Timothy P. Daaleman
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Research Fellow in the Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina
B.A. Yale University
D.O. University of Health Sciences, College of
Osteopathic Medicine
M.P.H. University of North Carolina
Timothy P. Daaleman, DO, MPH, is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Research Fellow in the Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He was previously Research Director and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City where was also Assistant Scientist in the Center on Aging. Dr. Daaleman received a BA in sociology from Yale University, his medical degree from the University of Health Sciences-College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City, and MPH in epidemiology from the UNC School of Public Health MPH. After his family practice residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center, he completed an academic family medicine fellowship at the UNC.
Dr. Daaleman’s research interests include religion, spirituality, and medicine; social and cultural influences on chronic illness and end-of-life care; aging and the life course; patient-provider interactions; medical sociology, and; primary care. His work has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Medical Care, Social Science and Medicine, Annals of Family Medicine, and Bioethics Forum. He is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty scholar and has received funding from the National Institute on Aging and the Fetzer Institute to examine spiritual care for chronically ill older adults. Dr. Daaleman is a trustee of the Mushett Family Foundation and has served on advisory boards at the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, The Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics, and the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund.
