Mark Oldham, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). He completed fellowship training in consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. After that, he served as medical director of the Behavioral Intervention Team at Yale-New Haven Hospital. In 2017, he transferred to URMC where he launched […]
Author Archive: nidus_delirium
Apply for the AGING Initiative MCCs Scholars Program
The AGING Initiative is pleased to announce the sixth cycle of the AGING Initiative MCCs Scholars Program. The program will create a cohort of emerging leaders who are committed to pursuing training and collaborative opportunities to align their research interests with issues relevant to the health and healthcare of older adults with MCCs. To learn […]
Register for the January 17, 2024 Joint NIDUS/ADS Webinar
In this joint NIDUS and American Delirium Society webinar, Drs. Emily Carter, Christine Waszynski, and Esther Oh will focus on strategies to implement and evaluate evidence-based delirium care in era of the Age-Friendly Health System. John Devlin, PharmD will moderate this session. Topic: Bringing Evidence to Practice: Implementing Delirium Care in the Era of the […]
Watch our November 30 webinar featuring Drs. Ben Palanca and Melissa Knauert
In our November 30, 2023 mentoring session, Drs. Ben Palanca and Melissa Knauert discussed discuss the relationship between sleep and delirium. Watch the full session below:
Investigator of the Month (December 2023): Kathryn Agarwal, MD
Dr. Kathryn Agarwal received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Geriatrics at Baylor. The focus of her academic career is the development and implementation of programs to improve the care of hospitalized older adults. From 2012-2016, Dr. Agarwal served as content expert for a […]
Expanding delirium prevention during COVID-19 with the Modified and Expanded Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP-ME)
Contributed by Tamara G. Fong, MD PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA USA; Jason Albaum, Vassar College, USA; and Sharon K. Inouye, MD MPH, Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, […]
Congratulations to our 2023 Research Hub Challenge Winner
Congratulations to Eva Tabarani, winner of the 2023 Research Hub Challenge. The Challenge was open to all delirium investigators who had used the NIDUS Delirium Research Hub to further their delirium research program and/or build their collaborative connections. Entrants were asked to show a creative use of the Hub to solve a problem in delirium research. […]
Watch our October 10, 2023 Webinar Featuring Drs. Eyal Kimchi and Gen Shinozaki
In our October 10, 2023 mentoring session, Drs. Eyal Kimchi and Gen Gen Shinozaki discussed the evolving research and clinical roles of EEG in delirium assessment across different patient settings.
Pilot Awards Info Session – 2023 Edition
In our November 20, 2023 Info Session, Dr. Frederick Sieber discussed the NIDUS II Pilot Grants and the application process. He also answered questions from those who attended the live session. Access the slides from the presentation. Watch the full session below:
Investigator of the Month (November 2023): John Newman, MD, PhD
John Newman, MD, PhD is a geriatrician, translational scientist, and educator at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and in the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Newman’s goal is to use our growing understanding of fundamental mechanisms of aging to better understand the pathophysiology of delirium and ultimately create new […]