1. Models of Care - Australia - Dr. Amy Sweeny
2. Models of Care - Europe - Dr. Rosa McNamara
3. Models of Care - Asia - Dr. Colin Ng
4. Models of Care - North America - Dr. Lauren Southerland 

Date and Time

Timezone - United Coordinated Time

Monday, 30 November, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm UTC

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Moderators

Dr. Shan Liu - USA

Shan Liu is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director at Massachusetts General Hospital. She co-leads the Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0 update and enjoys hosting karaoke parties and is trying very much to organize her cluttered home.

Speakers

Dr. Rosa McNamara - Ireland  

Rosa McNamara was the former Chair of the GEM SIG group and is a consultant in Emergency Medicine with special interests in Geriatric Emergency Medicine and Medical Education. She has worked in the United Kingdom and in Ireland developing clinical and educational pathways for unscheduled care of Older Adults with a focus on integration and inter-professional working. She has masters degrees in gerontology from King's College London, and in medical education from the University of Dundee.  She is also a member of EUSEM involved in the section of Geriatric Emergency Medicine and the Emergency Medicine Examination Reference Group for Europe (EMERGE). She is currently working in St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland and is an Associate Clinical Professor at University College Dublin.

Dr. Lauren Southerland - USA

Lauren Southerland, MD MPH is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University. Her research uses implementation science and process improvement tools to improve the acute care the of older adults. 

Dr. Colin Ong - Singapore

Dr Colin Ong, Senior Consultant at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. Dr Colin is the founding chair of the Singapore Section of Geriatric Emergency Medicine and Deputy Chair and past Secretary of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) Geriatric Emergency Medicine special interest group. He undertook a clinical fellowship in Geriatric Emergency Medicine in Wellington, New Zealand in 2019 and is the program director of Case Management for At Risk patients in the Emergency Department (CARED), right siting high risk ED patients through multidisciplinary care management and coordinated transitional care and ANGEL (Acute Nursing home General Emergency Line) a pre-hospital teleconsult and nursing empowerment program. He is currently working on a new falls prevention RCT in the ED titled RESTORE (Resilience and Strength Training for Older Adults Reaching the ED) for frail older adults.  

Dr. Amy Sweeny - Australia

Amy Sweeny is an epidemiologist and registered nurse with two decades of experience in hospital-based research. She is a lecturer at Griffith University and an Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor at Bond University. She currently works as the research development manager for the Emergency Department Collaborative Research Group and is responsible for tracking research projects and their outputs and supervising students from both Bond and Griffith Universities. She often assists with study development and statistical analysis across the research pillars.

She is an investigator on research projects related to improving intravenous cannulation practices in adults and children, the care of vulnerable populations, and disaster preparedness.

She is interested in communicable diseases, cardiovascular diseases, developing emergency medicine and the application of machine learning to improve healthcare.