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Experts at the symposium "Innovating Elder Justice" said it's critical for legal systems to be able to identify. report, and prevent abuse among older adults.
- May 25, 2023
At the recent American Geriatrics Society’s (AGS) Annual Scientific Meeting, Yale School of Medicine’s Departments of Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Surgery, along with Yale School of Nursing and Yale New Haven Health’s Northeast Medical Group, had an impressive showing, hosting 30 poster presentations, talks, and breakout sessions.
- March 29, 2023
For the second year in a row, the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at the Yale School of Medicine ranked first in the nation in research dollars awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as tabulated by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
- September 22, 2022
Samah Fodeh, PhD, assistant professor of emergency medicine and biostatistics, recently joined the Bridge2AI program. Funded by the NIH’s Common Fund, the aim of the program is to tackle challenging medical problems and accelerate discovery through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). As one of the co-principal investigators, Fodeh will help develop training modules that connect the use of AI to the biomedical field.
- March 16, 2022Source: WNPR
On this hour of Where We Live, we hear from Fuad Abujarad, PhD., the principal investigator of VOICES, the digital tool, on the scope of the initiative. Faud talks about a psycho-educational model intended to motivate patients to acknowledge that they are victims of abuse – if the tool and case workers identify abuse, and then, to encourage them to report it to their providers. Plans are underway to expand the offering to primary care centers.
- February 17, 2022Source: Yale News
In the United States, 5% to 10% of adults 65 and older are victims of elder abuse and mistreatment, public health experts say. Yet only one in 24 cases is ever identified. One of the barriers is a basic misunderstanding of just what constitutes mistreatment, which prevents many victims from reporting abuse.
- January 13, 2019
The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Yale School of Medicine kicked off the start of a new project to combat elder mistreatment (EM) with a community event at Monterey Place in New Haven, Connecticut on Friday, Jan. 4.
- August 09, 2018
The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) is excited to announce that Fuad Abujarad, PhD, was a presenter at the 2018 mHealth Technology Showcase on June 4th at the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
- May 22, 2017
A Yale-led team of researchers have developed an electronic application tool that puts patients at the center of a decision about an overused medical test: the CAT or CT scan. If it pans out in wider pilot testing, the innovative app could inform the way that health technology tools are developed and used by physicians and patients, said lead author Dr. Ted Melnick.