Dr. Sullivan is a geriatrician, Professor of Medicine, and Associate Director of Education for the UConn Center on Aging at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.  She cares for older patients and teaches physicians and other health professional trainees; she served as the program director for the geriatric medicine fellowship for 21 years.  She is responsible for geriatrics educational activities at the UConn School of Medicine and mentors junior faculty in medical education research. 

Dr. Sullivan is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Graduate Medicine Education, an editorially independent, peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed journal focusing on graduate medical education.  Dr. Sullivan edited 5 editions of the Geriatric Review Syllabus, the last 2 as co-Editor-in-Chief.  She edited Exercise for Aging Adults – A Guide for Practitioners (Springer, 2015, second editon 2024) among other guides and educational products.

In 2013 Dr. Sullivan received the Dennis Jahnigen Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education in the Field of Geriatrics, from the American Geriatrics Society.  In 2015 she served as Distinguished Professor of Geriatric Medicine for the Society of General Internal Medicine. In 2022 she received the Rosemary Fisher, MD Female Physician Leadership Award, American College of Physicians.

Dr. Sullivan’s clinical interests include cognitive assessment, osteoporosis management, health promotion, and exercise as medicine for older adults. 

Dr. Sullivan opened the first Connecticut geriatric evaluation unit, for inpatients and outpatients, in 1983 at the VA West Haven (now VA Connecticut).  Dr. Sullivan has been listed in “Best Doctors” (in general medicine and geriatrics medicine categories) since 1999.

Dr. Sullivan’s undergraduate degree is from Harvard University and her medical and public health degrees from Yale Medical School.  She trained in internal medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar program at Yale.