Dr. Garry was born and raised on Long Island , New York. He was a Scholar in 
Medicine at Stony Brook Medical School and graduated with added distinction in research. He then moved to Boston where he did his Internal Medicine training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School. While at BIDMC, he received the Dr. James Tullis award for intellectual growth. Dr. Garry did his Geriatric Fellowship at Harvard Medical School and upon completion joined the faculty at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School.
While in Boston , Dr. Garry was instrumental in setting up the first Acute Care for Elderly Unit (ACE) in Massachusetts. ACE units are specialized geriatric units that improve outcomes for acutely ill seniors. Dr. Garry served as the medical director until relocating to Naples.
Dr. Garry has lectured nationally on such diverse topics as principles of geriatrics, acute care of the hospitalized elderly, and restraint reduction. He has also published two books with Harvard Health Publications titled: Living Independently in Your Later Years and Living Better, Living Longer: The secrets to healthy aging. He has written articles for CBSHealthWatch and Medscape.
He currently serves as medical director for two assisted living facilities, and is the subsection Chief of Geriatrics and the Vice Chair of the department of medicine at Naples Community Hospital. He is in private practice with Anchor Health Centers in Naples, Florida.
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| Education: |
- 1992 to 1996 Medical Degree with State University of New York at Distinction in research Stony Brook
- 1988 to 1992 Bachelors of Science State University of New York at Cum Laude, Departmental Stony Brook- Chemistry major
Honors
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| Postdoctoral Training: |
- 1999 to 2001 Fellow Geriatrics Harvard Geriatric fellowship
- 1997 to 1999 Resident Internal Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
- 1996 to 1997 Intern Internal Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
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| Licensure and Certification |
- 2007 American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- 2000 Added Qualification in Geriatrics
- 1999 American Board of Internal Medicine
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| Academic Appointments |
- 2001 to 2003 Instructor of Medicine- Harvard Medical School
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| Hospital Appointments |
- 2007 - present Vice Chair of Department of Medicine, Naples Community Hospital
- 2004 - Present Subsection Chief of Geriatrics- Naples Community Hospital
- 2001 to 2003 Clinician Educator/Division of Geriatrics- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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| Professional Positions |
- 2007 to Present Board Representative for Internal Medicine- Anchor Health Centers
- 2006 to Present Medical Advisor Parkinson Association of SouthWest Florida
- 2003 to Present Appointed by Governor Florida as a medical expert for Florida Agency for Health Care
Administration
- 2003 to Present Subsection Chief of Geriatrics- Naples Community Hospital
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| Major Administrative Responsibilities |
- 2007- Present Vice Chair of Department of Medicine, Naples Community Hospital
- 2007- Present Medical Advisor Parkinson’s Society of SouthWest Florida
- 2004- Present Subsection Chief of Geriatrics- Naples Community Hospital
- 2001 to 1/03 Responsible for scheduling speakers for Harvard’s Division on Aging Grand Rounds
- 2000 to 2001 Responsible for scheduling speakers for geriatric fellow’s conference
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| Major Committee Assignments |
2007 to present Medical Executive Committee |
Member NCH |
| 2004 to present Information Technology |
Member NCH |
| 2001 to 1/02 Capacity |
Member BIDMC |
| 2001 to 1/03 Information Technology |
Member BIDMC |
| Professional Societies |
- 2003 to Present Florida Medical Society Member
- 2003 to Present Collier County Medical Society Member
- 1997 to Present American Medical Association Member
- 1997 to Present Massachusetts Medical Society Member
- 1999 to Present American College of Physicians Member
- 2000 to Present American Geriatric Society Member
- 2000 to 2003 American Medical Director’s Association Member
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| Awards and Honors |
- 2007 Physician of the Year- Anchor Health Centers
- 2001 AMDA Futures: Scholarship to attend American Medical Directors Association
Conference
- 1999 Dr. James L. Tullis Award for “for intellectual growth and achievement as a third year resident”
- 1990 Scholar in Medicine: A program designed to accept a limited number of students
into Stony Brook’s medical school while a sophomore
- 1992 Honors degree in Chemistry
- 1990 Alpha Epsilon Delta: Premedical honor society
- 1988 Lion’s club and Union local 28 scholarship winner
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| Research |
- 2001 to 2002 Studying impacts of the ACOVE unit on outcomes of care for hospitalized elderly.
- 2000 to 2002 Characterization of elderly S.C.U.B.A. divers to learn how
the aging process has affected their ability to dive.
- 2000 to 2002 Curriculum development for obstetric and Gynecology residents during their geriatric rotation.
- 2000 to 2002A sub-investigator at one of the clinical sites in a multi site randomized, placebo controlled study looking at the effect of growth hormone secretogogue in frail, elderly subjects looking for improvements in physical performance and body composition
- 1990 to 1996 Conducted experiments to demonstrated that iron, selenium and citric acid are
critical to the growth of the “brown tide” microalga Aureococcus Anophagefferens.
- 1990 to 1996Developed techniques using atomic absorption to measure trace amounts of iron in
seawater.
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| Courses |
- 2/02 - Present Evaluator for Physical Diagnosis II
- 7/00 - Present OSCE- Evaluator for Harvard Medical School’s standardized cases
- 1999-01Physical Diagnosis II- Helped teach Harvard Medical Students the
fundamentals of performing a physical and history
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| Miscellaneous |
- 2000 to 2003 Freelance writer and medical editor for WebMD, Medscapes and CBSHealthWatch
- 2000 to 2003 Medical Editor for Harvard Medical School's Living Better, Living Longer: The secrets to healthy aging and ). Living Independently in Your Later Years.
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| Bibliography |
- Garry RT (Consultant), Coltrera F (writer) and Dadoly AM (editor). Living Independently in Your Later Years. Harvard Health Publications, 2002
- Garry RT (Consultant), Coltrera F (Writer) and Dadoly AM (Editor). Living Better, Living
Longer: The secrets to healthy aging. Harvard Health Publications. 2001
- Garry, R. T., Hearing, P. and Cosper, E. M. (1998). Characterization of a lytic virus
infectious to the bloom-forming microalga Aureococcus anophagefferens
(Pelagophyceae). Journal of Phycology 34:616-621.
- E. M. Cosper, R. T. Garry, A. J. Milligan, M. H. Doall. Iron, Selenium and Citric Acid
are Critical to the “Brown Tide” Microalga, Aureococcus Anophagefferens in
Toxic Phytoplankton Blooms in the Seas, T. J. Smayda and Y. Shimizu, Eds.
(Elsevier, New York, 1993), pp.667 - 673.
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