Justin Mutter

Fellow

Ward K. Ensminger Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Virginia

Justin Mutter has been a Fellow with the Institute since 2017, where his scholarship focuses on historical political economy of aging, philosophy of clinical judgment and person-centered care, and social histories of regulatory medicine. He is the Ward K. Ensminger Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine in the Division of General, Geriatric, and Palliative Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where he also serves as Director of Geriatrics. He is also core faculty of UVA’s Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, where he directs the Center’s health humanities programs.

Justin completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia in English Literature and Religious Studies. He holds a Master of Studies in the Study of Religions and a Master of Sciences in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He subsequently completed his medical education at the UVA School of Medicine, and his residency training in Family Medicine at the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) in North Carolina. He then returned to UVA for his fellowship training in geriatric medicine.

In addition to his work with the Institute, Justin serves as a primary and consultative care geriatrician, with expertise in memory care, polypharmacy, clinical frailty. He is an active contributor to undergraduate and graduate medical education in the School of Medicine, as well as to health humanities and ethics education across UVA. He is currently at work on a book entitled, Common Sense Medicine: Renewing Healthcare’s Ethical Foundation.

New Strangers at the Bedside: A Genealogy of Quality Management in U.S. Health Care. Forthcoming from Social Research.

Neglected in the House of Medicine: Toward a Healthy Political Economy of Aging in America. The Hedgehog Review (2018);20(3): 46-56.

Mutter J, Liaw W, Moore M, Etz R, Howe A, Bazemore A. Core Principles to Improve Primary Care Quality Management. J Am Board Fam Med (2018); 31(6):931-40.