Dr Christina Prather is the Director of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. She co-directs the Memory Evaluation and Treatment Clinic and provides outpatient palliative care in the GW Palliative and Supportive Care Clinic. She is an Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. A Maryland native, she earned an engineering degree in biological resources and biomedical engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park and completed medical school in Baltimore at the University of Maryland. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.