Conferences
The 26th Annual Nursing Home Conference "Spanning the Continuum of Care: Innovations in Geriatric Health Practice" will be held on Friday, September 27th, from 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM, at Monroe Community Hospital.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. James Pacala, Associate Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor, from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. His presentation is entitled “Where Does Geriatrics Go From Here?”
Brochure with registration and additional presentation information:
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This conference is sponsored by the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center.
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The Long Term Care Conference will provide geriatric health professionals throughout the continuum of care with clinical and practical topics relevant to health practice with older adults. Topics have been identified by past participants and faculty who provide health care to older adults. Some topics will represent increasing clinical concerns in the geriatric population or have important policy, cost and legal implications for health care. The conference is for health care providers from all disciplines. Including, physicians, physician assistants, medical directors, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, OT & PT, nursing home administrators and any other professionals interested in the field of geriatrics & aging.
Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds
Weekly presentations on multidisciplinary geriatric topics by an expert speaker. For more information, please call 585.760.6352.
The Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center at Monroe Community Hospital, Department of Medicine and the University of Rochester, Department of Medicine provides Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds on Wednesday mornings (8:00 am - 9:00 am) at Monroe Community Hospital, 435 E. Henrietta Road, Auditorium A - Hope 1. Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds meet from September - June. |
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| May 1 | ****NO GRAND ROUNDS**** |
| May 8 | Complimentary and Alternative Therapies in Older Adults Brian Day, DO NOTE: This Grand Rounds will be held in the Brass Chandelier Room |
| May 15 | Leading the Way in Alzheimer's Care and Research Anton Porsteinsson, MD |
| May 22 | Finding Our Way Home: Navigating Our Older Adults Through the Emergency Department Timothy Lum, MD |
| May 29 | Update on Healthcare Reform and ACOs Robert McCann, MD |
| Jun 5 | Outbreak: What's Going Around in Long Term Care Beth Cherella, MND |
| Jun 12 | LGBT QI Aging Lisa Downing, MD |
| Jun 19 | Keeping the Newly Diagnosed Dementia Patient Moving: A Summary of Recommendations and Resources Mary Rose Day, DO |
| Jun 26 | Shades of Grey (Matter): Med8ical Cognition, Medical Decision Makingk, and Health IT Joseph Nicholas, MD, MPH |
| NO GRAND ROUND DURING JULY & AUGUST. GRAND ROUNDS WILL RESUME ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2013. | |
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Geriatric Fellows' Conference
Weekly conference of subjects relative to geriatric medicine fellowship training including lectures, literature reviews and case presentations. For more information, please call 585.760.6353.
Monroe Community Hospital
435 E. Henrietta Road
Medical Administration Conference Room - Faith 2 West
July, 2012 - June, 2013
Topics covered during the year may include:
- Introduction to Functional Assessment and Geriatric Syndromes
- Incontinence and Falls
- Research
- Evidence Based Medicine
- Late Life Suicide
- Advanced Wound Care Products & Leg Ulcers
- Cancer & Aging
- Selected Topics in Hypertension and Heart Failure
- What are the Goals in Visits to Geriatricians? Patient, Family, Physician and Case Manager Perspectives
- Anti-Aging Medicine: The Hype and the Reality"
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Stroke Prevention & Post Stroke Care
- Antipsychotics in the Elderly
- Family Assessment
- Case Conference (Anxiety)
- Neurological Exam
- Neuropsych Assessment
- Pain
- Billing
- Physiology of Aging & Physical Exercise
- Palliative Care/Caregivers' Issues
- Issues in Oral Health in Older Adults
- Depression in the Elderly
Geriatric Journal Club
Interdisciplinary weekly rotating review of all clinically relevant journals pertinent to geriatrics. Faculty, fellows, and interdisciplinary health care professionals from the community participate in the reviews. For more information, please call 585.760.6352.
| Group 1 | Journal of General Internal Medicine
Journal of American Medical Association Age and Aging Lancet Neurology American College of Physicians Journal Club Advances in Wound Care Aging and Society |
| Group 2 | British Medical Journal
Amer. Journal of Public Health Gerontologist Journal of Gerontologic Nursing Journal Clinical Epidemiology Stroke Archives of Internal Medicine Journal of Nutrition in the Elderly |
| Group 3 | New England Journal of Medicine
Alzheimer's Disease and Associate Disorders Gerontology Journal of American Dietetic Association International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Journal of Applied Gerontology Generations |
| Group 4 | Annals of Internal Medicine
Journal of Gerontology: Medical Science Research on Aging Activities, Adaptation, and Aging Update on Drugs in the Elderly Nursing Research Geriatric Nursing |
| Group 5 |
American Journal of Medicine
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Journal of Aging and Health Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehab Journal of Geriatric Drug Therapy Special Care in Dentistry Aging and Human Development Psychology and Aging Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science |
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Aging Research Forum
Scheduled every four months at Monroe Community Hospital, a researcher in the area of Geriatrics or related to Geriatrics presents in the area of their study. For more information, please call 585.760.6354.
Links of Interest
American Medical Directors Association (AMDA)
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS)
State Society on Aging of New York (SSANY)
VA Healthcare Network Upstate NY - VISN 2
Get In Touch
Division of Geriatrics & Aging
Phone: 585.760.6352
Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program
Phone: 585.760.6353
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