Dr. James Powers, "Demential and Antipsychotics in the Long Term Care Setting"

SPRING SEMESTER LECTURE SERIES

Interprofessional Approach to Mental Health

“Dementia and Antipsychotics in the Long Term Care Setting”

Thursday/JAN 21, 2016   202 LIGHT HALL   12-1 PM

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

James S. Powers, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. James Powers received his MD from the  University of Rochester and did his residency training in internal medicine at Case Western and the Cleveland Clinic. He developed the Acute Care for Elderly (VU) and the Geriatric Evaluation and Management (VA) Units and has maintained them since 1987. He also developed the geriatrics fellowship program in 1999.

Currently he is the Geriatrics Fellowship Director and Associate Clinical Director of the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center. His research interests include interdisciplinary patient care teams and long term care. He directs a quality improvement project aimed at reducing the use of sedative medications for controlling agitation in nursing home residents in Tennessee. This talk will address the implementation of interprofessional nonpharmacological means to do so.

Hosted by the Vanderbilt Organization for Interprofessional Student Community Engagement.

Lunch provided to those who RSVP: 

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