Jun 14, 2010
I recently served as keynote speaker at the American Medical Directors Association annual meeting in Long Beach, California. The reason AMDA picked me was my photos of aging, which you can view on my online portfolio. The title of my talk was Geriatrics, Humanistic...
May 25, 2010
In 1981 I was an Internal Medicine intern rotating through a community hospital in New Jersey. My job was to carry out the day-to-day patient care under the direction of the private docs. I will never forget the first experience that showed me that geriatric...
May 17, 2010
The Answer: Not as much as nurses!! This past weekend I presented a new study on how much medical residents know about pressure ulcers at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Annual Scientific Meeting in Orlando, FL. In our research we tested medical doctors in...
Apr 29, 2010
A major study published in The Gerontologist has shown that pressure ulcer prevention measures are lacking in high risk patients. A research group based in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine studied...
Apr 26, 2010
A substantial multi-billion dollar industry in implantable cardiac devices has emerged in recent years. Technologies such as cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices are being implanted in many people who may not need them,...
Apr 19, 2010
On a trip to Australia this past November I had the opportunity to visit with and photograph the oldest professional ping pong player in the world. 98 year old Dorothy DeLow lives in a well kept home nestled in a suburb of Sydney. She demonstrated her ability to...
