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:
Author Archive: nidus_delirium
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 […]
Investigator of the Month (October 2023): Alasdair MacLullich, MRCP, PhD
Professor Alasdair MacLullich is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Usher Institute in the University of Edinburgh. He works clinically in acute orthogeriatrics and acute geriatrics, and conducts research in delirium, cognition, and hip fracture. He has made contributions in several areas of delirium research including clinical assessment tools, neuropsychology of delirium, pathophysiology of delirium, […]
Watch our September 26, 2023 Webinar Featuring Dr. Tamara Fong
In last week’s NIDUS mentoring session, Biomarkers at the Interface of Delirium and Dementia, Dr. Tamara Fong explored mechanisms that may be common to both delirium and dementia. She also reviewed shared biomarkers (AD biomarkers, neural injury biomarkers, systemic inflammatory biomarkers, and neuroimaging biomarkers). If you missed this session, you can watch the recording below. […]
Investigator of the Month (September 2023): Gideon Caplan, MD, FRACP
Dr Gideon Caplan is Director of Geriatric Medicine and Post-Acute Care Services at Prince of Wales Hospital, and he is a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. His research interests have focused on health services research as principal investigator on seven investigator-initiated RCTs, and on the pathophysiology of […]