Nimit Agarwal

Nimit Agarwal

MD

Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Program Director Geriatrics Fellowship
Banner University Medical Center, Phoenix AZ (BUMC-P)
University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ (UA COM-P)
President, Arizona Geriatrics Society

Nimit Agarwal MD is the inaugural Director of Division of Geriatric Medicine at BUMC-P and UA COM-P. Dr Agarwal received his medical degree from University of Delhi, India, followed by residency training in Internal Medicine at Harlem Hospital, Columbia University, New York. He then completed fellowship training in Geriatric Medicine at Loyola University in Illinois. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, and Geriatric Medicine.
He currently serves as the Program Director of the Geriatric Medicine fellowship program. Dr. Agarwal is a clinician, educator, researcher, and innovator. He has been able to establish innovative models of care, leveraging the capabilities of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to create smart protocols that can assist with identifying gaps in care related to delirium identification, mobility challenges and markers of increased complications during hospitalization of older adults. Under his leadership, Banner – UMC Phoenix received the Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation from the American College of Emergency Physicians and became an exemplar in the Age Friendly