Eat Walk Engage: Translating the evidence for better care in older people
Prue McRae is the Program Manager for Eat Walk Engage at RBWH. A physiotherapist by background, she is Project Manager and associate investigator of a large multi-site health services research project, Collaborative for Hospitalised Elders: Reducing the Impact of Stays in Hospital (CHERISH).
Dr Alison Mudge is a general Physician and Clinical Director of Research and Education in the Internal Medicine and Aged Care Department, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. Alison leads a multidisciplinary research group committed to improving hospital and post-hospital care for complex older patients. Research interests include geriatric syndromes, malnutrition, exercise rehabilitation, and hospital readmissions. She leads the Eat Walk Engage program to reduce delirium and enhance functional recovery in older inpatients, and is CI-A on the CHERISH multi-site cluster randomised trial investigating its implementation at scale. She was CI-A on the EJECTION-HF multi-site randomised controlled trial of exercise rehabilitation in heart failure.
RSVP
A light lunch will be served from 12noon for those who RSVP by 9 September 2018. Please advise any dietary requirements. Video conference available on request.
Please RSVP to chsr@uq.edu.au.
About Geriatric Medicine Seminar Series
Geriatric Medicine Seminar Series
UQ Centre for Health Services Research and the Queensland Dementia, Ageing, and Frailty Clinical Network present a seminar series featuring researchers from medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy, and psychology as well as biomedical engineering, health economics, data analytics, health informatics with a focus on ageing and geriatric medicine.
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Venue
Translational Research Institute 37 Kent Street, Woolloongabba