Dr. Tiffany Tsay is a fellowship-trained geriatrician and family medicine physician. She sees patients in primary care, through the Inova Brain Health and Memory Disorders Program, and in post-acute and long-term care facilities. Her clinical areas of interest include dementia care, delirium prevention, and the management of geriatric syndromes, such as falls and frailty.

Dr. Tsay is passionate about supporting individuals as they age in place and advocating for more age-friendly health systems and communities. She served on the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association’s Falls and Fall Prevention Clinical Practice Guideline Writing Committee and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Applied Gerontology.

Outside of work, Dr. Tsay enjoys yoga, crafting, classical music, and traveling.

Awards/Associations

• Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship, Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors and North American Primary Care Research Group, June 2025
• AAFP Family Medicine Leads Emerging Leader Institute Best Project Award, June 2021
• Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association Howard Guterman Best Poster Award, March 2021
• American Geriatrics Society
• Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association
• American Delirium Society
• American Academy of Family Physicians

Publications

Journal Articles

Kazdan, C., Lathia, A., Salazar, A. , Szumlinski, A., Thorson, D., Tsay, T. & Wynne, B. (2026). Falls and Fall Prevention in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting Clinical Practice Guideline. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 27(4):106033. doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2025.106033

Tsay, T., Shugrue, N., Charles, D., Migneault, D., McManus, R., Gruman, C., Robison, J. (2022). Predictors of Frailty Change in Home and Community-Based Services Populations. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 23(5):838-844. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.07.032.

Brown, C.H., Yanek, L., Healy, R., Tsay.T., Di, J., Goeddel, L., Young, D., Zipunnikov, V., Schrack, J. and the Cardiac Surgery Mobility Working Group. (2022). Comparing Three Wearable Accelerometers to Measure Early Physical Activity after Cardiac Surgery. JTCVS Open, 11, 176-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjon.2022.05.011

Oral Presentations

Ehrlich, A., Saxena, S., Skains, R., Tsay, T. & Umoh, M. (2026). Cracking the Code: Meeting CMS Age-Friendly Delirium Measures in the ED. American Delirium Society Annual Conferernce, Denver, CO. June 16, 2026.

Koeppel, L., Wynne, B. & Tsay, T. (2026). From Guidelines to Groundwork: Building Sustainable Fall Prevention Programs. Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Care Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA. March 28, 2026.

When a Small Wound Becomes a Big Cascade. Presented at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Geriatric Grand Rounds, Baltimore, MD. February 19, 2026.

Blood, Brain, and Bias: Navigating Intracranial Hemorrhage in an Aging Brain. Presented at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Geriatric Grand Rounds, Baltimore, MD. September 18, 2025.

Abstract Presentations

Tsay, T., Bhatnagar, S., Brady, M., Ebili, U., Huang, L., Zampino, M., Zelaya Mejia, M.G., Cai, C. & Sheikh, F. (2026). An Immersive Dementia Experience as a Catalyst for Reducing Antipsychotic Use [poster presentation]. American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Virtual. April 30, 2026

Tsay, T., Magidson, P.D., Umoh, M. & Oh, E. (2026). Teaching delirium concepts to student volunteers to support early delirium intervention in emergency department settings [poster presentation]. American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Virtual. April 29, 2026

Tsay, T., Colburn, J., & Schoenborn, L. (2026). Blood, Brain, and Bias: Navigating Intracranial Hemorrhage in an Aging Brain [poster presentation]. American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Virtual. April 29, 2026

Tsay, T., Elzawahry, H. (2025). The Perfect Storm: A Multi-Factorial Case of Altered Mental Status [poster presentation]. American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Chicago, IL. May 9, 2025.

Tsay, T., Zhao, S., Kerrigan, M., Dailo, V., Hwang, G., Michalak, S., Elzawahry, H., Krist, A. (2025). Evaluating the Impact of an Outpatient Geriatric Consult Service in a Primary Care Setting [poster presentation]. American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Chicago, IL. May 8, 2025.

Tsay, T., Zhao, S., Kerrigan, M., Dailo, V., Hwang, G., Michalak, S., Elzawahry, H., Krist, A. (2024). Evaluating the Impact of an Outpatient Geriatric Consult Service in a Primary Care Setting. North American Primary Care Research Group 52nd Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada. November 20-24, 2024.