What Matters: Eliciting Patient Healthcare Goals and the CMS Hospital Measure

Dr. Don Melady is an emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada and a founding member of the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative. He is the author of the website www.geri-EM.com – a CME accredited program for geriatric emergency medicine education – and the chair of the Geriatric EM committee of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Danya Khoujah is an emergency physician with a keen interest in geriatric emergencies and medical education. She completed her emergency medicine residency and faculty development fellowship at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where she continues to serve as voluntary faculty. She practices clinically in Tampa, Florida, and is part of the writing group of the Geriatric ED Guidelines, namely the delirium and medication safety sections. She has developed educational content for healthcare practitioners locally, nationally, and internationally, with numerous lectures, podcasts, and manuscripts, mostly focused on emergency neurology and geriatrics.