The Frailty Seminar Series are an exchange of evidence based practices and research advances in all aspects of frailty and are open to researchers, students, policy makers & healthcare professionals involved with (or outside) geriatric medicine.
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Frailty Seminar Series – Frailty: Precision Approach and Multidomain Intervention
June 2024 – The presenter for this seminar is Professor Liang-Kung Chen, Nat Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Frailty Seminar Series – Frailty and Intrinsic Capacity
May 2024 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr Matteo Cesari, World Health Organisation, Switzerland.
Frailty Seminar Series – Recent Developments in Frailty Epidemiology
April 2024 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr Emiel O. Hoogendijk, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Frailty Seminar Series – An update on the VA-Frailty Index: moving from big data to the clinic
March 2024 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr Ariela Orkaby, Harvard Medical School and VA Boston Healthcare System, USA.
Frailty Seminar Series – Cardiovascular Disease and Frailty (Panel)
February 2024 – The presenters for this panel are Dr Daniel E. Forman (University of Pittsburgh Medical School, USA), Dr Quin E. Denfield (Oregon Health & Science University, USA) and Dr Oliver Todd (University of Leeds, NHS, UK).
Frailty Seminar Series – Biomarkers of Frailty and Sarcopenia
November 2023 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr Emanuele Marzetti, MD Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Rome, Italy.
Frailty Seminar Series – Integrated Care for Frailty
October 2023 – The presenter for this seminar is Professor Anne Hendry, International Foundation for Integrated Care Scotland Hub, UK.
Frailty Seminar Series – Physical Frailty: A Biological Marker of Aging?
September 2023 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr John E Morley, Professor of Medicine at St Louis University.
Frailty Seminar Series – Community Approach for Frailty Prevention
Kuly 2023 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr Hidenori Arai, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan.
Frailty Seminar Series – Sex Differences in Frailty
June 2023 – The presenters for this panel are Dr Emily Gordon (University of Queensland, Australia) and Dr David Ward (University of Queensland, Australia).
Frailty Seminar Series – Frailty – the Research Clinical Practice Gap
May 2023 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr Jean Woo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China).
Frailty & Cognitive Impairment (Panel)
April 2023 – The panel members are Kenneth Rockwood, MD, MPA (Dalhousie University, Canada) – Bruno Vellas, MD ( Toulouse University, France ) – Carlos Cano-Gutierrez, MD (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia) and the panel topic is ‘Frailty and Cognitive Impairment’.
Frailty Seminar Series: New Developments in Frailty Index
March 2023 – The presenter for this seminar is Olga Theo, PhD (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada) and the seminar topic is ‘New Developments in Frailty Index’.
Frailty Seminar Series: Frailty in the Hospital and after Discharge
February 2023 – The presenter for this seminar is Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas, MD, PhD (University Hospital of Getafe, Spain) and the seminar topic is ‘Frailty in the Hospital and After Discharge’.
Frailty Seminar Series – Panel – Mechanisms of Frailty
January 2023 – The participants for this panel include Susan Howlett, PhD (Dalhousie University, Canada), Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD (National Institute of Aging, USA) and Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, PhD (University of Florida, USA) The seminar includes presentations covering – Mechanisms of Frailty, Insights from Pre-Clinical Models and Iron Homestasis and it’s role in Biological Aging followed by questions to the panel.
Frailty Seminar Series – Frailty and Aging
December 2022 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr. Linda Fried and the seminar topic is ‘Frailty and Aging’. Dr. Fried is the Dean, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and Director, Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Centre and is a global leader in the fields of epidemiology and geriatrics.
Frailty Seminar Series – Sarcopenia, Frailty, and Geroscience
November 2022 – The presenter for this seminar is Roger Fielding, PhD and the seminar topic is ‘Sarcopenia, Frailty and Geroscience’. Dr. Fielding is a Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.
Frailty Seminar Series – Panel – COVID 19 and Frailty
October 2022 – The panel includes Simon Conroy, MB ChB, PhD, University Hospitals of Leicester (UK), George Kuchel, MD, CM, FRCP, University of Connecticut (USA) and Sean X. Leng, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University (USA). The seminar includes presentations covering COVID 19 and older people, frailty and the impact of frailty on COVID vaccination and COVID-related disability followed by questions to the panel.
Frailty Seminar Series – W.H.O ICOPE Monitor Digital Program in Clinical Practice
September 2022 – The presenter for this seminar is Bruno Vellas MD. The seminar topic is the ‘W.H.O ICOPE Monitor Digital Program in Clinical Practice’. Professor Duque is the Bruno Vellas serves as Co-Chair for the ACTC Non-Pharmacological Interventions Committee. Dr. Vellas is the chair of the Gérontopôle & Department of Geriatric Internal Medicine at the Toulouse University Hospital and is member of INSERM UMR 1027.
Frailty Seminar Series – Osteosarcopenia and Frailty
July 2022 – The presenter for this seminar is Professor Gustavo Duque. The seminar topic is ‘Osteosarcopenia and Frailty’. Professor Duque is the Director of AIMSS, a geriatrician and clinical and biomedical researcher with a special interest in osteoporosis, sarcopenia and frailty in older persons.
Frailty Seminar Series – Frailty Education in the Era of Social Media
June 2022 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr. Mario Ulises Pérez Zepeda. The seminar topic is ‘Frailty Education in the Era of Social Media’. Mario Ulises Pérez-Zepeda is a Mexican clinical geriatrician and researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Geriatría, Mexico.
Frailty Seminar Series – New Insights on Frailty
May 2022 – The presenter for this seminar is Professor Roman Romero-Ortuno, Associate Professor in Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Physician in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin. The seminar topic is New Insights on Frailty.
Frailty Seminar Series – Lifestyle, Hormonal and Anabolic Interventions to Ameliorate Frailty
April 2022 – The presenter for this seminar is Dennis Villareal, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA who speaks about Lifestyle, Hormonal and Anabolic Interventions to Ameliorate Frailty.
Frailty Seminar Series – ViviFrail: Exercise for Older Adults with Frailty.
Mar 2022 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr Mikel Izquierdo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain who speaks about ViviFrail: Exercise for Older Adults with Frailty.
Frailty Seminar Series – Frailty Indexes based on Electronic Health Record Data
Jan 2022 – Panelists for this seminar include Dr Andrew Clegg, University of Leeds UK, Dr Ariela Orkaby, Harvard Medical School and Dr Nicholas M Pajewski, Wake Forest University Health
Frailty Seminar Series – Frailty and Vaccine Effectiveness and Response to Effectiveness
Dec 2021 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr Melissa K. Andrew, Dalhousie University.
Frailty Seminar Series – Frailty and Heart Failure: What if all the Failure is not in the Heart?
Nov 2021 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr Jonathan Afilalo, McGill University, Canada.
Frailty Seminar Series – Frailty as an Outcome of Clinical Trials
Oct 2021 – Panelists for this seminar include Dr Matteo Cesari (Universita di Milano, Italy), Dr Kenneth Rockwood (Dalhousie University, Canada), Dr Jeremny Walston (Johns Hopkins University, USA).
Frailty Seminar Series – Physical Frailty: A Biological Marker of Aging?
Sep 2021 – The presenter for this seminar is Dr John E Morley, Professor of Medicine at St Louis University.