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 October 7 Rounds

October 7, 2025 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST

Title:
From Quality Standard to Quality Sleep: Improving Adult Insomnia Care in Ontario

Presenter:

Dr. Sophiya Benjamin MBBS, FRCPC, DABPN Geriatric Psychiatrist

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Learning Objectives:

Understand how the Insomnia Disorder quality standard and accompanying resources can be used to improve care for people with insomnia disorder in Ontario.
Explore opportunities to address systemic barriers to accessing treatment for insomnia disorder in older adults.
Learn where to access key resources and tools to support health care teams in providing better care for older adults with insomnia disorder.

Presenter:

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, a publicly funded, not-for-profit organization that optimizes medications in older adults through clinical consultations in Ontario and education of clinicians nationally and internationally. 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.

Missing October 7th Rounds?

We will be hosting an additional webinar session that will broadcast a recording of Dr. Benjamin's presentation: "From Quality Standard to Quality Sleep: Improving Adult Insomnia Care in Ontario". Please register to attend the replay session.

Replay session: October 15 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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