Geriatric Emergency Medicine

Name:  Marie-Pier Lanoue

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship:  2021-2022

Projects: Revision of geri-EM.com an educational resource; Exploring the correlation between frailty, cognition, and ED service utilization indicators (supervised by Dr. Jacques Lee)

Name:  Rebecca Schonnop

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship:  2019-2020

Research project (if applicable):  Barriers to delirium identification among ED staff (supervised by Dr. Jacques Lee)

Published article (s):  pending

Where are they now:  Staff Emergency Physician, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta

Name:  Lorraine Lau

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship:  2019-2020 (six-month fellowship combined with Trauma fellowship)

Research project (if applicable):  Development of an order set for geriatric trauma at Sunnybrook Hospital

Where are they now:  Staff Emergency Physician and Trauma Team Leader, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Québec

Name:  Christopher Skappak

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2018-2019

Research project (if applicable):  Urine metabolomics and delirium screening

Where are they now:  Emergency Physician, Vancouver BC

Name:  Savannah Forrester

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship:  2018-2019

Research project (if applicable):  Exploring the development of Geriatric EM competencies among practicing emergency physicians

Where are they now:  Staff Emergency Physician, Victoria BC

Name: Alice Gray

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2017-2018 (six-month fellowship) combined with simulation education

Where are they now:  Staff physician, University Health Network, University of Toronto

Name: Brittany Ellis

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2017-2018

Published article (s):

Statement on minimum standards for the care of older people in emergency departments by the geriatric emergency medicine special interest group of the international federation for emergency medicine

Frailty: A key concept to improve older person care

Using volunteers to improve the experience of older patients in the emergency department

Where are they now:

Emergency Physician, University of Saskatchewan

Physician Lead, Geriatric Emergency Medicine – Saskatchewan Health Authority

Assistant Professor – University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine

Name:  Audrey-Anne Brousseau

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2016-2017

Published article (s): Identification of older adults with frailty in the Emergency Department using a frailty index: results from a multinational study

Where are they now:  Director of Geriatric Emergency Department, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec

Geriatric Oncology

Name: Isabel Tejero

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2021 – 2022

Research project: Impact of sex in assessments and treatment recommendations in an Older Adult Cancer Clinic

Name: Samuel Dube

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2021 – 2022

Research project: Screening for frailty in a gynecologic oncology surgical clinic: a quality improvement project

Name: Naser Al-Qurini

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2019 – 2020

Research project: Comorbidity in older adults with cancer

Published article (s):

Geriatric oncology: A new horizon in cancer management for older adults

Geriatric surgical oncology

Where are they now: Academic Physician, Kuwait

Name: Fahad Al-Mugbel

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2019 – 2020 (Geriatric Oncology/Breast Medical Oncology)

Research project: Physical performance and chemotherapy-related outcomes

Published article (s):

Role of the Vulnerable Elders Survey-13 screening tool in predicting treatment plan modification for older adults with cancer

The role of grip strength and short physical performance battery test in predicting chemotherapy-related outcomes in older adults with cancer

Where are they now: Academic Medical Oncologist, Saudi Arabia

Name: Daniel Yokom

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2015 – 2016 (Geriatric Oncology/GI Medical Oncology)

Research project: Frailty in older adults with colorectal cancer

Published article (s):

Geriatric oncology screening tools for CGA-based interventions: results from a phase II study of geriatric assessment and management for older adults with cancer

Downstream consequences of abnormal cognitive screening in older adults seen pretreatment in a geriatric oncology clinic

Screening Tools in Geriatric Oncology

Name: Anne Horgan

Year started fellowship / Year ended fellowship: 2008 – 2011 (Geriatric Oncology/Lung Medical Oncology)

Research project: Impact of comprehensive geriatric assessment in older medical oncology patients

Published article (s):

Tolerability and efficacy of docetaxel in older men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) in the TAX 327 trial

Impact and Feasibility of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the Oncology Setting: A Pilot Study

Cancer screening in older adults: What to do when we don’t know

The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in oncology: promises, pitfalls, and practicalities

Where are they now:

Community Medical Oncologist, Cork, Ireland

Founding member of Irish Geriatric Oncology Society