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Geriatric Medicine & Geriatric Psychiatry Conference 2010 – October 15-16, 2010

admin — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:13:54 +0000

Geriatric Medicine & Geriatric Psychiatry Conference 2010
Pathway to Empowerment: Living Well With Chronic Diseases

Friday, October 15, 2010
&
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Delta Markham Hotel, Markham, ON

October 15, 2010

07:30— 08:00 Registration, Breakfast & Exhibits
08:00—08:10 Welcome & Introductions
08:10—09:10 What Does Living Well Mean? Panel Discussion
Debbie Barton, Gabriel Chan MD, Goran Eryavec MD, Judy Murray PT
09:10— 09:55 Hypertension in the Elderly Martin Strauss MD
09:55—10:20 Coffee Break & Exhibit Viewing
10:20—11:05 Concurrent Workshops—participants will choose 1 of 2 workshops
Workshop A: Chronic Pain & Depression: A Mindfulness Based Approach
Marjorie Hamm ond RN & Janet Murc hison OT
Workshop B: Early Detection and Treatment of Dementia Joyce Lee MD
11:05—11:10 Room Change
11:10—11:55 Concurrent Workshops—participants will choose 1 of 2 workshops
Workshop C: Common Visual Problems in the Elderly Ken Mandakakis MD
Workshop D: Assessing Driver Fitness Tamara Bishop RN & John Petrosoniak
11:55—12:55 Lunch and Exhibit Viewing
12:55—13:55 Osteoporosis: New Perspectives in Fracture Prevention and Treatment Gabriel Chan MD & Hossein Mehdian MD
13:55—14:20 Coffee Break & Exhibit Viewing
14:20—15:05 Concurrent Workshops—participants will choose 1 of 2 workshops
Workshop E: Behaviour in Dementia Goran Eryavec MD & Therese Lawlor RSW
Workshop F: Weight Loss & Nutritional Problems in the Elderly Rupert Abdalian MD
15:05—15:10 Room Change
15:10— 15:55 Concurrent Workshops—participants will choose 1 of 2 workshops
Workshop G: Sexual Dysfunction in the Elderly Roger Buckley MD
Workshop H: Congestive Heart Failure Janet Coldwell RN & Phil Myron MD
15:55 Adjournment for the Day

October 16, 2010 Theme: Cancer as a Chronic Disease

08:00—08:30 Registration, Breakfast & Exhibits
08:30—08:35 Welcome & Introductions
08:35—09:35 Principles of Geriatric Oncologic Practice Danny Robson MD
09:35—09:40 Room Change
09:40—10:25 Concurrent Workshops—participants will choose 1 of 2 workshops
Workshop I: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Older Adults with Cancer Shabbir Alibhai MD
Workshop J: Prognosis, Palliation and Meaning Making in the Elderly Glendon Tait MD
10:25—10:50 Coffee Break & Exhibit Viewing
10:50—11:35 Interdisciplinary Management of Breast Cancer Nancy Down MD & Paula Fishman MD
10:35—11:40 Room Change
11:40—12:25 Concurrent Workshops—participants will choose 1 of 2 workshops
Workshop K: Diagnosis and Management of Depression in the Geriatric Oncology Patient Millie Paupst MD
Workshop L: Dolor and Sense—A Practical Guide to Cancer Pain Management Niren Shetty MD
12:25 Conference Adjournment

Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry Meeting – September 22, 2010

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:26:40 +0000

Another event that promises to be really great!! All of you students interested in aging, consider geriatric psychiatry – if you like a challenge, complexity and finding new ways of assisting your patients, this may be a meeting of interest to you all!!

From their website: www.cagp.ca/ASM2010

“The CAGP board is pleased this year to partner with the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in order to assemble a lively and interactive program focusing on aspects of geriatric mental health from prevention to palliation. The Division of Geriatric Psychiatry has historically presented CME events geared towards family practitioners, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and other allied health workers. With this year’s partnership, we combine the academic presentations of the CAGP with practical clinical presentations. The topics this year have been requested by attendees at several recent CAGP meetings, and we know that you find will our speakers’ approaches interesting and informative

Susan Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and she will be providing the keynote address on the topic of palliative approaches in dementia. Nathan Herrmann, Professor of Psychiatry at University of Toronto will be giving a plenary presentation about side effects of antipsychotics in the elderly. The final plenary presentation will be an interactive discussion of behavioral approaches to the treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia, by Rob Madan, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

We had an unprecedented number of applications for workshop presentations this year, and have chosen an excellent group of diverse workshops that will appeal to attendees of the various backgrounds. Workshop topics include a palliative approach to behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia, sexuality in dementia, cognitive behavioral approaches for patients with schizophrenia, and ethical issues in seniors’ outreach. Following up on last year’s theme of treatment-resistance, we have an update on approaches to treatment resistant depression in the elderly including transcranial magnetic stimulation. For non-psychiatrists, we have a workshop update on geriatric psychopharmacology including antidepressants, cholinesterase inhibitors and anticholinergic drugs. Finally, an exciting workshop will focus on education and the path towards geriatric psychiatry finally becoming a subspecialty.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Susan Mitchell, Harvard Medical School
Advanced Dementia: The Patient and Family Experience

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Dr. Nathan Hermann, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Antipsychotics for Dementia: Has the balance finally tipped?

Dr. Robert Madan, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and University of Toronto
Non-pharmacological Approaches for the Treatment of Behavioral Disturbances in Dementia

Click here for program details

Meeting Location and Host Hotel

The Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square
Toronto, ON M5J 1A6
For Booking click here

We encourage you to join us in downtown Toronto on Wed Sept 22, 2010 at the Westin Harbour Castle for this collaborative CME and Scientific update on geriatric psychiatry.

House Calls with my Camera

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:42:10 +0000

If you are in Toronto at any point between now (July 2010) and October 2010 please go see Dr. Mark Nowaczynski’s fabulous photography exhibit. In case you (gasp!) don’t know who Dr. Nowaczynski is, please google “House Calls” the film from the National Film Board of Canada (it even won a Gemini!). Wonderful film, highly recommended for everyone to see. Dr. Nowaczynski heads a non-profit program in Toronto, Ontario that allows a special health team to visit vulnerable seniors at home.

This is the official blurb as well as the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) contact:

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents House Calls with my Camera, a poignant series of photo essays capturing the lives of the patients of Toronto physician Dr. Mark Nowaczynski. The 36 powerful photos taken by Dr. Nowaczynski, many of which are on display for the first time, document the hidden world of his house-bound patients, revealing the startling lack of medical and supportive home care services of this vulnerable population

Web: http://www.rom.on.ca/news/releases/public.php?mediakey=wyau2s01zp

Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health – Student Poster Competition

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:02:39 +0000

The Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH) is pleased to organize a poster competition at the CCSMH 4th National Conference, September 27 & 28, 2010 at the Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax.

The theme of the conference is “Connecting Research & Education to Care in Seniors’ Mental Health” and we want to showcase students’ important contributions to the study of seniors’ mental health. I’d like to ask for your help in sharing this opportunity with students in the Community Health and Epidemiology programs.

Sponsored by the Geriatric Medicine Research Unit at Dalhousie, winner(s) will receive $250 and a letter/certificate highlighting their accomplishment. We believe this is a unique opportunity to recognize -
and hopefully inspire – students who are committed to the study of seniors’ mental health.

The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday, July 16, 2010. Attached is an information sheet that outlines conference themes, submission requirements & guidelines, and judging criteria. Full conference details are also available online at http://www.ccsmhevents.ca/studentposters.html

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:19:33 +0000

And they say art is not important! Hah!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/07/alzheimers.art.class/index.html?eref=time_health

Summer time!!

magda — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:11:05 +0000

Hello everyone!! Yes it has been a while since I posted here. Many changes have occurred since March, most of them very exciting (and a few I can do without, but change is good regardless).

I have another fabulous resource to share with you all. The University of Iowa Geriatric Education Center created these wonderful simulated cases which you can find at http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/igec/resources-educators-professionals/geriasims/acadMenu.asp

Some of the best virtual geriatric education cases I have done in my life! Highly recommended, and kudos to the U of I for all their hard work.

We will be getting a brand new website very soon, and all this information will most likely migrate there. Meanwhile, I will do my best to try and update this place more often!

Stay committed to older adults, you will be one too!

It’s been a while…

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:54:28 +0000

Hello!! It’s been quite a while since I posted last but many things have been going on, so I was taking the time to get as much done as I could before exam time!! Our National GIG idea is coming to fruition which is really exciting, as is our presence within our College. I will update more and post more articles very soon! Happy almost Spring!

Just to leave you with something here is a great link to a Geriatric Radiology tutorial at the University of Auckland in New Zealand:
http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/faculty/ltu/geriatric_radiology/geriatric.aspx

Remote medicine and its possibilities in Geriatrics…

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:34:48 +0000

I am a big technology buff, I will be the first to admit that bias. Regardless, I think that remotely delivered medicine (and I include telehealth aspects in this such as remote link visits with specialists), is a very important future direction of all medicine directed at communities that are far removed from large urban centres. The way this relates to older people, especially, is the fact that many of our communities include mostly older adults, as they are the least likely to just leave their homes and move to the city (I do recognize this as a very generalized statement). This link gives you only a small taste of what is possible, but it is SO wonderful!! The problem I see is that we already have the technology and expertise to make these remote medicine opportunities a reality as part of primary care, yet we don’t, and that is something that we need to change. So if anyone is interested in pursuing an area of medicine that will have to grow, out of necessity of providing excellent care to our patients who choose to live in non-urban locales, the world is your oyster.

Link: http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20091202/articles/912029971?Title=LMH-gets-telemedicine-robot

Portal of Online Geriatric Education

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:28:20 +0000

I am always on the lookout for good educational resources that can be utilized online by residents, practicing physicians, medical students, etc. I found a really great portal called POGO (or the portal of online geriatric education), which is a very thorough database of thousands of materials, both virtual and paper based, that have been created by various institutions to assess and teach geriatric medicine skills. It’s great, I recommend it – once in a while I will post a link to resources that I find especially useful. The link is http://www.pogoe.org/products?lrt_tid%5B%5D=31&ila_tid%5B%5D=250

Happy Holidays!!

Canadian Stroke Strategy

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:14:16 +0000

For lack of time in exam season I am posting a great link I found instead of my usual postings – I am sure you will find it useful! Happy November!

http://www.canadianstrokestrategy.ca/