NIDUS Blog

Dr Tamara Fong

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, […]

John Newman, MD, PhD

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 […]

Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju, MD

Postoperative Delirium and Long-Term Subjective Cognitive Decline After Cardiac Surgery

Contributed by Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju, MD, Anesthetist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and Henry Isaiah Dorr Associate Professor of Research and Teaching in Anaesthetics and Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School, and Ariel Mueller, MA, Administrative Director for Research in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital on behalf of the Minimizing […]

Alasdair MacLullich, PhD

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, […]

Gen Shinozaki, MD

Can Delirium Assessment with Bispectral EEG (BSEEG) Help Predict Patient Outcome(s)?

Contributed by Gen Shinozaki, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA The Shinozaki Lab at Stanford University, previously at the University of Iowa, has been working to develop a novel portable EEG device to help detect delirium in hopes it will improve patient outcome(s). This bispectral […]

Dr. Gideon Caplan

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 […]

UB-CAM QR code for downloading iPhone app

Update on the Ultra-Brief Confusion Assessment Method (UB-CAM)

Contributed by Edward R. Marcantonio MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and Donna M. Fick, RN, PhD, Director of the Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Penn State In 2020, we wrote a NIDUS blog introducing the Ultra-Brief Confusion Assessment Method (UB-CAM) 1, an ultra-brief, adaptive tool for assessing […]

Dr. Donna Fick

Investigator of the Month (August 2023): Donna Fick, PhD, RN, GCNS-BC, FGSA, FAAN

Dr. Donna Marie Fick is the Elouise Ross Eberly Endowed Professor of the Ross & Carol Nese College of Nursing at The Pennsylvania State University, and Director of the Tressa Nese and Helen Diskevich Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence. Dr. Fick is nationally and internationally recognized as a leading expert in geriatric care and research. She […]

Citing a published NIDUS blog post on your CV

When citing a NIDUS blog post on your CV, list it in a section entitled ‘Other Non-Peer Reviewed Scholarship’. For the actual citation, list your name, blog title, organization (NIDUS), and the link to Blog. At the end, add ‘invited blog’ in brackets. This is the format suggested on the Harvard Med School CV template.

Example:
Sam Jones, My Delirium Blog Post, NIDUS, www.deliriumnetwork/my-delirium-blog-post.org (invited blog)