Geriatric Interclerkship files: April 2008 

Alice Bonner GNP;  Gerry Gleich MD;  Jen Tjia MD;
Sarah McGee MD; Gerry Gleich MD; David Wilner MD.

Geriatric Interclerkship 2009

Division of Geriatric Medicine

Education

 

 

UMass Geriatric Teaching Day  May 28-29, 2008

Rebecca A. Silliman, MD, PhD was the 2008 UMMS Visiting Professor of Geriatric Medicine.  Dr. Silliman is Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and Chief of the Geriatrics Section at Boston Medical Center.  The central focus of Dr. Silliman's research has been on chronic disease management in old age. Dr. Silliman has studied breast cancer care and its outcomes in older women for over 20 years.

On May 29, 2008 Dr. Silliman presented "When Cancer in Older Adults is Undermanaged: The Breast Cancer Story" at the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds.

Geriatric Teaching Day is jointly sponsored by the Division of Geriatric Medicine, The Department of Medicine, The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, the Rosalie Wolf Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Center, and the Meyers Primary Care Institute.  

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*NEWS FLASH* 

Planning for our clinical fellowship program in geriatric medicine is underway.

We expect to enroll our first Fellows in July of 2009.  For more information, please call Dr. Petra Flock 508-856-3085.

Faculty Development to Advance Geriatric Education

 

   Dr. Petra Flock was selected to participate in the Donald Reynolds Foundation supported mini-fellowship program to advance geriatric education.  Faculty from Duke University made a site visit to Worcester and presented the current best practices on making our clinical/educational interactions more effective.  Pictured at left are: Dr. Jerry Gurwitz, Division Chief; Dr. Sarah McGee, Division Education Director; Sandro Pinheiro, PhD Education Director of the Duke program; Dr. Mitch Heflin, Program Director for the Reynolds Faculty Development to Advance Geriatric Education Program at Duke.  Handouts from the workshop are available by clicking: pdf1, pdf2, and pdf3. 

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Clinical and Population Health Research

Our faculty teach in the Clinical and Population Health Research doctoral program in the graduate school.