We are excited to announce the next session of the Innovative Design, Testing, and Implementation of Frailty Interventions seminar series!

Date/Time: January 22, 2025, 9-10AM EST

Title: The EngAGE Randomized Controlled Trial: Study design, strategy, estimated cost and preliminary results of a trial exclusively recruiting frail, multimorbid, homebound, African-American older adults and their care partners.

Speaker: Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH, AGSF, FGSA, Associate Professor, Associate Director, Aging Research Program, Co-Director of the Successful Aging and Frailty Evaluation Clinic, Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, University of Chicago

Location: Room 2-701, Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University; with Zoom option (please contact Brian Buta for Zoom information)

This series aims to bring together leading experts from around the globe to share insights and advances in frailty intervention and related research and implementation methodologies within clinical and public health settings.  If you would like to nominate potential future presenters, including yourself, please use this Frailty Interventions Speaker Nomination Form.

The seminar series was developed as part of the Frailty & Multisystem Dysregulation Working Group, and it is being held in conjunction with the working group meetings. It is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center, and co-led by Dr. Qian-Li Xue, Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine, and Dr. Susan Gearhart, Associate Professor of Surgery, at Johns Hopkins.