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Webinar – Delirium: Shining a Light on Drugs and Delirium (GeriMedRisk)
March 1, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Description
Description: Target Audience: specialist physicians, family physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, residents & medical students, nurses, and other health care professionals providing care to older adults.
Objectives:
- Review the significance of delirium
- Review approaches to identify which drugs are most likely to cause delirium (geriatric clinical pharmacology)
- Review considerations in patients with mental illness
- Highlight provincial delirium initiatives
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9R8e6XU7RoWlTzcBjHm8Xw
Presenters
Dr. Joanne Ho MD, FRCPC, MSc
Dr. Joanne Ho is a geriatrician, clinical pharmacologist and internist from the Kitchener Waterloo area and Associate Professor with the Department of Medicine, Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, McMaster University. She is the co-founder of GeriMedRisk, and also serves as Co-Executive Director and consultant geriatrician and clinical pharmacologist.