David W. Hancock, PhD

David W. Hancock, PhD, is an instructor of gerontology in emergency medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a National Institutes of Health–funded investigator.

Dr. Hancock earned his doctorate in experimental social psychology and received a K01 career development award from the National Institute on Aging. His work focuses on aging and emergency medicine, with emphasis on geriatric injury prevention, elder mistreatment, suicide, and prehospital emergency medical services outcomes.

At Weill Cornell Medicine, his research integrates advanced analytics, longitudinal study design, and measure development to improve emergency care for older adults. His work includes development of a tool to assess elder mistreatment among dementia caregivers.

Dr. Hancock is active in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), where he has served on the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine Grants and Awards Committee and contributed to the SAEM Research Committee and the Informatics, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence Interest Group.