Dartmouth Events

Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, September 2, 2016 for the presentation titled:

 

“Value Added Geriatrics with Co-management: The Geriatric Fracture Center”

 

Daniel Ari Mendelson, MS, MD, FACP, AGSF, CMD

William and Sheila Konar Family Professor of Geriatrics, Palliative Medicine, and Person-Centered Care

Division of Geriatrics

University of Rochester, School of Medicine & Dentistry

Associate Chief of Medicine

Director, Palliative Care

Co-Director, Geriatric Fracture Center

 Highland Hospital, Rochester, NY

 

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

 

Co-Sponsored by the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and The Department of Medicine

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

 

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

 

1. Describe co-management

2. Differentiate between craft, mass, and lean production models

3. State how geriatrics adds value to other programs.

 

Dr. Mendelson is a geriatrician and researcher internationally known for his innovative work in caring for geriatric fracture patients. He is co-founder and co-director of the Geriatric Fracture Center at Highland Hospital, lectures worldwide about topics related to fragility fractures, and is the author of numerous publications in this area. Dr. Mendelson is co-principal investigator for a pilot grant from the Hartford Foundation to disseminate Highland’s highly successful care model, which integrates geriatrics with orthopaedic surgery. He came to Highland Hospital in 1999 during the second year of his fellowship training to develop the inpatient Acute Geriatrics Service and later established the Palliative Care Consultation Service. Dr. Mendelson has won several teaching awards and has earned international recognition for his work. A member of the New York American College of Physicians Ethics Committee, he also serves on the American Geriatrics Society Quality and Performance Measures Committee. He has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Rochester Institute of Technology, and received his M.S. in biophysics and an M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, where he also completed a residency in primary care internal medicine and fellowship in geriatrics. 

 

Dr. Mendelson reported no conflicts of interest.

 

http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html