interRAI España

Colaboración FICE—FHAG—interRAI

14 de Septiembre, Jornada interRAI Bilbao

El día 14 de Septiembre del 2010 tendrá lugar la II Jornada interRAI España “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: Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Vizcaya

Horario 16:00 horas a 20:00 horas

Traducción simultánea

 

PARTICIPANTES PROVISIONALES

Prof. John Morris, Institute for Ageing Research, Boston, USA

Prof. Morris holds the Alfred A. and Gilda Slifka Research Chair at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where he serves as co-director of the HRCA Research and Training Institute. As Principal Investigator of the CMS-funded project to develop and test quality indicators, he is collaborating with Abt Associates, Inc., Brown University, and University of Michigan to review published and unpublished quality indicator systems for chronic, post-acute and special populations, develop new indicators, and validate selected quality indicators during field tests involving on-site facility data gathering. Among his primary research interests are issues of functioning, cognition, clinical conditions, pressure ulcers, behavior, and mood. With collaborators at Brown University and HRCA, he has developed covariate models of cross-state data to create outcome measures. He has actively participated in the development of the RAI-HC system for evaluating the needs, strengths, and preferences of elderly clients of home care agencies. Dr. Morris was the Task Leader for the federally mandated HCFA project to develop the nursing home MDS and Resident Assessment Protocols. Under more recent HCFA contracts, Dr. Morris was the Principal Investigator in the development of MDS Version 2.0, and has co-authored the RAI system for post-acute care

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

He is 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. Palmi V. Jonsson, University of Iceland

He is Chief of Geriatrics at Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland and an Associate Professor of Geriatrics at the University of Iceland School of Medicine. He is Board certified in Internal Medicine (New Britain/UCON) and Geriatric Medicine (Harvard University) in the USA and Iceland. He is a Fellow of the American Colleague of Physicians. Dr. Jónsson was a member of two national committees which generated two reports, one on prioritization in health care and another one defining health policy goals until 2010. He also sits on Ministry of Health committees for nursing home preadmission assessment and the Icelandic use of the RAI instrument. He is an interRAI Fellow and currently acts as the Board secretary. Dr. Jónsson's previous research interests centered on falls among the elderly and on ethical issues. He is currently involved with research into the use of the RAI systems, the genetics of Alzheimer's disease, and longevity with the DeCODE Company. He is on the executive Board of the Aging, Genes and Environment Study in Reykjavik, which is a co-operative study between the Icelandic Heart Association and the National Institute on Aging and is in charge of the brain part of the study

Prof. Prof. Jacob Gindin, University of Haifa, Israel

He is the director of the Geriatric Institute of Education and Research, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel, and of the Geriatrics Department in the Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in the same center. He is also head of the School for Foreign Medical Graduates at the Kaplan Medical Center. Since 2000, he is head of the Laboratory for Research in Geriatrics and Gerontology, and of the MA program in Gerontology for Medical Doctors, at the Faculty of Health and Social Studies at Haifa University, where he is Associate Professor in the Department of Gerontology. He is a member of the Israel Society of Internal Medicine, Israel Society of Epidemiology, Israel Medical Association, and of the American Geriatrics Society. Gindin was awarded grants from the Camp David Institute of International Health, New York, USA in 1978 and 1987, and has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City since 1989. He was a member of the Board of the Israel Geriatrics Association and chaired its Academic Committee. He is a member of the Israeli National Council of Geriatrics, and chair of the "Inter-Ministerial (Health and Social Affairs) Committee for Patient's Rights and Dignity". In 2002 he was nominated a member of the Steering Committee of the World Health Forum, for 2002-2003 for Ageing Policy and Research. He is also (2003) a member of the Era-Age, a European Framework on Research and Ageing. Prof. Gindin became an interRAI Fellow in 1999. He is presently head of the interRAI Committee for International Development (CID) and a member of the Strategic Planning

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. 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 .

 

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