The US Deprescribing Research Network is pleased to announce a new Request for Application for Pilot Awards. The maximum budget per award is $30,000 in direct costs (and no more than $50,000 in combined direct and indirect cost). Letter of Intent (Required): Due November 12, 2024 Full application: Due January 31, 2025 Read more about […]
Join the USDeN October 1, 2024 at 2:00 pm ET (11:00 am PT) for a special webinar: N-of-1 Trials to Promote Deprescribing. The featured presenter will be Dr. Parag Goyal of Weill Cornell Medicine. This webinar will outline the potential value of N-of-1 trials as an innovative strategy to promote deprescribing. More broadly, it will […]
Each month, we highlight news stories and articles featuring NIDUS Boot Camp alumni. If you are a Boot Camp alum and have an accomplishment that you’d like featured here, let us know. Sevdenur Cizginer, MD Medscape: Healing Beyond the Hospital: Improving Post-Op Care for Older Adults Dae Kim, MD, MPH The New England Journal of Medicine: […]
Professor Robert Sanders, BSc, MBBS, PhD, DABA, FRCA, undertook a BSc in Neuroscience and MBBS (medicine) followed by specialist training in Anaesthetics. During that time, he continued to perform basic neuroscience research in the laboratory of Professor Mervyn Maze. Spurred by those discoveries, he was awarded a Medical Research Council (UK) Clinical Training Fellowship funding […]
On Monday, October 7, 2024, the AGS CoCare®: HELP GSA Special Interest Group will a special session on the Hospital Elder Life Program. Attendees will hear how one AGS CoCare®: HELP site got started and how they overcame barriers. In addition, the session will also discuss generial guidelines for starting an AGS CoCare®: HELP Program. […]
Are you a delirium researcher? Each year, NIDUS awards pilot grants to advance innovation in delirium research and support researchers like you! The next Pilot Award cycle will soon be underway. Learn more about NIDUS Pilot Awards.
Dr. Sikandar Khan, DO, MS, is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, and Scientist at the Indiana University Center for Aging Research. His research is focused on the nexus of acute respiratory failure, delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU), and cognitive and physical function outcomes in […]
The Division of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging will host a hybrid workshop entitled “Current Progress and New Directions in Delirium Research ” on August 5 – 6, 2024. The workshop will be held at the NIA’s Neuroscience Center in Rockville, MD with a virtual option on Zoom. Register here. The workshop will […]
Dr. Sara C. LaHue is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at UCSF, where she also earned her medical degree and completed both her neurology residency and neurohospitalist fellowship. As a Buck Institute for Research on Aging Visiting Scientist and NIA Butler-Williams Scholar, Dr. LaHue is dedicated to advancing the care of older hospitalized adults. Her […]
Join the National Academies on July 10th, 2024 from 12-3:30 pm ET for a public workshop that will explore the current landscape, impacts on perception of women in STEMM, ways to address stereotypes and disparity, best practices, and the role of media partnerships. The hybrid workshop will be held at the National Academy of Sciences […]