EuGMS SIG on Education and Training

The EuGMS SIG Education and Training

Dear Colleagues,

The agenda of the upcoming meeting is as follows:

SPEAKER 1: Dr Mriganka Singh
TITLE 1: IMPACT-GPM: Integrating Mentored Health Services Research Training within Clinical
Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Fellowship.

IMPACT-GPM is a pioneering introductory Health Services Research (HSR) pathway embedded within a Clinical Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. It aims to stimulate clinical trainees to explore their potential as HSR researchers. It integrates mentored HSR with
real-world clinical experience and hopes to shape the next generation of clinician-investigators and system-level leaders in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. The hands-on, mentored and structured HSR research program also provides fellows analytic support, as they formulate their research questions through the use of a curated national level dataset. IMPACT-GPM embeds fellows in an interdisciplinary team, connects them with institutional and national collaborators, and equips them with the skills to design and generate evidence. Graduates of the program will
thus be better equipped to understand HSR, evaluate published HSR, apply HSR findings to clinical practice and decide whether or not to pursue a career in HSR. This training also positions them for more effective partnerships in projects related to health system transformation by connecting real-world data enquiry with provision of value-based, patient-centered geriatrics and palliative medicine care.

BIO 1: Dr. Mriganka Singh, MD, MPH, AGSF is an Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University.
She completed her Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Master’s in Public Health (Health Services concentration) at Brown University. Her clinical focus is on improving care for the older adults in hospitals and nursing home settings. This has led her to launch and expand hospital based Geriatric Co-management care models at Brown University Health (Geriatric Trauma and Geriatric Elective Joints & Spine) and at University Hospitals, Case Western University (UH- Geriatric Heart Failure, UH-Geriatric Trauma, UH Geriatric Renal Transplant). As part of improving care for older adults at a systems level, she has worked on improvement projects such as Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) reduction, Fall reduction, Delirium prevention and Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Diagnostic stewardship initiatives. Through her current roles as Chair of Brown University Health Age-Friendly system wide Clinical Decision Support Committee whose goal is to optimize potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in hospitalized older adults, Co-chair of The Miriam Hospital’s (TMH) Patient Safety and Zero Harm Committee and member of TMH Quality Improvement steering committee, she continues with efforts to improve the quality of care delivery within the Brown University Health System. These interests translate into educational and research areas as well at local, national and international levels. Through her engagement with the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), she has contributed to the development and dissemination of AGS CoCare: Ortho curriculum. She has served as the course director for “Measuring and Improving the Quality of Health Care” at Brown University’s School of Public Health and currently Co-Directs Brown University Health's Geriatric & Palliative Medicine Fellows year long Health Services research program. She also currently leads NIH funded feasibility projects assessing engagement strategies delivered through robots and smart digital devices to subjects with ADRD and those at risk of delirium within the Brown University Health System. She continues to teach and mentor medical residents, fellows and faculty from geriatrics, surgical specialties as well as other allied health disciplines such as nursing and pharmacy. 

SPEAKER 2:  Professor Roman Romero Ortuno
TITLE 2: Reflections on the European Training Requirements in Geriatric Medicine

BIO 2: Roman Romero-Ortuno is Professor of Ageing Medicine & Frailty at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Physician at St James's Hospital, Dublin. He studied Medicine at the University of Barcelona, completed an MSc in European Social Policy at the LSE, and undertook medical training in the UK and Ireland. He was previously a Consultant Geriatrician at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a Faculty member of the Global Brain Health Institute, co-chairs the Irish Frailty Network, and serves on the UEMS Geriatric Medicine Board. His award-winning research in frailty includes the President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award. He leads Trinity's online frailty education programmes and has held various leadership roles in medical education in 2024, including on the EuGMS Executive Board as Director of Education and Training.

SPEAKER 3: Prof Jūratė Macijauskienė
TITLE 3: Update on the EGeMSE

BIO 3: Prof Jūratė Macijauskienė is head of the dept of Geriatrics, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and Chairperson of the Senate of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU). Currently she is president of the European Union of Medical Societies Geriatric Section (UEMS - GS), Member of European Academy of Medicine of Ageing (EAMA), participates in the network InteRAI; since 2016, Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) for Nursing education and practice at the LSMU. She participates in several research projects (currently involved in "JADE Health" (Joint Action on DEmentia and Health by European Commission), serves as an expert evaluating research proposals and articles, including those related to dementia field. She served as a member of the management group of the research program "Healthy Aging" at the Lithuanian Research Council. Her research interests cover elderly care, geriatric syndromes, including dementia syndrome, long term care, and interprofessional education. She teaches undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students, with special focus on psychogeriatrics, is an author or co-author of several textbooks and more than 300 scientific publications. As a geriatrician, she has experience of more than 30 years consulting persons with cognitive impairment and dementia.

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Please note that the meeting will be recorded and that the audio and video recordings might be used by the EuGMS for dissemination on the EuGMS website and social media.

Kind regards,
Co-chairs: Prof. M. Cristina Polidori, Prof Michael Vassallo, Prof Roman Romero-Ortuno

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