Research
GEDC is dedicated to the ongoing evaluation of best practices in geriatric care
The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network
GEAR
Funded in 2018 by the National Institute on Aging to build a sustainable infrastructure and community of researchers to continue exploring older adult emergency care.
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Funded by the National Institutes of Health
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GEAR Consensus Conference
The Geriatric Emergency Applied Research (GEAR) Network consensus conference brought together a diverse group of stakeholders on October 25, 2019. The GEAR consensus conference was comprised five mini-conferences focused on the domains of cognitive impairment, medication safety, elder abuse, falls, and care transitions.
Conference summaryMeet GEDC's Research Team
Dr. Chris Carpenter is dual-board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine and is Professor in Emergency Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. His funded research interests include diagnostics, dementia, falls prevention, and implementation science. He is on the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Board of Directors as well as the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policy Committee. He is also Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Academic Emergency Medicine, Associate Editor of both Annals of Internal Medicine’s ACP Journal Club and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He co-led the collaboration to develop the American College of Emergency Physician/American Geriatrics Society Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines As well as the International Standards for Reporting of Implementation Research (StaRI) reporting guidelines. He is also faculty for Emergency Medical Abstracts and Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine courses, as well as a contributor to Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine and Sketchy EBM.
Dr. Ula Hwang is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and a core investigator at the GRECC (Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center) at the James J. Peters Bronx VAMC. Her research focuses on improving the quality of care older adults receive in the ED setting that ranges from observational studies of analgesic safety and effectiveness in older patients to multi-centre implementation science studies of geriatric emergency care interventions.
Ula currently co-PIs the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative and is the PI on the Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) network.
GEDC is generously supported by the John A.Hartford Foundation.
Conducted with assistance and support from the Gary and Mary West Health Institute.