Wyoming Center on Aging
1000 E. University Ave, Dept 3415
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2829
Fax: (307) 766-2847
Email: wycoa@uwyo.edu
Providing support to providers who care for older adults by creating a network of colleagues in the Rocky Mountain region with ease of access to a geriatric specialist care team.
PROFESSIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS ARE AVAILABLE
Participation is free, students are welcome!
Through the UW ECHO in Geriatrics, sponsored by the Wyoming Center on Aging healthcare professionals throughout the region have the opportunity to receive best-practice recommendations for consideration in management of older adults. You are invited to present challenging cases for discussion and feedback to a network of colleagues as well as a specialist care team. Each ECHO network will also feature a brief community discussion on a variety of important topics related to geriatrics.
Project ECHO is a virtual model for lifelong medical learning and collaborative practice that links frontline healthcare providers with specialist care teams to manage patients who have chronic conditions requiring complex care.
Learning Objectives: Develop a network of geriatric care practitioners. Create hubs of geriatric expertise in the Rocky Mountain Region. Implement best practices for geriatric patients. Identify strategies to assess and address the 4Ms (What Matters, Mentation, Mobility, Medication) of geriatric healthcare.
To join this community of practice contact: wycoa@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-2829
Our Specialist Care team:
Emma Bjore, MD. Geriatrician, Ivinson Medical Group, Ivinson Medical Group: Laramie, WY
Tonja Woods, PharmD, BCGP. Geriatric Pharmacist, UW Clinical Associate Professor: Laramie, WY
Mary Kerber, MD. Neurologist, Cheyenne Medical Specialists: Cheyenne, WY
Maya Pignatore, PhD. Psychologist, Omaha VAMC: Omaha, NE
Parnika Saxena, MD. Geriatric Psychiatry: Stanford, CA
Paige Hector, LMSW. Gerontologist: Arizona
AND YOU!
Thursdays 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm MT
A biweekly case conference plus educational presentation
UW ECHO in Geriatrics Format:
12:00pm-12:05pm: Introductions & Welcome
12:05pm-12:30pm: 25-minute Community Discussion
12:30pm-12:55pm: 25-minute Case Presentation
12:55pm-1:00pm: Closing & Evaluations
January-April 2025: "Elder Justice"
In Partnership with the Department of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
January 23rd: Providers Role in Detection and Response. Laura Mosqueda, MD
February 6th: Screening and Documentation of Elder Abuse. Theresa Sivers-Teixeira, PA-C
February 20th: Elder Justice in Cognitively Compromised Populations. Bonnie Olsen, PhD
March 6th: Intervention and Response to Elder Justice. Lori Mars, JD, LLM and Sarah Gustin, BA
March 20th: Artificial Intelligence and Scams. Sam Humway, AARP-WY
NEW! April 3rd: Decision-Making Questions: Assessing Capacity in Medical Settings. Maya Pignatore, PhD
April - June 2025: "Supporting Access to Rural Geriatric Care"
April 17th: Virtual Reality Suicide Risk Assessment Training
May 1st: Suicide Risk Assessment: VR Showcase *topic change
May 15th: Utilizing Community Paramedicine to Implement Care Coordination
May 29th: Addressing Barriers to Care in Rural Areas & Telehealth Policy Update
June 12th: Improving Dementia Care Through Community Collaboration
June 26th: Communicare-A Tool to Support Community Linkage
and more coming July!
Starting in Fall 2024, the UW ECHO in Geriatrics will be hosted on the new iECHO content management platform. Registering for and joining sessions now requires an iECHO account. You'll be prompted to create your account when you register the first time. Sessions will still occur via Zoom, but you will access the Zoom link through the iECHO platform. The iECHO platform will allow you to: directly connect to Zoom to join a session, access all session materials, and register one time for all sessions.
To join this community of practice, register to join the UW ECHO in Geriatrics NOW!
*Previous sessions available for viewing. Contact WyCOA to view previous presentations and recordings. Please allow 2 weeks after each session to review.
Would you and your team like case consultation on a challenging case?
Do you have limited access to geriatric specialists in your area?
We welcome your presentation of cases for consultation at our upcoming networks!
Benefits of presenting a case: Free case consultation from geriatric experts in their field including sharing of resources including evidence based practice strategies to assist you in your routine practice, increased geriatric knowledge and outcomes, connecting to the geriatric care community of practice by learning and sharing similar challenges, Continuing Education credits, and networking with other geriatric care professionals.
*PLEASE NOTE that Project ECHO® case consultations do not create or otherwise establish a provider-case relationship between any UW ECHO in Geriatrics clinician and any person whose case is being presented in a Project ECHO® setting.
Quotes from participating spokes:
“The case consultation process was very valuable in helping us get the opinions from those outside our immediate organization. The process itself helped us gather all the pertinent info for this resident and take a better look at the big picture for her!”
Thank you so much! It was very helpful and we love the recommendations. Appreciate the support and the UW ECHO in Geriatrics Team!"
"It was wonderful to hear about a case that so many of us can relate to and process it with other professionals. I learned about new resources possibly available/available to set up."
Student experience: "I am a first year physical therapy student at the University of Montana. I have attended a couple of your zoom seminars with UW ECHO in Geriatrics. I wanted to thank you for the opportunity to sit in on these meetings. They are inspiring and have really been teaching me about interprofessional communication as well as giving me an insight into the depth of thought and focus into each individual scenario."
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of University of Wyoming and Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is accredited by the Colorado Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Cheyenne Regional Medical Center designates this presentation for a maximum of (1.0) AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit that commensurate with the extent of their participation.
1.0 Contact hours will be awarded upon attendance of the entire activity and completion of the evaluation. There is no relevant financial relationship with an ineligible organization for anyone with the ability to control content of this activity. Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
WyCOA can provide a Certificate of Completion to all other disciplines.
Wyoming Center on Aging
1000 E. University Ave, Dept 3415
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2829
Fax: (307) 766-2847
Email: wycoa@uwyo.edu