Where
John H. Ammon Medical Education Center Auditorium
4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road
Newark, DE 19718
Driving Directions
This Live activity, 29th Annual Geriatric Symposium, with a beginning date of 12/11/2014, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 3.00 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AMA/AAFP Equivalency:
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.
Program Co-Chairs
Seema Datanni, MD
Linsey O'Donnell, DO
Melissa Morgan-Gouveia, MD, guest co-chair
For more information contact:
Ray Saputelli, MBA, CAE, Executive Director
Delaware Academy of Family Physicians
ray@delfamdoc.org
302-733-3356
29th Annual Geriatric Medicine Symposium
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Please join us for the 29th year of our premier symposium updating physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and other health care professionals on current thinking and available information on medical issues affecting the geriatric population. We have an excellent line up of faculty speakers and can't wait to see you there! This year’s conference features:
AGENDA
7:30 am Registration – Visit Exhibits – Continental Breakfast
7:45 am WELCOME/OPENING REMARKS
Seema Dattani, MD and Linsey O’Donnell, DO – Program Chairs
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Christiana Care Health System
Melissa Morgan-Gouveia, MD - Guest Co-Chair
Department of Medicine, Christiana Care Health System
Memorial: Roger Rodrigue, MD
David A. Simpson, MD, FAAFP - Past Program Chair
Medical Director, Swank Memory Center, Department of Family and Community
Medicine, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Jefferson Medical College
8:00 am Managing Medications in Older Adults/Medical Grand Rounds
Colleen Christmas, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Geriatrics and General Internal
Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Residency Director, Johns
Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine
Learning objectives:
1. Identify age related changes that impact medication prescribing in older adults
2. Review prevalence and consequences of polypharmacy
3 . Describe principles for safe medication prescribing in older adults
9:00 am Break – Visit Exhibits
9:30 am Advanced Care Planning
Susan Parks, MD
Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine,
Director of the Eastern PA-DE GEC
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe values-based advance care planning
2. Challenge learners previous conceptions about advance care planning
3. Describe the research around advance care planning
4. Provide practical tips for framing the conversation
10:30 am Break – Visit Exhibits
10:45 am Choosing Wisely with Vulnerable Elders
Tom Finucane, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize that overtreatment is a serious risk in geriatric medicine
2. Describe instance of harm when normal aging is medicalized
3. Identify situation where lifestyle modification and caraegiver support are shown to be
superior to pills
11:45 am Adjournment
