Meet Our Speakers (Prelimary)
Doron Garfinkel
Chair, Appropriate Medication Use in the Elderly Conference,
Head, Center for Appropriate Medication Use, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer; Medical Director, Assuta Homecare Hospice, Israel
Lecture title:
The benefits of breaking the guidelines – linking real EBM, patient-centred medicine & patients' values
Ohad Avny
Director, Beit Hakerem Clinic, Hospice Care Unit, Clalit Health Services Jerusalem District;
Department of Family Medicine and Clinical Teacher - Medical Humanities Program, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Lecture title:
Thoughts on guidelines, prognostication, and clinical sense in the management of medical care for the elderly in a primary clinic
Shiran Cohen
Clinical Pharmacist, Israel Elwyn (IE), Shaare Zedek Medical
Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Lecture title:
Polypharmacy of neuro-psychiatric medications in patients with intellectual disabilities: Change is possible
Ehud Grossman
Professor of Medicine
Head, Internal Medicine wing,
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Lecture title:
Personalized approach to blood pressure treatment in the very elderly
Anat Kaplun
Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Lecture title:
Effect of guided imagery on musculoskeletal pain
Alon Margalit
Developer & Academic Director of CoMed, "Ofek" institute for Bio-Psycho-Social Education in Medicine, Israel
Lecture title:
CoMed as an effective approach in reducing poly pharmacy
Yael Orion
Director, Geriatric Internal Medicine Department, Sourasky, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lecture title:
Older and wiser about pain - Introduction
Itamar Raz
Medical Director, Diabetes Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Head, Israeli Council of Diabetes,
Israel
Lecture title:
Diabetes in the elderly - State of the art
Michal Schwartz
Professor of Neuroimmunology
Department of Brain Sciences
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Recipient of the 2023 Israel Prize in Life Sciences, Israel
Lecture title:
Transforming understanding of brain immunity: Harnessing the immune system to defeat Alzheimer’s Disease
Daphna Shefet
Director of Geriatric Psychiatry and Coordinator of Ambulatory Services in Shalvata Mental Health Center (Clalit), Hod Hasharon, Israel
Oren Tene
Psychiatrist, Vice-Chair of the Psychiatric Division and Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lecture title:
Mild Neurocognitive Disorder (MCI): Looking past memory
Simon Vulfsons
Director, Institute for Pain Medicine, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
Lecture title:
Non pharmacological pain management
Shimona Yosselson Superstine
Division of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Lecture title:
Cannabis use as a possible cardiovascular risk factor in the old
Head, Department of Medicine 'B' & Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Lecture title:
How can cannabis assist controlling polypharmacy in rheumatology
Istanbul University
Istanbul Medical School (İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi)
Department of Internal Medicine (İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı)
Division of Geriatrics (Geriatri Bilim Dalı), Istanbul, Turkiye
Lecture title:
Turkish inappropriate medication use in the elderly (TIME) criteria to improve prescribing in older adults: TIME-to-STOP/TIME-to-START
Shiraz Doron Shay
Geriatric Department, Ichilov Hospital, Israel
Lecture title:
Exploring the barriers and enablers of sleep medication deprescribing in older adults
Vered Hermush
Medical Director, Geriatric Wing, Laniado Hospital, Netanya, Israel
Lecture title:
Cannabis as a treatment for dementia
Amos D. Korczyn
CONy President
Department of Neurology,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv,
Israel
Lecture title:
Is Alzheimer’s disease a disease?
Emily G. McDonald
Associate Professor of Medicine and the Associate Chair of Quality and Safety for the Department of Medicine, McGill University, in Montreal, Canada
Lecture title:
Advocating for medication appropriateness and public awareness: how the Canadian Health Authority moved beyond access and affordability
Dana Peer
Gerontologist, Occupational Therapist and Dementia Care Specialist, Israel
Lecture title:
No more “diagnose and adios”: Physician – caregiver partnering in dementia care.
Head, Institute for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Metabolism,
Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba,
Israel
Lecture title:
The right treatment for the right patient
Aviv Segev
Head, Center for Advanced Diagnostics & Treatment of Psychotic Disorder, Shalvata Mental Health Center, Hod Hasharon, Israel
Lecture title:
Beyond 'start low - go slow': It's safer to taper: dose reduction and deprescribing of antipsychotics
Oren Shibolet
Director, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tel Aviv Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lecture title:
The history of proton pump inhibitors-past, present and future
Deputy Director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Lecture title:
The risk and the risk-benefit: Fracture prediction in patients with osteoporosis
Martin Wehling
Professor em. of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Lecture title:
Who protects physicians and patients from guidelines?
Andrej Zeyfang
Medical Director. Department of Internal Medicine Diabetology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Medius Kliniken Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany
Lecture title:
Insulin therapy in the elderly
School of Nutritional Science
Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Lecture title:
Potential impact of implementing a digital meal tracking system on health and personalized
nutrition for elderlies
Audiology Coordinator, Audiocenter Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Lecture title:
The elderly patient and the state of the art of the new ear 3D laser scanners
Aviva Elad
Founder & Director, "Ofek" Institute for Bio-Psycho-Social Education in Medicine by CoMed Approach, Israel
Lecture title:
A case presentation demonstrating the strength of ‘CoMed’ in reducing
extreme poly pharmacy
Rivka Inzelberg
Specialist in Neurology
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and the Sagol School
of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lecture title:
Medication use in the dementia of Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia
Yoram Maaravi
Department of Geriatric Medicine & Rehabilitation of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centers, Jerusalem, Israel
Lecture title:
PPI in the elderly-How did we get this far?
Gabriela Mizrahi
Reuth Hospital and Maccabi Health Services. Sports Medicine/Secretary and Instructor of the Israeli Society of Musculoskeletal Medicine (ISMM)
Lecture title:
Therapeutic options for musculoskeletal pain in a pain clinic
Tammy Porat-Packer
Hospital Deputy Director & Head of the Multidisciplinary Innovation Team, Shoham Medical Center, Pardes Hanna, Israel
Lecture title:
Zooming in on innovation for the elderly
Vanessa Rouach
Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lecture title:
Vitamin D: less is more
Natalie Shalit
Director, Pain Management Unit for the Elderly, Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Lecture title:
Israeli guidelines for pharmacological treatment of pain in the elderly
Rotem Tellem
Head, Palliative Care Unit, Geriatric Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lecture title:
Safe and effective use of opioids in older adults
Roie Tzadok
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lecture title:
Proton pump inhibitors long term use-trends and patterns over 15 years of a large health maintenance organization
Dana Weiner
Director, Division of Nutrition, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
Lecture title:
Weight your medication - how does body composition affects your reaction to drugs
