, understand what your healthcare team should be doing, and navigate follow-up with greater clarity and confidence.
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WHAT DO YOU NEED?

Personalized for You

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Reach out for an intake to see how Dr. Prather can support your organization.
A talk tailored to your audience and their needs. 
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Real conversations. 
Real impact.

On stage, on camera, in audio and in print, Dr. Christina Prather brings her expert experience on brain health, caregiving, and health care delivery to healthcare, industry, and community audiences.

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Podcasts

Interview with Lee Ann Brownlee Necessary on the We're Good Podcast

LISTEN TO EPISODE

The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC)'s Gemcast

LISTEN TO EPISODE

Interview with Drs Adam Friedman and Jaya Manjunath on the Elderderm Podcast

LISTEN TO EPISODE
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Documentary 

A DC Health funded documentary in partnership with Innovation Horizons highlighting the stories of individuals and caregivers living with dementia

For health systems, medical practices & aging services

Better aging doesn't happen by accident. It happens by design.

Dr. Prather partners with health systems, medical groups, employers, and communities to build age-friendly care and brain-health initiatives.
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Assessment

Brain-health needs assessments, age-friendly readiness reviews, and gap analysis, the kind of work that informed the District’s State Plan for Alzheimer’s.

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Education

CME-accredited course design, grand rounds, fellowship curricula, and staff and train-the-trainer programs that change how care is delivered.
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Strategic Planning

Vision, program development implementation, and sustainability for long term age-friendly care.
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Also: Medical-legal consultation for attorneys on geriatric care, capacity, and dementia.
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⸺ WORKING TOGETHER

Every conversation starts with what you're trying to change!

STEP ONE

Share your challenge

Tell me what you’re trying to solve, build, teach, or change—whether that’s a health system initiative, an implementation challenge, an educational need, or a conversation you want to bring to your audience.
STEP TWO

Define Success

We’ll clarify your goals, audience, and what would make working together genuinely useful.
STEP THREE

Engage

Strategic planning, an implementation toolkit, curriculum or CME, a workshop, or a keynote—designed for your organization.
STEP FOUR

Long Term Connections 

Follow-up resources and takeaways your audience can actually put to use long after the room clears.
⸺ WORKING TOGETHER

Every conversation starts with what you're trying to change!

STEP 1

Share your challenge

Tell me what you’re trying to solve, build, teach, or change—whether that’s a health system initiative, an implementation challenge, an educational need, or a conversation you want to bring to your audience.
STEP 2

Define Success

We’ll clarify your goals, audience, and what would make working together genuinely useful.
Step 3

Engage

Strategic planning, an implementation toolkit, curriculum or CME, a workshop, or a keynote—designed for your organization.
⸺ LET'S TALK

Bring Dr. Prather to your stage, system, or community.

Tell us a bit about yourself or your organization and what you're hoping to achieve. Please don't include personal health information. This form is not for requesting clinical care or medical advice. Christina Prather, MD, PLLC is not a medical practice.

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