{"id":1903,"date":"2021-06-21T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2021-06-21T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:32:32","slug":"2021-ags-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/2021\/06\/21\/2021-ags-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 AGS Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/06\/AGS-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"77\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1908 alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) held its annual conference virtually this year on May 13-May 15. Our four fellows, Drs. Maya Abdallah, Shravya Budidi, Emily Cetrone, and Sarah King, presented their quality improvement (QI) project titled, &#8220;Call Me Maybe: An Intervention to Reduce Telehealth No-Show Rates in a Geriatric Primary Care Clinic.&#8221; In addition to their group QI project, each of our fellows had their own individual projects. Our second-year fellow, Dr. Shivani Jindal, presented on, &#8220;Point of Care Ultrasound Testing for Clinicians Caring for Home Bound or Institutional-dwelling Older Adults: A National Survey and Needs Assessment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We also had faculty present at the AGS annual conference. The following faculty that had accepted abstracts were Drs. Ryan Chippendale, Hollis Day, Lindsay Demers, Rossana Lau-Ng, Nicole Mushero, and Vassiliki Pravodelov.<\/p>\n<p>There was a wide range of topics from our fellows and faculty, which included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical Education<\/li>\n<li>Fellowship Education<\/li>\n<li>Palliative Care Discussions<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Care Planning<\/li>\n<li>End of Life Care and Guardianship<\/li>\n<li>Decision Aids in Hematologic Malignancies<\/li>\n<li>Opioid Use Disorder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about the AGS conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/meeting.americangeriatrics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>. Next year&#8217;s conference will take place at Orlando, FL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) held its annual conference virtually this year on May 13-May 15. Our four fellows, Drs. Maya Abdallah, Shravya Budidi, Emily Cetrone, and Sarah King, presented their quality improvement (QI) project titled, &#8220;Call Me Maybe: An Intervention to Reduce Telehealth No-Show Rates in a Geriatric Primary Care Clinic.&#8221; In addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10303,"featured_media":1908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}