2023
AGS 2023 Geriatric Emergency Department Special Interest Group
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Room TBD
The Geriatric Emergency Department (GED) Special Interest Group brings together all health professionals interested in caring for older adults in Emergency Departments. We review how to create and sustain new models of geriatrics care in a high-volume and fast-paced ED environment. In addition, we discuss the successes and challenges of GED programs and increasing partnerships between AGS and Emergency Medicine forums. Please join us to explore growing opportunities to advance the care of older adults in Emergency Departments.
AGS Event PagePanel Discussion: Prioritizing Care of Older Adults at Time of Emergency Department Overcrowding
Moderated By
Saket A. Saxena, MD, SIG Chair
Co- Director Geriatric ED & GCU
Assistant Professor, CCLCM & CWRU
Center for Geriatric Medicine, Cleveland Clinic
Panel
Esther Oh, MD, PhD
President, American Delirium Society
Sarah Miller Coulson Human Aging Project Scholar
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Neuropathology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mitchel Erickson, DNP, MS, BSN, BSc, ACNP-C
Consultant, Geriatric Age-Friendly ED at UCSF Health
Associate Clinical Professor,
Chair, BRN APRN Advisory Committee
Department of Physiological Nursing
Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco