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Supported by: the John A. Hartford Foundation under its grant to the American Geriatrics Society in support of the Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative.   


About the Conference

Presented as a joint effort of the Geriatrics-for-Specialties Initiative (GSI) and the American Geriatrics Society’s Research Committee, the overarching objective for the conference was to define Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) and its relevance to clinical geriatrics research.  Conference attendees explored issues in CER pertaining to older persons, determine where, and where not, CER has been successfully applied in clinical geriatrics research, identify knowledge gaps in CER for older people and to recommend specific CER studies for geriatric syndromes (e.g., sarcopenia, anorexia, fatigue, pain, delirium urinary incontinence, etc.), disability, and complications of comorbidity or polypharmacy. (See Conference Agenda). 

The conference objectives were to:  identify knowledge gaps, barriers and next steps/solutions in performing CER in older adults as guidance to investigators, funding agencies and policy makers.

Conference Planning Committee
Jeffrey Silverstein, MD
Mount Sinai Hospital
 Kenneth Schmader, MD
Duke University Medical Center		 Marie Bernard, MD*
National Institute on Aging
Joseph Hanlon, Pharm D
University of Pittsburgh		 Kevin High, MD
WFU Primate Center		 Judith Salerno, MD
Institute of Medicine
Mary Tinetti, MD
Yale University School of Medicine 		    


Conference Report

The Conference Planning Committee is currently preparing a report on the Conference. See here for a preliminary recap.

PowerPoint™ Presentations
Chad Boult, MD Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH (N/A) Peter Peduzzi, MD
Marcel Salive, MD Harold Sox, MD Stephanie Studenski, MD and Mary Tinetti, MD


*denotes NIH Representative