Journal Club by Gerald Pankratz, MD

Meeting link: https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=m77e9d08171f534d0461b3afa0568d1be  

Meeting number: 120 345 3963

Password: geriatrics (43742874 from phones)

Phone: 1-415-655-0001

As a result of this educational regularly scheduled series, learners as members of the healthcare team will be able to:

1. Recall the most common cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries in older adults
2. Organize a list of falls risk factors as far as impact on falls risk
3. Healthcare teams should better be able to select patients for additional falls risk evaluation

Speaker biography:

Gerald Pankratz, MD, graduated from The Ohio University College of Medicine and then completed a Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, followed by a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship.  He joined the clinical faculty and started a primary care geriatric practice at the UW Health East Clinic in Madison, Wisconsin.  He has been conducting clinical falls risks assessments at the interdisciplinary falls clinic for nearly ten years.