The UC San Diego Geriatrics Division and Fellowship Program are proud to host their first inaugural Clinical Geriatrics Interprofessional Symposium. This symposium will focus on core issues often pertinent in providing quality, patient-centered clinical care for the elderly. This two-day course will provide participants with the latest strategies for addressing topics, such as delirium prevention, wound care, geriatric pharmacology concerns, end-of-life decisions and palliative care, along with ensuring good transitions of care. Building on the often interdisciplinary nature of geriatrics care, lectures will include panel presentations by multiple levels of care providers with ample opportunity for participant engagement and discussion. Speakers and facilitators will largely include faculty and staff from UC San Diego’s nationally recognized geriatrics program and the VA San Diego Healthcare System.
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1. UC San Diego Clinical Geriatrics
Interprofessional Symposium
October 4 - 5, 2014
UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and
Pharmaceutical Sciences
ReinvenƟng how we care for older adults and training health professionals today to help shape tomorrow….
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The UC San Diego Geriatrics Division and Fellowship Program are proud to host their first inaugural Clinical Geriatrics Interprofessional
Symposium. This symposium will focus on core issues oŌen perƟnent in providing quality, paƟent‐centered clinical care for the elderly.
This two‐day course will provide parƟcipants with the latest strategies for addressing topics, such as delirium prevenƟon, wound care,
geriatric pharmacology concerns, end‐of‐life decisions and palliaƟve care, along with ensuring good transiƟons of care. Building on the
oŌen interdisciplinary nature of geriatrics care, lectures will include panel presentaƟons by mulƟple levels of care providers with ample
opportunity for parƟcipant engagement and discussion. Speakers and facilitators will largely include faculty and staff from UC San Diego’s
naƟonally recognized geriatrics program and the VA San Diego Healthcare System.
TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience for this acƟvity includes health care professionals who care for older adults, including physicians, registered nurses,
nurse pracƟƟoners, pharmacists, physical and occupaƟonal therapists, and social workers. The content covered during this symposium
will be applicable within mulƟple seƫngs, parƟcularly within acute, post‐acute, long‐term care, palliaƟve and home care environments.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this conference, parƟcipants should be able to:
Employ the principles of geriatric medicine;
Discuss current management techniques and treatments available for different geriatric condiƟons;
IdenƟfy paƟent‐centered and system‐wide strategies designed to reduce iatrogenic events;
Describe the various levels of care and when a transiƟon is most appropriate; and
Recognize psychosocial issues that can impact care and decision‐making.
ACCREDITATION
The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the AccreditaƟon Council for ConƟnuing Medical EducaƟon to
provide conƟnuing medical educaƟon for physicians. The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this live
acƟvity for a maximum of 11.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent
of their parƟcipaƟon in the acƟvity. BBS: Course meets the qualificaƟons for 11.25 hours of conƟnuing educaƟon credit for MFTs and/or
LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. (UC San Diego Provider Number PCE 683). Nurses: For the purposes of
recerƟficaƟon, the American Nurses CredenƟaling Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizaƟons accredited by the
ACCME. For the purpose of relicensure, the California Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ (report up to
11.25 hours of credit and list "CME Category 1" as the provider number).
Click here to register online:
Paying by Check?
Please make payable to UC REGENTS and mail to:
UC San Diego School of Medicine
ConƟnuing Medical EducaƟon
2251 San Diego Ave. A‐160
San Diego, CA 92110‐2981
CancellaƟon Policy: The full course payment is refundable, less $35 if your cancellaƟon is received in wriƟng on or before
September 22, 2014.
For further informaƟon, please contact us at 619‐543‐7602 or ocme@ucsd.edu
On or Before Sept. 8 On or AŌer Sept. 9
Physicians $195 $250
Nurses & Other Allied
$125 $175
Health Professionals
Students, Residents, Fellows $75 $100
REGISTRATION
2. COURSE DIRECTOR
Diane Chau, MD, FACP
UC San Diego Geriatrics Fellowship Program Director
Associate Clinical Professor
UC San Diego Division of Geriatrics / VA San Diego Healthcare System
LOCATION
This event is to be held on the UCSD La Jolla campus at the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and PharmaceuƟcal Sciences in the EducaƟon
Center on the basement level. This building is located on Osler Lane off of Gilman Drive. See hƩp://maps.ucsd.edu. Parking is available in the
adjacent lots. Please note the event is not sponsored by the Health Sciences EducaƟon Center. For quesƟons about this event and the
locaƟon, please contact Jennifer Reichstadt, MSG at 619‐543‐7832 or jreichst@ucsd.edu
AGENDA (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
DAY 1 (OCTOBER 4)
7:30am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
8:00am WELCOME AND OVERVIEW (DIANE CHAU, MD, FACP AND COLIN THOMAS, MD, MPH))
8:30am SESSION I: TRANSITIONS OF CARE
9:45am BREAK
10:00am SESSION II: DELIRIUM PREVENTION STRATEGIES
12:00pm LUNCH
1:15pm SESSION III: MENTAL HEALTH
3:00pm BREAK
3:15pm SESSION IV: FRAILTY AND FAILURE TO THRIVE
4:45pm DAY 1 CLOSING REMARKS
DAY 2 (OCTOBER 5)
8:00am SESSION V: WOUND CARE
9:15am SESSION VI: GERIATRIC REHABILITATION AND FALLS
10:30am BREAK
10:45am SESSION VII: GERIATRIC PHARMACOLOGY
12:15pm LUNCH
1:15pm SESSION VIII: END‐OF‐LIFE AND PALLIATIVE CARE AND MEDICAL ETHICS
2:45pm PROGRAM CONCLUSION AND CLOSING REMARKS
SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITOR OPPORTUNITIES
We welcome the support of this acƟvity in the form of educaƟonal grants. In addiƟon, exhibitor opportuniƟes are available. For informaƟon,
please contact Jennifer Reichstadt, MSG, at 619‐543‐7832 or jreichst@ucsd.edu.
CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCY
This acƟvity is in compliance with California Assembly Bill 1195 which requires conƟnuing medical educaƟon acƟviƟes with paƟent care
components to include curriculum in the subjects of cultural and linguisƟc competency. Cultural competency is defined as a set of
integrated aƫtudes, knowledge, and skills that enables health care professionals or organizaƟons to care effecƟvely for paƟents from
diverse cultures, groups, and communiƟes. LinguisƟc competency is defined as the ability of a physician or surgeon to provide paƟents who
do not speak English or who have limited ability to speak English, direct communicaƟon in the paƟent’s primary language. Cultural and
linguisƟc competency was incorporated into the planning of this acƟvity. AddiƟonal resources on cultural and linguisƟc competency and
informaƟon about AB1195 can be found on the UCSD CME website at hƩp://cme.ucsd.edu.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
It is the policy of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine to ensure balance, independence, objecƟvity and scienƟfic rigor.
All persons involved in the selecƟon, development and presentaƟon of content are required to disclose any real or apparent conflicts of
interest. All conflicts of interest will be resolved prior to an educaƟonal acƟvity being delivered to learners through one of the following
mechanisms 1) altering the financial relaƟonship with the commercial interest, 2) altering the individual’s control over CME content about
the products or services of the commercial interest, and/or 3) validaƟng the acƟvity content through independent peer review. All persons
are also required to disclose any discussions of off label/unapproved uses of drugs or devices. Persons who refuse or fail to disclose will be
disqualified from parƟcipaƟng in the CME acƟvity.