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Colaboración FICE—FHAG—interRAI

31 de Octubre, Jornada interRAI BCN

El día 31 de Octubre del 2008 tendrá lugar la Jornada “State of the Art in Geriatric Assessment Technology ” brindará la oportunidad a todos aquellos profesionales dedicados a la atención de personas ancianas y/o discapacitadas intercambiar experiencias y profundizar en el conocimiento de los últimos desarrollos de los sistemas de valoración integral-integrados. Para ello contaremos también con la participación de destacados científicos de la red interRAI.

Lugar de la Jornada: Aula Magna, Casa de Convalecencia http://www.uab-casaconvalescencia.org/

Situada en la esquina entre las calles de Sant Quintín y de Sant Antonio M. Claret de Barcelona.

             • Aparcamiento: Aparcamiento del recinto del Hospital de Sant Pau

             • Metro: Línea azul (L5). Parada Hospital de Sant Pau. Línea amarilla (L4). Parada Guinardó

             • Autobuses: 15, 19, 20, 35, 45, 47, 50, 51, 92.

Prof. Roberto Bernabei, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.

Graduated from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, where he also attended an Internal Medicine residency. He is professor of Internal Medicine at the U.C.S.C. and chief of the Day-Hospital and Outpatient Geriatrics Department of the A. Gemelli University Hospital. He is also executive vice president of interRAI, board member of EAMA, the European Academy for Medicine on Aging and member of the Consiglio Superiore di Sanità, the highest Italian sanitary advisory committee to the Ministry of Health and the Parliament, and visiting associate professor at Brown University School of Medicine, Department of Community Health. Dr. Bernabei's main research interests are in geriatric assessment, models of health services for elderly care, and geriatric pharmacoepidemiology. His research has demonstrated the cost-effectiveness of a home care service based on case management and the use of a comprehensive assessment instrument in decreasing hospital admissions and length of stay. He created the SAGE database at Brown University together with Vince Mor. He published the book Geriatric Assessment Technology: The State of the Art with Lawrence Z. Rubenstein. He also is a co-author of the RAI-HC and the RAI-PC, and has authored over 120 papers/letters in peer- reviewed journals, four books, and eight book chapters

Prof. Brant E. Fries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Is a Professor of Health Management and Policy and Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA and Chief of Health Systems Research for the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center. Dr. Fries is a principal author of the Resource Utilization Groups (RUG, RUG-III) systems for classifying nursing home residents, used in a third of the US states and nationally for payment to nursing homes. He helped design the New York and Pennsylvania Medicaid nursing home payment systems, incorporating RUGs. As well, he co-authored the National Nursing Home Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) mandated by Congress. With international interest in assessment systems, he founded and is President of interRAI. He is co-author of several interRAI assessment systems including the RAI-HC, the RAI-MH, and the RAI-PC. Dr. Fries currently leads a project to design a national prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatric patients. He is the author of four books and over ninety articles on long-term care and quantitative modeling of health care systems.

Prof. John Hirdes, University of Waterlo, Ontario, Canada      

Is a Professor in the Department of Health Studies and Gerontology at the University of Waterloo, Toronto, Canada. He is also cross-appointed to the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and to Gerontological Studies at McMaster University. He has conducted applied research in health care settings for over 15 years, and is the Scientific Director of the Homewood Research Institute at Homewood Health Centre in Guelph. Prior to this appointment he served as Director of Research at Providence Centre, Scarborough. The Homewood Research Institute is the new site of the Canadian Collaborating Centre – interRAI. As a Fellow and Board Member of interRAI, Dr. Hirdes (along with Dr. Katherine Berg of McGill University) represents interRAI in Canada. Dr. Hirdes led interRAI efforts to create the Mental Health and Community Mental Health assessment systems, the System for Classification of In-Patient Psychiatry, Home Care Quality Indicators (co-PI with Brant Fries) and is a member of the interRAI Restructuring Committee. In May 2000, he received a 5-year Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) in support of his RAI systems work

Prof. Len Gray, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Is a Professor in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia, an appointment that he began in early 2002. Previously, he held a variety of senior general and aged care management positions within the public health system in Melbourne, Victoria, and an academic appointment at Melbourne University. He commenced his career as a physician /administrator to become involved in a wide range of research and development projects that focused on service delivery models for the elderly in community and hospital settings. He has held the positions of Secretary and President of the Australian Society for Geriatric Medicine, and has directed or participated in several high level reviews of health and aged care policy at national and state levels. He joined InterRAI in 2001, following involvement and use of the RAI approach in one of Australia's Coordinated Care Trials. He is currently establishing an InterRAI coordinating office for Australia.

Dr. Harriet Finne-Sovieri, University of Helsinki, Finland

geriatric consultant, graduated from the University of Helsinki in 1980. She became board-certified in geriatric medicine in 1994. She has been involved in research and publications in the geriatric field since 1982 and in 1995 began research with the MDS. At present, Dr. Finne-Soveri is the chief medical officer and managing director in the largest nursing home in Helsinki, Finland. She also is a senior lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and has been on the medical faculty in geriatric medicine since 1993. Her other appointments include researcher at the National Research and Development Centre (STAKES) since 1994, interRAI Fellow (1997) and member of EAMA (1998).

Prof. Trevor F. Smith, Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Smith is a co-author of the interRAI Palliative Care, and has led pilot studies of that instrument in several jurisdictions across Canada. As a postdoctoral student he assisted with the development (and now ongoing research) of the interRAI-Mental Health. As of October 2005, the interRAI Mental Health was mandated as the common assessment instrument for all designated psychiatric beds in the Province of Ontario (Canada) and constitutes part of the Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), Canadian Institute for Health Information. Dr. Smith also collaborates on the development of the interRAI-Community Mental Health instrument. A sociologist by training, he received his doctoral degree from the University of Toronto in 1996. His research interests focus upon psychosocial factors in mental health and palliative / end-of-life care.

Prof. Miel Ribbe, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands    

Graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Holland in 1973. He worked for three years in two nursing homes in the region of The Hague. From 1976 to 1989 he worked in Amstelhof in Amsterdam, first as a nursing home physician, then as head of the medical and paramedical depart-ment. From 1980 through 1986 he was member of the board of the Dutch Society for Nursing Home Physicians, and was chairman during the last 2 years. In 1989 he was appointed as full professor in nursing home medicine at the Vrije Univers-iteit -Free University- in Amsterdam, where he established the curriculum to teach medical students long term care, research in nursing home medicine, the post-graduate vocational training of nursing home physicians and the post-graduate training in long term care for the elderly (refresher courses). In that same year nursing home medicine was recog-nized by the Royal Dutch Medical Association as a separate medical spe-cialty. The country's first vocational training for nursing home physicians (a two year program with 1 day per week at the Vrije Univer-siteit for theoretical training and 4 days per week in a teaching nursing home for practical training) was started at his department. Since 1991 Dr. Ribbe has worked 1 day a week as a nursing home phys-ician in Het Zonnehuis Amstelveen, the Netherland's first academic nursing home and the first to implement the MDS. He became an interRAI Fellow in 1992

Prof. Wouter WA Zuurmond, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Graduated in Medicine at the Vrije University Amsterdam in 1973, became specialist in anaesthesiology in 1978. Folllowing his PhD worked as Head of the Department of Anaesthetiscs at the University of Amsterdam, Academical Medical Centre. Since 1990 his career has been focusing on the field of Pain Clinics and Palliative Care, becoming in 2005 Professor of Anaesthesiology with Special interest in Palliative Care and Pain Clinics at the Vrije Universiteit Medical Center. He is also Medical Director of the hospice Kuria.