The Global Frailty Network’s 2023-2024 Frailty Seminar Series has launched! Watch Dr. Jeremy Walston’s 9/13/2023 presentation on frailty and resiliency & sign up for the next seminar on 10/13/2023.

Watch the recording of Dr. Jeremy Walston’s lecture on “The Relationship between Physical Frailty and Resiliency.”  This presentation was recorded on Sept. 13, 2023, and it was the first session of the 2023-2024 Frailty Seminar Series led by the Global Frailty Network.  View the recording here.

 

Also, you may sign up for the next Global Frailty Network seminar on Oct. 11, 2023, with Dr. Anne Hendry about “Integrated Care for Frailty” here.

Oct 11 2023 GFN Seminar

New publication: A Study of Physical Resilience and Aging

A new article, “A Study of Physical Resilience and Aging (SPRING): Conceptual framework, rationale, and study design”, led by Dr. Jeremy Walston and colleagues was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, on June 30, 2023.

Link: JAGS – SPRING Publication

2022-2023 Frailty Seminar Series: A Free Offering from the Global Frailty Network

These ongoing monthly seminars share frailty-related evidence-based practices and research and encourage exchange among health care professionals, researchers, policy experts, and trainees within and outside geriatric medicine. Registration is free and easy, and you may register for any or all of the upcoming online seminars.

Global Frailty Network Logo Please join our friends at the Global Frailty Network for their 2022-2023 Frailty Seminar Series.

 

Many thanks to the Frailty Seminar Series’ Organizing Committee for creating this outstanding speaker series of experts on frailty science: Carmen Castillo-Gallego, MD, PhD (Hospital Virgen del Valle, Toledo, Spain); Gustavo Duque, MD, PhD (McGill University, Montreal, Canada); Sara Espinoza, MD, MSc (San Antonio GRECC & University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA); Jorge G. Ruiz, MD (Miami VAHS GRECC & University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA); Tania Tello, MD, MSc (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru); and Olga Theou, PhD (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada).

 

Seminars occur on the second Wednesday of the month at noon ET (or 5 PM ET where noted on the schedule below).  These ongoing monthly seminars share frailty-related evidence-based practices and research and encourage exchange among health care professionals, researchers, policy experts, and trainees within and outside geriatric medicine. Registration is free and easy, and you may register for any or all of the upcoming online seminars here.  

 

2022 Seminars

  • September 14: “Preventing Frailty in Primary Care Using the ICOPE Monitor Digital;” Bruno Vellas, MD (Gérontopôle, Toulouse University, France)
  • October 12: “COVID 19 and Frailty;” PANEL with Simon Conroy, MB ChB, PhD (University Hospitals of Leicester, UK), George Kuchel, MD, CM, FRCP, AGSF (University of Connecticut, USA), and Sean X. Leng, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
  • November 9: “Sarcopenia, Frailty and Geroscience;” Roger Fielding, PhD (Tufts University, Boston, USA)
  • December 14: (Topic TBA); Linda Fried, MD (Columbia University, New York, USA)

2023 Seminars

  • January 11: “Mechanisms of Frailty;” PANEL with Susan Howlett, PhD (Dalhousie University, Canada), Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD (National Institute of Aging, USA), and Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, PhD (University of Florida, USA)
  • February 8: “Frailty in the Hospital and after Discharge: Approach and Management;”Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas, MD, PhD (University Hospital of Getafe, Spain)
  • March 8: “New Developments in Frailty Index Assessments;” Olga Theou, PhD (Dalhousie University, Canada)
  • April 12: “Frailty and Cognitive Impairment;” PANEL with Kenneth Rockwood, MD, MPA (Dalhousie University, Canada), Olivier Beauchet, MD, PhD (McGill University, Canada), and Carlos Cano-Gutierrez, MD (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
  • May 10: “Frailty – the Research Clinical Practice Gap;” Jean Woo, MD, FRCP, FRACP (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 
    • N.B., 5:00 PM ET instead of 12:00 PM ET
  • June 14: “Sex Differences on Frailty;” Ruth Hubbard, BSc, MBBS, MRCP, MSc (The University of Queensland, Australia)
    • N.B., 5:00 PM ET instead of 12:00 PM ET
  • July 12: “Community Approach for Frailty Prevention;” Hidenori Arai, MD, PhD (National Center for Geriatrics & Gerontology, Japan)
    • N.B., 5:00 PM ET instead of 12:00 PM ET

In the event that your schedule does not permit you to attend a seminar, please know that they are recorded and placed online here.  However, If you do attend, you may request a certificate of attendance for your portfolio.

 

Finally, please consider becoming a member of the Global Frailty Network (free registration here).

 

Save the date! Clin-STAR Coordinating Center Database Webinar on 9/28 at Noon PT/3pm ET

An introductory webinar about the Clin-STAR Database will be held September 28 at 3pm ET/Noon PT. More information and registration will be available soon.

Meanwhile, learn more about the database: https://clin-star.org/database. The Clin-STAR Database features unique functions to search and visualize how the broad aging research community is connected with clinician-investigators from any discipline or level of seniority, starting as early as medical students. The database allows users to easily identify and contact investigators for transdisciplinary research collaborations and mentoring opportunities.

As you may know, Clin-Star is a national platform providing resources for clinician-investigators across specialties and disciplines to improve care of older adults. Clin-STAR’s academic Resource Centers include: AFAR; Johns Hopkins; UCSF; and Yale.  Joining the Clin-STAR network is free, without any commitments. To learn more, visit clin-STAR.org

For Clin-STAR updates, subscribe to their newsletter here: https://clin-star.org/newsletter-sign-up.

 

Frailty Seminar Series

The Frailty Seminar Series is sponsored by the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) VA Program, and the lead organizer is Dr. Jorge Ruiz from the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine.

The Frailty Seminar Series is sponsored by the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) VA Program, and the lead organizer is Dr. Jorge Ruiz from the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. 

 

Here are the remaining seminars to be presented:

 

  • May 11: New Insights on Frailty, Roman Romero-Ortuño, MD, PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
  • June 8: Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease and Frailty, Cristina Alonso-Bouzón, MD, PhD, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Spain
  • July 13: Osteosarcopenia and Frailty, Gustavo Duque, MD, PhD, Melbourne Medical School, Australia

 

Register for one session or all of the remaining Frailty Seminar Series meetings here!

 

To see videos of prior meetings, look under our Professional Resources!