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SEMINAR EXAMINES PHARMACOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN LONG TERM
CARE
ATHENS,
Ohio - What are the clinical pharmacy considerations in long
term care? Antibiotic and drug therapy, as well as bacterial
resistance, will be discussed at a seminar for health-care
professionals sponsored by the Ohio University
College
of Osteopathic Medicine
(OU-COM) on Sept. 20. The session will be held at O'Bleness
Memorial Hospital, Room B-9, from noon to 1 p.m.
Jeffrey
Palm, R. Ph., Pharm D., Ph.D., a clinical consultant
pharmacist with Vrable Health Care Services, will discuss
the topic. He is also the director of Outcomes Research at
Clinicare Inc. All health-care professionals are invited to
the program. Lunch trays and brown bags are welcome.
Physicians, social workers, counselors and nurses can
receive one hour of continuing education credit for
attendance. For more information call the Geriatric
Education Center at (740) 593-2258.
Sponsors
include the Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Department,
the Ohio University Counselor Education Program and the
Western Reserve Geriatric Education Center and the Area
Health Education Center.
The event
is part of OU-COM's fall 1999 continuing education series on
geriatric medicine and gerontology, held on the first and
third Mondays of each month from noon to 1 p.m. at O'Bleness
Memorial Hospital, Room No. B-9. The Sept. 20 seminar is the
first in the fall series.
"The
seminars are designed for an interdisciplinary audience,"
said Suzanne Croci, OU-COM geriatric education coordinator.
"Health professionals from the community regularly attend,
in addition to interns, residents and medical students.
Members of the public are welcome as well."
Croci said
the seminar series was started by a federal grant that
established OU-COM as a contributing site to the Western
Reserve Geriatric Education Center in September 1994 and has
supported many continuing education programs. Provided by
the Department of Health and Human Services, the grant
supports educational programs in geriatrics and gerontology
for physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors and other
health-care providers to 22 Southeastern Ohio
counties.
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