Audio Podcasts
Speaker: Michael Grodin, MD
Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights
Boston University School of Public Health
By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to:
List five reasons why there is so much interest and concern about medical ethics in geriatric medicine today.
Define and distinguish normative ethics, descriptive ethics, law, religion, and human rights as [...]
Edward Marcantonio, MD, SM
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Research,
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
June 10, 2011
Objectives: At the conclusion of this podcast, listeners will be able to:
Discuss the latest developments in diagnosis, epidemiology, and pathophysiology of delirium.
Describe interventions for delirium prevention and treatment.
Discuss the [...]
May 20, 2011
Speakers: Sue Berger, PhD, OTR/L, BCG, FAOTA
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy
Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Jennifer Salvo, OD
Low Vision Optometrist
Massachusetts Association for the Blind
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this podcast, listeners will be able to:
1. Identify and refer patients for low vision [...]
Speaker: Jane Driver, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
At the conclusion of the podcast, listeners will be able to:
Understand the epidemiologic associations between cancer and age-related neurodegeneration (Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease).
Review the biological pathways common to these diseases.
Understand the potential epidemiologic and therapeutic [...]
Speaker: Sonia Ananthakrishnan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston University Medical Center
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this podcast, listeners should:
Recognize the importance of identifying male osteoporosis.
Understand controversies in screening men for osteoporosis.
Develop a basic approach to screening and management of men with osteoporosis.
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Speaker: Robert Stern, PhD
Director, Clinical Core, BU Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Associate Professor of Neurology
Boston University Medical Center
Learning Objectives: At the end of the podcast, listeners will:
gain an understanding of the neuropathological findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
improve their understanding of the clinical presentation and course of CTE.
increase [...]
Terri Fried, MD, Faulkner Visiting Professor, speaks to the Geriatics section.
Objectives:
Recognize the limitations of traditional approaches to advance care planning.
Understand advance care planning as a process preparing patients and families to make “in-the-moment” decisions.
Understand how models of health behavior can help to inform new approaches to promoting engagement in advance care [...]
Eugene Kissin, MD presents a talk to the Geriatrics section.
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Dr. Samuel Frank
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