2024 Brock Institute - Glennan Center Community Lecture

Objectives:

1. Explore risk factors and interventions to minimize falls among older adults.

2. Discuss the role of mobility in the community and hospital settings to minimize falls.

5:30 pm: Registration and Dinner begins

6:30 pm: Scholarship Presentation and Lecture

8:00 pm: Event concludes

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

Dr. Cynthia J. Brown completed an undergraduate degree in physical therapy from East Carolina University and an MD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

At Yale University, Dr. Brown completed residency training in internal medicine, which included a Chief Resident year, and a three-year Geriatric Medicine fellowship.

She was on faculty at the University of Alabama, Birmingham from 2003 – 2021, where she served as the Division Director for Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, and Director of the UAB Center for Healthy Aging.

In May 2021, Dr. Brown became Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. Dr. Brown’s research interests combine the issues of low mobility and falls in the hospitalized older adult.

She has won numerous awards for her research including the 2016 American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award and the 2020 Gerontological Society of America, Joseph T. Freeman Award, awarded to a prominent clinician in the field of aging, both in research and practice.

Dr. Brown is passionate about faculty and staff development and leadership training, which are focuses she brings to LSU. Over the next few years, Dr. Brown will be focusing her efforts on transforming the LSUHSC Department of Internal Medicine into a department with a national reputation for excellence in medical education.

Consider joining us for a second lecture by Dr. Brown!

12:00 pm

EVMS Waitzer Hall, Room 300 or via Zoom

Developing the Evidence for Hospital Mobility

Objectives:

1. Describe physiologic changes associated with bed rest/low mobility during hospitalization for older adults.

2. Identify common barriers and facilitators for hospital mobility.

3. Summarize interventions successfully used in hospital setting to increase mobility.

Host or Publisher M. Foscue Brock Institute