$2 Million Grant To Train Doctors to Care for Elderly

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Source: Montefiore Medical Center

Released: Mon 10-Jul-2006, 08:00 ET

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/521802/?sc=dwhp

$2 Million Grant To Train Doctors to Care for Elderly

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A $2-million dollar grant has been awarded to Albert Einstein College of

Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center to develop

a program to train doctors in caring for the elderly. The initiative,

known as the GeriEd Program, will contain both educational and clinical

components. The project is funded by the W. Reynolds Foundation

of Las Vegas.

Newswise — A $2-million dollar grant has been awarded to Albert Einstein

College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center

to develop a program to train doctors in caring for the elderly. The

initiative, known as the GeriEd Program, will contain both educational

and clinical components. The project is funded by the W. Reynolds

Foundation of Las Vegas.“Almost all physicians will be caring for older

adults in the years to come,” said program co-leader, Laurie s,

M.D., division chief of Geriatrics at Montefiore and director of the

Resnick Gerontology Center at Einstein, while noting that there are

currently only about 6,000 geriatricians – physicians who specialize in

the care of the elderly – in the nation. “Our goal,” she said, “is to

improve physicians’ skills in medicine as well as in navigating the

healthcare system so they can expertly and appropriately access

available services and programs for their elderly patients.”

The GeriEd Program is highly innovative. It addresses fragmentation in

geriatric care by targeting physicians who provide acute or chronic

primary care for the elderly – including doctors who care for

hospitalized patients, emergency room physicians, internists and family

practitioners. They, in turn, will influence and improve geriatric care

provided by Montefiore now and in the future.

“The program allows us to bridge the academic and research environment

at Einstein with the clinical and patient care settings throughout

Montefiore, offering innovative mentoring and research opportunities

that hopefully will lead some to consider geriatrics as a focus for

their careers at a time when we find ourselves treating more and more

patients who are elderly,” said Joe Verghese, M.D., the grant co-leader

and associate professor of Neurology at Einstein, who is active in

research regarding aging, falls, and dementia, as well as in clinical

care and training. “Also, by teaming Neurology with Geriatrics, we will

work toward increasing awareness and recognition by medical students,

residents, and physicians of such common neurogeriatric syndromes as

dementia. At the same time, they will witness, firsthand, how such

collaborations benefit the needs of older patients.”

“Because Montefiore is an integrated healthcare delivery system that

treats patients throughout their lives, Montefiore is an ideal place for

this kind of program,” Dr. s said. “We see an enormous number of

elderly patients who need to be linked to a system of care so that they

are provided with appropriate treatments overall, and their conditions

tracked over time.”

Montefiore Medical Center, which is the main teaching hospital for

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, houses one of the largest residency

programs in the United States and will develop the GeriEd Program. The

program will target 157 practicing physicians and residents and 750

medical students annually.

The W. Reynolds Foundation is a national philanthropic

organization founded in 1954 by the late media entrepreneur for whom it

is named. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, it is one of the largest

private foundations in the United States.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, established

in 1955, is one of the nation’s leading centers for medical research and

education. It is consistently among the national leaders in terms of

peer-reviewed research support. Particular areas of research strength

for which Einstein is widely renowned include Alzheimer’s disease,

neuroscience, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, liver diseases,

immunology, and molecular genetics. Einstein is also among the most

selective medical schools in the country. In recent years it has

received approximately 6,000 applications for the 180 places in its

first-year class.

Montefiore Medical Center, The University Hospital and Academic Medical

Center for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, ranks among the top

one percent of all US hospitals based on its investments in medical

innovation and cutting-edge technology.

Montefiore’s unique combination of ‘state-of-the-art’ technology with

‘state-of-the-heart’ medical and nursing care in a teaching and research

environment offer patients access to world-class medical experts, the

newest and most innovative treatments and the best medical center

experience anywhere.

This 1,062 bed medical center includes the Henry and Lucy Moses

Division, the Jack D. Weiler Hospital and The Children’s Hospital at

Montefiore, a large home healthcare agency and a 21-site medical group

practice located throughout the Bronx and nearby Westchester.

Montefiore treats all major illnesses and has distinguished centers of

excellence in cardiology and cardiac surgery, cancer care, tissue and

organ transplantation, children's health, women's health, surgery and

the surgical subspecialties.

Montefiore Medical Center focuses on providing family-centered

healthcare in a nurturing environment that extends well beyond its

hospital and ambulatory settings. Please visit www.montefiore.org for

more information.

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