GEDC Webinar: Providing Excellent Geriatric ED Care During COVID - Strategies for Coping

The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC) is holding a webinar on January 24, "Providing Excellent Geri Emergency Department (ED) Care During COVID: Strategies for Coping.”

Dr. Don Melady will moderate a conversation with geriatric emergency leaders to discuss how to cope with the challenges the latest wave of COVID brings to EDs while providing the best possible care for older adults. The webinar will hear from small and large Geri EDs that have succeeded in maintaining Geri-specific programs during COVID, explore strategies sites can use to cope during COVID and highlight excellent geriatric care.

The expert panel includes:

• Don Melady, MD - Emergency Physician - Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, Canada
• Amber Widenski, DO - Emergency Medicine Specialist - Hartford, Wisconsin
• Amber Koplitz, MHA, BSN, RN, NE-BC - Manager of Emergency Services, Aurora Medical Center Washington County
• Pamela Martin, APRN GEM APRN - Geriatric Emergency Medicine - Yale-New Haven Health, Department of Geriatrics
• Nida Degesys, MD - Medical Director - Geriatric Emergency Department, University of California at San Francisco
• Katie Hunold, MD - Director Geriatric ED - Ohio State University
• Lauren Southerland, MD - Director, Geriatric ED, Ohio State University Medical Center
• Ula Hwang, MD, MPH - Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vice Chair for Research, Yale School of Medicine

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