Topic: Update on Peripheral Artery Disease.
Presented by:
William Hiatt, MD
President, Colorado Prevention Center
Professor, Cardiology, SOM
University of Colorado
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss the epidemiology and cardiovascular risk outcomes of peripheral artery disease.
2. Understand the role of risk reduction therapies and in particular aspirin in PAD.
3. Understand the available treatments for symptomatic disease. |
Topic: Renal Disease in the Elderly.
Presented by:
Moshe Levi, MD
Professor, Renal Medicine, SOM
University of Colorado
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify significance of the renal functional impairment in the elderly.
2. Identify the range of renal diseases that are especially prevalent in the elderly.
3. Identify potential interventional treatments for the prevention of renal functional impairment in the elderly. |
Topic: Forensic Neurology
Presented by:
Al Anderson, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand some of the key forensic issues related to aging and cognition
2. Know some of the key components of the evaluation of geriatrics patients in a forensic setting
3. Understand the basic neurobiology of moral decision making |
Topic: Advancing Advance Care Planning
The POLST Paradigm and MOST in Colorado
Presented by:
David Koets, MD
Chief Medical Officer, The Denver Hospice
Chair, Colorado Advance Directives Consortium
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the challenges and barriers in having advance care planning conversations, documenting an individual’s wishes, and communicating the patient’s preferences.
2. Understand the role of Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment document in the advance care planning process and portability across healthcare settings.
3. Utilize the MOST document to facilitate conversations and decision making related to advance directives |
Topic: Driving and Older Adults
Presented by:
Emmy Betz, MD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the physician’s role in older driver assessment, including Colorado regulations.
2. Explain the relative strengths and weakness of available older driver assessment options.
3. Identify resources for patient education and comprehensive driver evaluations. |
Topic: Buying Health - Where Should America Make Its Investment?
Presented by:
Mark Earnest, MD
University of Colorado
School of Medicine
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss ethical understandings of health and its distribution
2. Explore and describe the determinants of health and current trends
3. Examine health spending and its impact on health determinants
4. Discuss possible futures for health care in America in light of current trends |
Topic:Reducing Health Care Costs through Quality Improvement
Presented by:
Mark Levine, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Denver
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Clinical Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Presentation Handout in .pdf format.
Handout Menu of Options in .pdf format.
Handout Resources in .pdf format.
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To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss the ways in which fee-for-service payment for health care services has failed to promote quality and efficiency
2. Discuss the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services three-part aim for American health care.
3. Discuss the challenges and opportunities of new payment models, such as Accountable Care Organizations and bundled payments |
Topic: Glaucoma
Presented by:
Malik Kahook, MD
Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
There is no handout for this presentation. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Those attending will be able to define glaucoma and describe the natural history of the disease
2. Attendees will be able to describe methods for diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma
3. Attendees will be able to identify high-risk populations and methods for disease screening in the non-ophthalmic clinical setting |
Topic: Non-Medical Therapeutic Approaches to Alzheimer’s
Presented by:
Amelia Schafer, MS
Director of Professional Education
Alzheimer's Association, Colorado Chapter
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss various therapeutic approaches to Alzheimer’s disease including art therapy, pet therapy, aromatherapy, therapeutic touch, etc.
2. Understand the research and therapeutic benefits of various therapies.
3. Describe how the Alzheimer’s Association can assist with these therapies as well as family and caregiver support. |
Topic:Lifestyle Interventions to Improve Physical Function in Obese Older Adults
Presented by:
Dennis Villareal, MD
Chief, Geriatrics Section
New Mexico VA Health Care System
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Appreciate the important public health problem of obesity in older adults
2. Understand the controversies in the treatment approach towards obesity in older adults
3. Learn the role of weight loss and exercise therapy in improving physical function in obese older adults |
Topic: Pre-Operative Risk Stratification of the Older Adult
Presented by:
Tom Robinson, MD
Associate Professor, General Surgery
Director, MIS Center
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Presentation Handout in .pdf format.
Presentation References in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. To understand the currently used methods to assess post-operative risk in older adults
2. To recognize strategies to quantify physiologic compromise in the older adult prior to an operation
3. To relate geriatric specific physiologic compromise to post-operative risk |
Topic: New Drug Update.
Presented by:
Sunny Linnebur PharmD
Associate Professor
Joseph Vande Griend, PharmD
Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
University of Colorado
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify new medications approved in the last year that may be useful in the clinical care of older adults
2. Identify characteristics, such as dosing, pharmacokinetics, side effects, and monitoring that may require special attention in older adults
3. Recognize patients who may be candidates for these medications, taking into consideration other patient characteristics |
Topic: Non-Medical Therapeutic Approaches to Alzheimer’s
Presented by:
Amelia Schafer, MS
Director of Professional Education
Alzheimer's Association, Colorado Chapter
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss various therapeutic approaches to Alzheimer’s disease including art therapy, pet therapy, aromatherapy, therapeutic touch, etc.
2. Understand the research and therapeutic benefits of various therapies.
3. Describe how the Alzheimer’s Association can assist with these therapies as well as family and caregiver support. |
Topic:Testosterone Replacement Therapy for Physical Frailty: Does it Work?
Presented by:
Ellen Binder, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Occupational Therapy
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine
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To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the relationship between testosterone deficiency and markers of physical frailty in older adults, particularly older women.
2. Understand recent studies of the effects of androgen replacement in older women on body composition and muscle strength.
3. Understand current studies of testosterone replacement therapy in older women and men with physical frailty. |
Topic: Medication Management in the Senior's Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project
Presented by:
Maria Vejar, GNP
Senior Instructor, Senior's Clinic
Division of Geriatric Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. To understand the role of quality improvement (QI) in the clinical practice setting.
2. To understand the outcomes of this QI project that explored medication management and safety for older adults.
3. To discuss the importance of educating our patients regarding potential concerns with over-the-counter (OTC) medications that we may or may not know they are taking. |
Topic: Accountable Care Organizations
Presented by:
Laura Warner, MD
Geriatric Fellow
Division of Geriatric Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the healthcare models that set the precedent for accountable care organizations, such as health maintenance organizations and patient-centered medical homes.
2. Understand the physician group practice demonstration and the data obtained from that experiment that were used to develop the accountable care organization model.
3. Discuss the basic structure of an accountable care organization as well as some of the strengths and weaknesses of this new payment model. |
Topic: The Geriatric Patient with Heart Failure: Time to Change Our Approach to Care
Special Guest Speaker:
Rebecca Boxer, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
University Hospitals Case Medical Center/CWRU
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe differences in demographics between older and younger adults with heart failure.
2. Describe the relationship between frailty and heart failure.
3. Describe challenges in transitions of care for the geriatric patient with heart failure. |
Topic: Comorbidities and Geriatric Conditions in Diabetes:
The next frontier for diabetes management
Presented by:
Caroline Blaum, MD, MS
University of Michigan
School of Medicine
Presentation Handout in .pdf format.
Selected Refs Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the association of diabetes with clinical conditions that add to clinical complexity
– Multiple comorbidities
– Geriatric conditions and disability.
2. Identify emerging evidence regarding whether current diabetes management prevents or mitigates geriatric conditions and disability.
3. Understand some reasons why current diabetes management may not be appropriate for complex patients
– Efficacy
– Patient burden |
American Geriatrics Society Conference, Seattle, Wa |
Topic: Preparing for Death at Home:
A Quality Improvement Project
Presented by:
Hilary Lum, MD, PhD
Geriatric Fellow
Division of Geriatric Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the potential impact of providers in preparing patients for death at home.
2. Recognize the highly variable nature of the process that occurs after death at home, and how hospice services generally positively impact the process.
3. Describe possible patient education topics or strategies that can be used to prepare patients/caregivers for an expected death at home. |
Topic: The Medical Foster Home – A substitute for nursing home care?
Presented by:
Cari Levy, MD
Health Care Policy & Research
School of Medicine
University of Colorado
Presentation Handout in .pdf format. |
To be Teleconferenced to DVAMC Rm 2-B107
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the benefits and potential risks of substituting nursing home care with care in a medical foster home.
2. Compare and contrast discharge outcomes for those enrolled in a medical foster home program.
3. Understand the cost implications of substituting nursing home care with care in a medical foster home. |
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