Dr. Lindquist is a Geriatrician and Chief of the Division of Geriatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her patient-centered research focuses on helping older adults age-in-place, when they develop Alzheimer’s disease, through home and community-based resources and supporting caregivers. She has extensive experience partnering in research with community organizations and community members for recruitment, study implementation, data collection, and dissemination. She is Principal Investigator on three Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded awards – 1.) Improving Health Systems Award: The Lindquist Lab created a web-based tool (PlanYourLifespan.org) to connect older adults to home and community-based services that would enable them to live in their communities and age-in-place. They then conducted a 385 person multi-site randomized control trial of older adults which showed that PlanYourLifespan.org was an effective research to assist older adults in planning for their health goals and age-in-place needs. 2.) Open Science Award – where the Lindquist Lab was selected to pilot test an open science data repository for our PCORI research data and 3.) Dissemination Award - to engage community partners in Hawaii (Pacific-Islanders) and Chicago (African-American) to disseminate/implement PlanYourLifespan.org to the older adults and caregivers in their communities through a blog-based tool and train-the-trainer format. With this last dissemination award, the Lindquist Lab reached over 300,000 community users who accessed PlanYourLifespan nationally.

Besides receiving three PCORI grants, Dr. Lindquist has been awarded, as a principal investigator, two R01 level grants from the NIA to 1.) longitudinally understand how PlanYourLifespan.org impacts older adults in a previously funded cohort (LitCog n=700, single site: Chicago, IL) with extensive cognitive testing and 2.) develop and test an AI-based negotiations curriculum to teach caregivers how to communicate with seniors and advocate for them in the health care system. She has received an R21 from the NIA longitudinally examining cognition loss and reversibility after hospital discharge and an R21 from AHRQ assessing how family caregivers and older adults use electronic health records portals (as proxy or patient). Dr. Lindquist has been a co-investigator on multiple NIH and CMS funded studies.

Dr. Lindquist provides clinical care for older adults in my Geriatrics Clinic where She was previously Clinical Practice Director, in charge of all outpatient geriatrics operation. Dr. Lindquist is also Medical Director of the Clare at Watertower, a CMS 5 star Continuing Care Retirement Community that encompasses independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, memory care, and long term care.