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GeriMedRisk - Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology Rounds

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GeriMedRisk March Rounds

March 3, 2026 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST

Title:
From Fracture to Recovery: Interprofessional and Pharmacy Led Approaches to Improving Hip Fracture Outcomes

Presenters:
Dr. Jenny Thain, MD, FRCPC

Chris Fan-Lun

Dana Summers Laframboise

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Learning Objectives:

Describe Ontario Health’s three year Hip Fracture Quality Improvement Strategy
Identify practical change ideas and associated resources from the Hip Fracture Implementation Toolkit that are relevant to improving hip fracture care in their own organization
Recognize opportunities to implement a pharmacy led osteoporosis management pathway
Integrate medication optimization into hip fracture care pathways by clarifying roles across the interprofessional team (geriatricians, pharmacists, NPs, primary care)

Presenters:

Dr. Jenny Thain, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Jenny Thain is Ontario Health’s clinical lead to support implementation of the Hip Fracture quality standard. Dr. Thain is a geriatrician at Parkwood Institute, an associate professor of geriatric medicine at Western University, and an international leader in hip fracture and osteoporosis care. At the London Health Sciences Centre, she leads the Hip Fracture Quality Improvement initiative and was instrumental in developing its hip fracture pathway. Dr. Thain also chairs the Osteoporosis and Bone Health Special Interest Group of the Canadian Geriatrics Society, serves on Osteoporosis Canada’s Scientific Advisory Council, and holds leadership roles with the Fragility Fracture Network. She also established Canada’s first Orthogeriatric Fellowship and the ECHO Orthogeriatric program (a virtual learning community), based on the Hip Fracture quality standard.

Chris Fan-Lun

Chris Fan-Lun is a board-certified geriatrics pharmacist (BCGP) with more than 20 years of experience in acute care. He is a based at the Veterans Centre of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, working as a Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator with a focus on palliative care, geriatrics, and general internal medicine. Chris is also an adjunct lecturer in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at University of Toronto where he teaches Pharmacotherapy 1: Foundations and General Medicine and Pharmacotherapy in Older Adults. He is a faculty liaison and mentor for the Pharmacy Awareness of Geriatrics (PAG) student special interest group. His scholarly interests include medication optimization in frail older persons, interprofessional education, and delirium.

Dana Summers Laframboise

Dana Summers Laframboise is a senior specialist in quality improvement in Ontario Health’s Clinical and Quality Standards program. She holds a master’s in health administration and a black belt in lean six sigma, and led the development of Ontario Health’s recently released Hip Fracture Care Implementation Toolkit.

Missing March 3 Rounds?

We will be hosting an additional webinar session that will broadcast a recording of Dr. Jenny Thain, Chris Fan-Lun and Dana Summers Laframboise's presentation: "From Fracture to Recovery: Interprofessional and Pharmacy Led Approaches to Improving Hip Fracture Outcomes". Please register to attend the replay session.

Replay session: March 11 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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