Profile: Dr. Bynum’s major research interest lies in the area of the effectiveness and efficiency of health care delivery to high-risk elderly including the old and cognitively impaired. She has been developing and using Medicare claims-based methods to study this vulnerable population and performance of health care providers. Dr. Bynum’s recently awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars Program is to study how well local health care systems perform in supporting high quality decision-making among the oldest old.