Volume 20 - Number 4 - April 2012

Based on a Visiting Faculty Workshop Series chaired by Steven Edelman, MD and Dace Trence, MD

Steven R. Gambert, MD, AGSF, MACP Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Geriatrics®

Ellen Loreck, MS, RD, LDN; Roja Chimakurthi, MBBS; and Nanette I. Steinle, MD, RD Series Editor: Nanette I. Steinle, MD, RD Ms. Loreck is from the Department of Clinical Nutrition Services, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore. Drs. Chimakurthi and Steinle are from the Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, MD.    

Siu-Hin Wan, BS; Helen H. Kyomen, MD, MS, DFAPA; Angela Georgia Catic, MD; and Zaldy S. Tan, MD, MPH Mr. Wan is a fourth year medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Dr. Kyomen is Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, and Dr. Catic is Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Dr. Kyomen is also Director of Education and Research in Geriatric Psychiatry, North Shore Medical Center, Salem, MA, and Associate Psychiatrist, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, both of Partners HealthCare, Inc. Dr. Catic is also from the Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Dr. Tan is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.  

Sumanth Kidambi; Shruti Dhapodkar, MD; and Robert Francilin, MD Mr. Kidambi is a second-year medical student, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago; Dr. Dhapodkar is a general surgeon, Maricopa County Hospital, Phoenix, AZ; and Dr. Francilin is a hospitalist, Chatham Hospitalists, Savannah, GA.

Bo Xu, MBBS (Hons); and Benny Katz, MBBS, FRACP, FFPMANZCA Dr. Xu is registrar, Geriatrics Evaluation and Management Unit; and Dr. Katz is associate professor, consultant geriatrician, and pain specialist, St. George’s Hospital, St. Vincent’s Health, Victoria, Australia.