Wound Care Research at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting

I just returned from the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, where parts of my wound care research were presented as a poster. My co-author was geriatrician-in-training Dr. Rikitha Menezes, who participated in data collection. Rikitha came from Canada to New York City for a year of fellowship at the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where I hold an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor. The third collaborating author was Dr. Santhini Namagiri, an attending physician at the New Jewish Home in Manhattan who holds an appointment with NYU Langone Health. For those not familiar with a poster session, this is a forum for sharing peer-reviewed research in a setting that encourages networking and face-to-face sharing of emerging information with colleagues from academic programs across the country. Our poster was entitled Wounds Related to Malignancy in Post-Acute/Long-term Care: A Case Series, and was the only wound-related poster among 947 others presented at the AGS national meeting!  This sad fact attests to the dire need for more wound care exposure among geriatric fellows, particularly in light of the fact that pressure injuries are an under-appreciated public health issue that disproportionately affects older adults.  Luckily there was a well attended wound care symposium led by my West Coast colleague Dr. Elizabeth Foy White-Chu.   This poster reviewed one year of wound consul...
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