The Geriatric Emergency Medicine research program at UW aims to improve health care for older adults with acute illnesses. Many factors limit older adults’ access to safe, patient-centered, efficient, high-quality, acute illness care. These factors lead to poor outcomes, including morbidity, mortality, and unnecessary use of emergency and acute care facilities. Our research group is working to identify these factors by developing and testing novel programs to improve the care delivered to acutely ill older adults.
Dr. Manish Shah leads the aging research program and is considered a subject matter expert in geriatric emergency care and community paramedicine. Please contact Dr. Shah at mnshah@medicine.wisc.edu if you are interested in collaborating on research.
- Poster presentation (Gifford, Shah): “Identifying and Prioritizing Research to Improve Emergency Care of Persons Living with Dementia: A Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research 2.0 Network –Advancing Dementia Care (GEAR 2.0-ADC) Scoping Review” at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (Aug. 2022)
- Didactic session (Shah MN): “Ninth Annual Real-World Research Proposal Development” at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting (May 2022)
- Didactic session (Shah MN): “Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network: Advancing Dementia Care Network Priorities” at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting (May 2022)
- Advanced EM workshop (Patterson BW): “Enhancing Emergency Care Through Artificial Intelligence: Six Steps for Success” at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting (May 2022)
- Grand Rounds (Shah MN): “Discharge from the Emergency Department: Transition to Nowhere?” at the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Medicine (April 2022)
- Oral presentation (Lukasik M, Bandara T, Maru A, Jacobsohn GC, Loheimer M, Shah MN: “A Retrospective Content Analysis of Coach-Facilitated Goal Setting by Older Adults Following Emergency Department Discharge” at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting (May 2022)
- Oral presentation (A Gifford, R Green, G Jacobsohn…M Lohmeier, M Shah): “Scalar Assessment of the Family Caregiver Activation in Transitions Tool: An Exploratory Factor Analysis” at the 30th Annual Wisconsin Emergency Medicine Research Forum in Milwaukee, WI (April 21, 2022)
- Poster presentation (T Bandara, M Lukasik, G Jacobsohn…M Lohmeier, M Shah): “A Retrospective Content Analysis of Coach-facilitated Goal Setting by Older Adults Following ED Discharge” at the 30th Annual Wisconsin Emergency Medicine Research Forum in Milwaukee, WI (April 21, 2022)
- Poster presentation (A Gifford): “Emergency Department Care Transitions for Patients with Cognitive Impairment: A GEAR 2.0-ADC Scoping Review” (view poster) at the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s (ADRC) Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementias Research Day (April 5, 2022).
- Brian Patterson recently took the stage as an expert panelist at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Global Health Conference as part of the Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare Forum (March 2022).
- Poster presentation (G Jacobsohn, A Maru, C Engstrom, M Shah, B Patterson): “Collaborative design and implementation of an EHR-based clinical decision support system for fall-risk identification and referrals in emergency departments” at the AcademyHealth/NIH 14th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (December 14-16, 2021)
- Poster presentation (A Gifford): “Effect of Loneliness and Stress Management on Perceived Stress in Older Adults” at the Gerontological Society of America 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting (November 10-14, 2021)
- Poster presentation (D Hekman): “How Frequently are Caregivers Included in Patient Education for Oncology Patients?” at the Gerontological Society of America 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting (November 10-14, 2021)
- Poster presentation (A Maru, G Jacobsohn, C Engstrom, M Shah, B Patterson): “Implementation of a Clinical Decision Support System for Automated Fall-Risk Identification and Referrals in Emergency Departments” at the American Medical Informatics (AMIA) 2021 Annual Symposium (October 30-November 3, 2021)
- Poster presentation (A Maru, G Jacobsohn, C Engstrom, M Shah, B Patterson): “Evaluation of an Automated Fall-Risk Screening and Referral Program” at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) 2021 Scientific Assembly (October 25-28, 2021)
- Poster presentation (R Green): “Healthcare Use by Older Adults with Anxiety Following Emergency Department Visits: Effects of a Community-Paramedic-Delivered Care Transitions Intervention” at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2021 Annual Meeting (October 24-27, 2021)
- Gwen Costa Jacobsohn received the Presidential Best Abstract Award in the Clinical Investigation & Quality Improvement category at the American Geriatrics Society’s Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting (AGS 2021) for her abstract, “Design and Implementation of an Automated Fall-Risk Identification and Referral System in the ED.”
- Brian Patterson invited as a guest lecturer as part of the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Geronotlogy’s Health Science and Care Research Program seminar series. The title of his seminar, “Development of an Automated Screening and Referral Intervention to Prevent Falls Among Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department,” was presented on June 14, 2021.
- Aging Research Group presents at 2021 national meetings for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American Geriatrics Society. Read more…
- Intervention study on paramedic-coached ED care transitions for older adults presented at 13th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and AcademyHealth.
- Manish Shah presented research on ‘Telemedicine for the Dementia Population’ at the 2019 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Los Angeles, CA. He was also featured in subsequent interviews with NeurologyLive®, MD Magazine®, and mentioned in nearly 100 other media outlets.
- Brian Patterson selected as an ‘author spotlight’ member by the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) for his article on fall risk screening titled “Using the Hendrich II Inpatient Fall Risk Screen to Predict Outpatient Falls After Emergency Department Visits.”