September 24 - Yasamin Miller, M.Sc.
Director, Survey Research Institute (SRI)
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
"What the Cornell University Survey Institute Can Do For You?"
October 18 - Ashok Bharucha, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Clinical Epidemiology of Behavioral Symptoms in Nursing Home Settings"
November 8 - Michael B. Friedman, LMSW
Chairman, Geriatric Mental Health Alliance of New York
New York, New York
"Meeting the Mental Health Challenges of the Elder Boom"
December 6 - Catherine A. Sarkisian MD, MSPH
Assistant Professor
UCLA Division of Geriatrics
Los Angeles, California
"Frailty: Update and Current Controversies"
January 23 - Catherine A. Sarkisian, MD, MSPH
Assistant Professor
UCLA Division of Geriatrics
Los Angeles, California
"Can Expectations about Aging Make a Difference? Attempting to Raise Physical Activity Levels among Sedentary Older Adults"
February 28 -James Avery MD, FACP, FCCP, FAAHPM
Senior Medical Director
VNSNY Hospice Care, New York City
"Spirituality and Medicine: Friends or Enemies?"
March 13-Brie Williams, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
UCSF Division of Geriatrics
San Francisco, CA
"When Geriatrics and the Law Collide: Older Adult Contact with the Legal System?"
April 24 - Ellen K. Ritchie, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College-New York Presbyterian Hospital
"Treatment Decision Making in Older Patients with AML"
May 29 - Jia Ruan , MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Hematology and Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical College
"Current Concepts in Biology and Management of Lymphoma in the Elderly"
June 5 - Carolyn Hullick, MD
Director of Emergency Medicine
Division of Emergency Medicine
John Hunter Hospital
New Lambton-New South Wales, Australia
"Understanding the ER Experience of Older Patients and Their Caregivers?"
June 26 - Robert C. Abrams, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical College
“Elderly Suicide and Homicide Victims in New York City”



