GeriMedRisk Virtual Rounds

GeriMedRisk - Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology Rounds

GeriMedRisk offers free monthly webcast accredited educational rounds on topics related to safe prescribing for older adults. For more information please join our mailing list. Registration is required to attend.

GeriMedRisk September Rounds

September 10, 2024 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST

Title:
Update on the Management of Insomnia in Older Adults

Presenters:
Dr. Sophiya Benjamin MBBS, FRCPC, DABPN Geriatric Psychiatrist
Pam Howell RPh, BScPhm

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Objectives:

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Learn about the Older Adult Insomnia Collaborative.
Review the current evidence for the treatment of insomnia.
Review the emerging evidence and safety considerations for dual orexin antagonists in older adults with a focus on lemborexant and daridorexant.
Apply a stepwise approach to managing insomnia using a case-based example.

Presenters:

Dr. Sophiya Benjamin MBBS, FRCPC, DABPN Geriatric Psychiatrist

Dr. Benjamin is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and the Schlegel Chair for Mental Health in Aging. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of GeriMedRisk. Dr. Benjamin’s work focuses on implementing and integrating evidence informed solutions at a system level for common challenges in older adults such as polypharmacy and insomnia. She was the inaugural Co-Medical Director at the Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario and serves as a system leader in geriatric psychiatry. She completed her training in general adult and geriatric psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and her master's in health sciences through the Duke-National Institute for Health (NIH) Clinical Research Training Program. Her clinical practice is in the Waterloo region of Ontario.

Pam Howell RPh, BScPhm

Pam Howell is a pharmacist, completing her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at the University of Toronto in 1999. She has been with the GeriMedRisk team since 2020, collaborating with Specialized Geriatric Services and supporting older adult care in the Champlain region. Since 2018, she also continues to work with the deprescribing.org team supporting their efforts to create evidence-based tools and guidelines to inform opportunities to reduce problematic polypharmacy in older adults. Previous to this, she has over 20 years of experience working at Bruyère Continuing Care on the inpatient Geriatric Rehabilitation, Complex Continuing Care and Palliative Care units focusing on medication optimization within an interdisciplinary team. She is looking forward to sharing her passion for safe medication prescribing in older adults.

Missing September Rounds?

We will be hosting an additional webinar session that will broadcast a recording of Dr. Sophiya Benjamin and Pam Howell's presentation, "Update on the Management of Insomnia in Older Adults"

Replay session: Sept. 18 at 7 PM EST

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Please note: this session will not be interactive

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Accreditation Statement:

GeriMedRisk- Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

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