Clin-STAR Webinar
Applying Frailty Research to the Clinical World: Four Case Studies
Tuesday, April 19, 1-2pm ET
Organized by the Clin-STAR Coordinating Center in partnership with the Clin-STAR Academic Resource Center at Johns Hopkins. This webinar series is co-sponsored by the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC) National Coordinating Center.
The goals of this webinar were for our audience to:
- Learn about frailty, its importance in clinical practice, and how research in this field has evolved over the past decades
- Appreciate the importance for patient care that frailty be better integrated into treatment and care plans of older adults.
- Learn from four clinician-investigators how they’ve applied frailty principles in their transdisciplinary work.
- Specialties represented included geriatric medicine, palliative care, cardiology, gastroenterology, and nephrology.
Discussion included development of a Clin-STAR-sponsored frailty research interest group.
Watch the webinar here. View the introduction and resources slides here.
Moderators:
Jeremy D. Walston, MD
Raymond and Ana Lublin Professor of Geriatric Medicine
PI of the Pepper Center
Co-Director of the Biology of Healthy Aging Program
Deputy Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Johns Hopkins University
Sara E. Espinoza, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Medicine
Co-Director, San Antonio Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
UT Health San Antonio
Director, San Antonio GRECC
Panel Speakers:
Abdulla A. Damluji, MD, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Director, Inova Center of Outcomes Research
Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Associate Director, Aging Research Program
Co-Director, Successful Aging and Frailty Evaluation (SAFE) Clinic
Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
The University of Chicago
Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA
Transplant Hepatologist
Associate Professor In Residence
Endowed Professor of Liver Health and Transplantation
University of California, San Francisco
Mara McAdams DeMarco, PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair for Research
Department of Surgery
New York University