Course overview
Integrative Geriatrics: Baby Boomers Solution for Optimal Health
This course will cover key concepts of Integrative Geriatrics and discuss areas where the current system is failing. Clinical pearls in key domains will also be covered.
Faculty
Mikhail Kogan, MD
Board Review Series
AIHM 2018 Annual Conference
Required Lessons
1
Time to Complete
1 hour 15 minutes
Non-CME Eligible*
0 Credits
What you will learn
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Course Summary
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By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Describe how the concept of Integrative Medicine applies to the care of our elders
- Identify the societal trends of utilization of integrative modalities in geriatrics
- Utilize clinical pearls in key domains of geriatrics: Polypharmacy, UTI prevention and treatment.
Course includes:
Included in this course
Course Faculty
Mikhail Kogan, MD
About Mikhail
Dr. Kogan is a leader in the newly established field of Integrative Geriatrics. He is the editor of the seminal textbook “Integrative Geriatric Medicine” published by Oxford University Press and is a frequent speaker at a variety of international conferences on a number of different integrative medicine topics. He is also widely published in several leading peer-reviewed journals in integrative medicine, geriatrics, and education.
Dr. Kogan currently serves as medical director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine, associate director of the Geriatrics and Integrative Medicine Fellowships and director of the Integrative Medicine Track program at the George Washington University School of Medicine and works part-time faculty at the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, and GW Center for Aging, Health and Humanities.
In addition to his academic roles at GW University, Dr. Kogan serves on national boards and organizations including: the American Board of Integrative Medicine within the American Board of Physician Subspecialists (ABPS), ProCure Art, PlantMed, etc. Dr. Kogan is the founder and chair of the board of AIM Health Institute a non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that provides integrative medicine services to low-income and terminally ill patients regardless of their ability to pay. Dr. Kogan is also the founder and Medical Director of MK Cognition Institute, a DC-based organization for helping patients with Alzheimer’s disease identify and correct underlying metabolic drivers with the intention of slowing or even reversing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Kogan not only has a busy clinical integrative and geriatric practice at the GW hospital, and the GWCIM and at MKCI, he also makes home visits.
Dr. Kogan currently serves as medical director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine, associate director of the Geriatrics and Integrative Medicine Fellowships and director of the Integrative Medicine Track program at the George Washington University School of Medicine and works part-time faculty at the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, and GW Center for Aging, Health and Humanities.
In addition to his academic roles at GW University, Dr. Kogan serves on national boards and organizations including: the American Board of Integrative Medicine within the American Board of Physician Subspecialists (ABPS), ProCure Art, PlantMed, etc. Dr. Kogan is the founder and chair of the board of AIM Health Institute a non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that provides integrative medicine services to low-income and terminally ill patients regardless of their ability to pay. Dr. Kogan is also the founder and Medical Director of MK Cognition Institute, a DC-based organization for helping patients with Alzheimer’s disease identify and correct underlying metabolic drivers with the intention of slowing or even reversing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Kogan not only has a busy clinical integrative and geriatric practice at the GW hospital, and the GWCIM and at MKCI, he also makes home visits.
*CME/CEU Credits
The CME for this course has expired, however you will continue to have access to your purchased content.