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Previous Events, Lectures, Roundtables Sponsored by the UNC-CH Chapter of the
American Geriatrics Society

Prescribing Medications for Older Adults
December 4, 2007 - 12 noon - 1 PM
Anthony Caprio, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, UNC-CH

Why Geriatrics?
October 10, 2007 - 12 noon - 1 PM
Holly Jean Coward, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Geriatric Evaluation Clinic, UNC-CH

Primary Care and Its Role in the Interdisciplinary Team: A Holistic Approach to Your Geriatric Patient
April 17, 2007 - 12 noon - 1 PM
Debra Bynum, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Acute Care of the Elderly In-patient Unit (ACE) at UNC Hospitals and John Gotelli, GNP, Instructor and Nurse Practitioner, ACE, at UNC Hospitals

Valentines Delivery with Helping Hands
February 3rd, 2007 11am - 1pm
Picked up valentine cards from Helping Hands and delivered them to Shepherd's House

Personal Recollections of Near Death Experiences and Recovery
January 24, 2007
Held jointly with the Family Medicine Interest Group
Guests Heidi Gessner of the UNC Hospitals Pastoral Care office and Tiffany Christiansen gave personal recollections of near death experiences and recovery.
The Family Medicine Interest Group's website is http://www.med.unc.edu/fmig /

Polypharmacy in the Growing Elderly Population

Wednesday, November 8, 2006. Dr. Tony Caprio, geriatrician at UNC-CH, spoke on medication interactions and medication contraindications in elderly patients. At this session we provided lunch for students and allowed them to have an interactive educational experience with the clinician on the necessary and different approaches to pharmaceutical care of the typical elderly patient.

Why Geriatrics?

Wednesday, September 20, 2006. Dr. Gary Winzelburg, also a well known physician in our Geriatrics program at UNC, spoke to a group of students at a lunchtime discussion on why they should consider the field of Geriatrics. He spent time explaining the reality of medicine in the years to come, his passion for geriatrics and health policy and the need of all clinicians to have a comprehensive understanding of the geriatric approach to medicine. Again, food was provided to encourage student involvement.

Introduction to Clinical Medicine 2 Special Course and Mobile SHAC

Friday, August 24, 2006. Mobile SHAC is an outreach and multidisciplinary organization involving medical, dental, social work, pharmacy, and physical therapy students. Its goal is to provide team based care via home visits to patients with chronic illnesses who may be unable to access appropriate care otherwise. We were able to cosponsor an event in attempts to better inform the medical student body about their potential role in this valuable community service and educate ourselves on how we can better become involved. In addition, we promoted a new course beginning this year as a special junction to Mobile SHAC that correlated to the second year curriculum of Introduction to Clinical Medicine. In this course, the students were allowed to use their interactions with patients at Mobile SHAC as a springboard for their clinical education and the course’s objectives and experiences focus around those experiences through discussion and learning activities.

Club Day

Thursday, August 10, 2006. Our table was set up on the main floor of the MBRB and consisted of posters showing students and elderly patients and physicians at work – also flyers giving information on geriatric medicine and the AGS chapter.

Why Geriatrics?

Friday, April 7, 2006. Dr. Gary Winzelberg, Assistant Professor of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UNC-CH School of Medicine discussed his reasons for going into the field of geriatrics and why he thinks medical students should consider this field.

Demystifying Medicare: What is it and How Does it Work?

Monday, April 24, 2006. Holly Biola, MD, MPH, NRSA Primary Care Research Fellow, UNC Department of Family Medicine and Department of Preventive Medicine spoke to about 30 students about Medicare, the new programs in place within Medicare, and how Medicare works and/or doesn’t work to help elders with their medical bills.

International Medicine Dinner

Tuesday, April 25, 2006. Forty-four students attended the International Medicine Dinner at the Carolina Brewery. The purpose was to show students opportunities in international medicine in geriatrics.

Tough Talk about Tackling Today’s Issues for the Elderly

Thursday, March 30, 2006. Dr. Carmel Bitondo Dyer, Director of the geriatric program at Baylor University’s School of Medicine, conducted a roundtable discussion with students about contemporary issues in treating elderly patients.