36th Annual UCLA Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine and Board Review

Format : Videos + PDF
Release Year : 2020
                                    

🎯 Intended Audience

👩‍⚕️ Health professionals who want to enhance their ability to care for older adults.
👨‍⚕️ Physicians preparing for initial certification or re-certification exams in Geriatric Medicine (ABIM & ABFP).

 

📚 TOPICS / SPEAKERS

🧓 General Principles of Aging

🧬 Physiology of Aging – Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH

⏳ Live Long and Prosper! Mechanisms to Delay Aging – Steven Castle, MD

💊 Pharmacokinetic Considerations in the Elderly – Patrick Chan, PharmD, PhD

📖 Geriatrics Literature Update: 2019 – Arun S. Karlamangla, MD, PhD

🏅 David H. Solomon Memorial Lecture: New Models of Geriatrics Care – Albert L. Siu, MD, MSPH

🛡️ Preventive Health Care in the Geriatric Patient – Erin Atkinson Cook, MD

🦠 Infections in Older Persons – Tara Vijayan, MD

🦴 Falls and Musculoskeletal

🤕 Falls: Assessment and Management – David A. Ganz, MD, PhD

🏃 Geriatric Rehabilitation – Dixie Aragaki, MD

💉 Rheumatology Advances: Vasculitis, Gout, Rheumatoid Arthritis – Arash A. Horizon, MD

🥗 Nutrition Through the Ages – Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD

🫁 Aging Organ Systems

🍽️ Common GI Issues in Older Persons – Kevin Ghassemi, MD

🧔 Prostate Disease – Chad Baxter, MD

💧 Urinary Incontinence – Ja-Hong Kim, MD

🌬️ Pulmonary Diseases in Older Persons – Eric Kleerup, MD

🩸 Chronic Kidney Disease – James Wilson, MD, MS, FACP

❤️ Cardiovascular Conditions

🔴 Hypertension in Older Adults – Anjay Rastogi, MD, PhD

💓 Atrial Fibrillation – Karol E. Watson, MD, PhD

💔 Update in the Management of Heart Failure – Freny Vaghaiwalla Mody, MD

🏥 Perioperative Assessment in Older Adults – Sondra Vazirani, MD, MPH

❤️‍🩹 Geriatric Cardiology: Aging & CVD Management – Deena Goldwater, MD, PhD

📉 Quality Improvement: Long-Term Care Controversies – Dan Osterweil, MD, FACP

🩺 Endocrine and Hematologic Disorders

🩸 Hematologic Disease in the Elderly – Gary Schiller, MD, FACP

🦴 Osteoporosis: An Overview – Carolyn J. Crandall, MD, MS

🍬 Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – Pejman Cohan, MD

🧬 Endocrine Disorders in Older Persons – Jane E. Weinreb, MD

👁️ Vision Loss in the Elderly – Mitra Nejad, MD

💊 Pain Management, Palliative Care & Dermatology

💊 Geriatric Pain Management – Irene I. Wu, MD

🌹 Palliative Care in the Older Patient – Rebecca Yamarik, MD

🩹 Pressure Ulcers: Assessment & Management – Barbara M. Bates-Jensen, PhD, RN, FAAN

🌞 Geriatric Dermatology – Jennifer C. Haley, MD

🧠 Sorting Out Impaired Cognition – David B. Reuben, MD

🔬 Topics in Geriatric Endocrinology – Albert Shieh, MD

🧠 Geriatric Neurology / Psychiatry I

🧩 The Spectrum of Cognitive Dysfunction – David B. Reuben, MD

💊 Pharmacological Treatment Across Dementia Syndromes – Sarah Kremen, MD

🧠 Psychiatric & Behavioral Symptoms in Alzheimer’s & Dementias – Aaron H. Kaufman, MD

🌙 Sleep Problems in Older People – Cathy A. Alessi, MD

🏅 Arthur C. Cherkin Memorial Lecture – Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD

🧠 Geriatric Neurology / Psychiatry II

🧑‍🦽 Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease in the Elderly – Yvette M. Bordelon, MD, PhD

😟 Anxiety Disorders in the Elderly – Benjamin M. Shapiro, MD

💭 Late-Life Depression: Advances in Treatment – Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA

🍷 Substance Abuse in the Older Patient – Pauline Wu, DO