Drive to Deprescribe: Navigating the Revised AGS Beers Criteria in Clinical Practice (October 2023)
Recorded On: 10/19/2023
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The issue of polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) has been an ongoing concern. The PALTC setting has one of the highest polypharmacy rates, which increases the risk for adverse events and drug interactions.
Since May 2021, PALTmed and ASCP have been holding meetings and developing resources to help prescribers, pharmacists, DONs, CNOs, CMOs, and CEOs optimize medication use in the long-term care setting. This is the recording of this topic's session.
For more information and additional resources, visit paltmed.org/drive-deprescribe.
Judith L. Beizer, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP, AGSF
Dr. Judith Beizer is a tenured Clinical Professor at St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Queens, NY. As part of her duties, she practices as a Clinical Pharmacist at the Stern Family Center for Rehabilitation in the Northwell Health System. At the Stern Center, she provides clinical pharmacy services for sub-acute rehabilitation patients, precepts pharmacy students and residents on rotation, and serves on the faculty of the geriatric medicine fellowship program. Dr. Beizer is a board-certified geriatric pharmacist.
Dr. Beizer received her bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy and then earned a doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Tennessee. After pursuing a residency in clinical pharmacy at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, she completed a fellowship in geriatric pharmacy at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY.
Dr. Beizer is a past president of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP). She was the 2016 recipient of the George F. Archambault award, ASCP’s highest honor, and the 2001 recipient of the ASCP Richard S. Berman service award. She is currently serving on the US Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee. Dr. Beizer is an active member of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and serves on their Nominations Committee. She previously served 9 years on the AGS Public Policy Committee. She was on the expert panel that developed the 2012, 2015, and 2019 AGS Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. Dr. Beizer is the Consulting Editor for Pharmacotherapy for the AGS Geriatrics Review Syllabus.
Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD CMD FACP
CMO
Avalon Healthcare Inc, Caldera Care
Dr. Sabine von Preyss-Friedman is an Internist and Geriatric Medical Specialist who has practiced in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) since her fellowship at the University of Washington. She first became a certified Medical Director in 1992 and has since been passionately engaged in the Medical Direction of SNFs. In 2011, she was honored by AMDA/Society of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (now PALTMed) as Medical Director of the Year.As a co-chair of AMDA's acclaimed D2D/Drive to deprescribe initiative she has won the John Gladstone award as well as AMDA's Choosing Wisely award. In addition to providing services as Medical Director for several facilities in the Seattle area, she is an Associate Clinical Professor Emerita at the University of Washington and serves as Chief Medical Officer of Avalon Healthcare and Caldera Care.
Dr. von Preyss-Friedman is deeply involved in quality improvement, developing standards, and outcome measures in SNFs, and successfully translating medical evidence into clinical care. Her mission is to support the best possible medical care for all patients.
Dr. von Preyss-Friedman currently is the president – elect of PALTMed/formerly AMDA and immediate past president of the WA Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term care Medicine.
This course is not for credit.
