Meenakshi Dagar
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine - (Clinical Series Track)
Contact
- (520) 694-4000
- Arizona Health Sciences Center, Rm. 2301
- Tucson, AZ 85724
- mdagar@arizona.edu
Degrees
- M.D. Medical Sciences
- Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Work Experience
- University of Arizona, Tucson (2021 - Ongoing)
- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (2014 - Ongoing)
- Univerisity of Arizona College of Medicine (2014 - Ongoing)
- Chitaranjan Seva Sadan (2007 - 2010)
Awards
- Torchbearer Award, Women In Medicine and Science Committee, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, 2023
- Fall 2023
- Best outpatient teaching attending of the year 2019
- Spring 2019
- outpatient attending of the year
- Summer 2018
- Best teaching attending in outpatient setting
- University of Arizona, Spring 2016 (Award Finalist)
- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Spring 2015 (Award Finalist)
Licensure & Certification
- Board certified Internal Medicine (2014)
- Arizona Medical Board, SIKKIM MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (2007)
- Board Certified Geriatrics (2022)
Interests
Teaching
Teaching medical students, residents and geriatric fellow. Advance care planning, dementia, osteoporosis.
Courses
No activities entered.
Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Obert, M., Ashoka, A., Starobinska, E., Dagar, M., Girard, N., Fuchs, D., & Bilal, J. (2021). A Case of Paraneoplastic Pemphigus with Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma. The American journal of medicine, 134(8), 980-982.
- Johnston, C. B., & Dagar, M. (2020). Osteoporosis in Older Adults. The Medical clinics of North America, 104(5), 873-884.More infoOsteoporosis and osteoporosis-related fractures are common causes of morbidity and mortality in older adults. Healthy adults should be counseled about measures to prevent osteoporosis. Women should be screened for osteoporosis beginning at age 65. Screening for osteoporosis in men should be considered when risk factors are present. Appropriate screening intervals are controversial. Women and men with osteoporosis should be offered pharmacologic therapy. Choice of therapy should be based on safety, cost, convenience, and other patient-related factors. Bisphosphonates are a first-line therapy for many patients with osteoporosis. Other treatments for osteoporosis include denosumab, teriparatide, abaloparatide, romosozumab, and selective estrogen receptor modulators.
- Kumar, A., Dagar, M., Herman, J., Iacobuzio-Donahue, C., & Laheru, D. (2015). CNS involvement in pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a report of eight cases from the Johns Hopkins Hospital and review of literature. Journal of gastrointestinal cancer, 46(1), 5-8.More infoCNS metastasis of pancreatic cancer is extremely rare, although systemic metastasis is very common. We present eight such cases with various forms of nervous system involvement.
Presentations
- Dagar, M. (2024). Mentation: Dementia, Depression, Anxiety and Delirium. Advances in Aging lecture Series - Age Friendly Health System.
- Dagar, M. (2024, May). Gynecologic Surgery in Geriatric Patients: Special Considerations
. American Gynecological & Obstetrical Society. - Dagar, M. (2022). Delirium, the Age-Friendly Health System, and the 4Ms. Advances in Aging Lecture Series.
- Dagar, M. (2022, November). Marijuana: A Friend or Foe in Older Adults. Medicine Grand Rounds.
- Dagar, M. (2021). Marijuana: A Friend or Foe in Older Adults. Advances in Aging Lecture Series.
- Dagar, M. (2019). Obesity-the growing problem. Medicine Grand Rounds.
Poster Presentations
- Dagar, M. (2023). ● CT for C2. AGS.
- Dagar, M. (2022). ● Prolia makes you pee – UTI Secondary to Denosumab . AZ ACP.
Case Studies
- Fuchs, D., Girard, N., Bilal, J., Ashoka, A., Starobinska, E., Dagar, M., & Obert, M. (2020. A Case of Paraneoplastic Pemphigus with Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma(pp Aug;134(8):980-982. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.01.028. Epub 2021 Feb 2).
