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Course

Best of ACTHIV® 2024: Aging with HIV and the Challenge of Multimorbidity

Details

Published Date: 09/13/2024

Expiration Date: 09/15/2025

CE Credit: CME:1CNE: 1

Description

Selected by attendees and the program planning committee as one of the best sessions of the ACTHIV® 2024 conference for the frontline HIV care team, this activity will focus on multimorbidity and its implications in the care of older people with HIV as well as approaches to screening for and managing multimorbidity and aging-related syndromes for the care team.

Presenter(s)

Eugenia L. Siegler,MD

Eugenia L. Siegler, MD, is the Mason Adams Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is an associate program director for the medical residency at the Weill Cornell Campus of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where she is a teaching attending on the inpatient geriatric service and sees geriatric outpatients. Dr. Siegler is a geriatrics consultant to NYPH-Weill Cornell’s HIV practice, the Center for Special Studies. A member of the Medical Care Criteria Committee (MCCC) for the New York State AIDS Institute (AI) Clinical Guidelines Program and the AI’s Clinical Quality Advisory Committee, she was the 2023 recipient of the AI’s annual Linda Laubenstein Clinical Excellence Award. She serves on the Scientific Committee of the International Workshop on HIV and Aging. After receiving her undergraduate degree in Biochemical Sciences from Princeton University, Dr. Siegler obtained her MD from Johns Hopkins. She trained in Internal Medicine at Bellevue and New York University Hospitals, where she was intern, resident, and chief resident. Following residency, Dr. Siegler completed her fellowship in general internal medicine and geriatrics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the changing demographics of HIV and comorbidity burden
  • Explain multimorbidity and its implications in the care of older people with HIV and other long-term survivors
  • Discuss approaches to screening and management of multimorbidity and aging-related syndromes with your care team

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