Dr. Goodarzi is an academic geriatrician. Her work has focused on mental illness and neuropsychiatric symptoms in older adults or those with neurodegenerative disorder. She also examines the experiences of older adults living in supportive living and long term care with frailty, concomitant mood disorders or neuropsychiatric symptoms.  Her current work looks at the development of clinical pathways for mood disorders, frailty and dementia across the care continuum in clinic, long term care and emergency room. She is co-lead for the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Team – working on quality improvement and implementation of evidence based interventions to help older adult care.